Limp Basquiat: visual artists & music

andy's 22 minute single "Uh yes, uh n o"

My, another chance to mention Julie Doiron, yippee. Julie's wonderful photographer and they made a small book with poetry by a local writer. The press catalogue info on the book. It will never be big, it will never be famous but its the best visual art by a musician I've been able to see.

Worst visual art by a musician=Paul McCartney's paintings

I like Becks stuff. But i bet thats his grandfather.

I think Malcolm Mooney, Can's first singer, was a sculptor (if I'm remembering correctly). But of course, he's much more well-known as Can's first singer, so...

Errrrrrr......... John Squire???

Although Andy Warhol was not exactly the 'producer' of the first VU alb - it's really the work of Tom Wilson, who also produced Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Zappa etc. - he certainly acted as enthusiast/visual consultant etc.

Other picks - Michael Snow, experimental filmmaker and improv pianist; William Eggleston, masterful colour photographer to the rock glitterati (Big Star, Primal Scream, erm Green on Red)and synth player; turntabalist Christian Marclay (his video 'Guitar Drag' a highlight of the Toop Sound Art exhib at the Hayward last year); comic strip and Pee Wee Herman artist Gary Panter, who did the cover to a Zappa alb and recorded a pretty good solo lp in the eighties.

Worst 'art' by big name musicians - Dylan's 'Self Portrait', or the cover to 'Star People' by Miles Davis.

Let's never forget Bowie's excreble visual art...

Destroy All Monsters & Half Japanese.

Adam Jones' job in Tool is more or less 50% guitarist, 50% artist-in-residence (does their packaging, videos, etc.), so their music is influenced by a visual artist by default. This is sort of a more direct approach than, say, having your band produced by one.

As for Beck, he does make visual art himself, as well as did his grandfather, [nominal Dadaist] Al. Beck's work isn't bad at all. His work has a very clear aesthetic, as if that wouldn't be apparent enough from 2 seconds of looking at him or listening to his music.

I like the cover to self-portrait. Haf never heard the record.

Joni Mitchell paints, dun't she? Cover to Mingus?

I know someone who paid a LOT of money for a painting by Paul Simonon. I haf not seen it, but my spy says he could not stop laffing when HE first saw it. However like all spies he tells me what I want to hear.

Becks grandfather was a fluxous member. Now this is one of the few places where we could get into a flame war over fluxous, i will leave it

didn't beck's mom hang out at andy's factory?
what's wrong with fluxus, anthony?

Nothing at all. In the yoko thread we were fighting over was a member of fluxos.

andrew: Did Eggleston play on any records? I saw a very expensive, very beautiful book of his photos in a bookstore recently.

There's also Billy Childish, who seems to have dumped music almost entirely in favour of his Stuckist movement of crap painters. The stuff I've seen has been awful and their stance is reactionary, but you have to admire his tenacity.

And isn't Cornelius somehow involved in Bathing Ape? (Cue arguement re: art vs design)

Fritz: wuz semi-cheating w/Eggleston - only music I have by him is on the 'It Came From Memphis' comp that accompanied the Robert Gordon bk of the same title. Eggleston plays a 'selection' from 'Symphony 4, Bonnie Prince Charlie" (p'raps some of our more classically-inclined posters will know more abt this than me) on an electronic keyboard. It's a curio rather than his main claim to fame. Was the bk you saw 'Ancient and Modern', a superb retrospective? Eggleston also tk tons of pics of Gracelands, but have only seen a handful of 'em...

yoko ono, daniel johnston, I don't know that they're the best cause I'm not into optical art, as in don't know enough. Yoko's art like I said suffers from a lack of abstraction I think, but like I said don't know anything about it