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True. Wolstenholme's passing was indeed a most tragic one, not least on knowing how hard (and for how long) he allegedly attempted to overcome his depressions.
You've heard the following, right? It's a perfect example of that mood you're descibing, and also an illustration as to the strange attraction and mystique of melancholy:
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
It has been said by those close to 'Woolly' that the long and ultimately fruitless 'Mockingbird' court-case by Robert John Godfrey was one of the major triggers for his long, heightened battle with depression in later life. He first made a suicide attempt in the early 2000s. I didn't know anything about his struggle until after his death. If you see footage of him from when he returned to John Lees' version of the band, he's always the joker on-stage, and I took that at face value, when all too often the opposite is true.Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor
I have heard the Motherlight song, it's tremendous. The other track I know of theirs offhand is 'House Of Many Windows'.
It's a quite ordinary trait for people struggling with certain types of depression to act out the 'clown routine' as an active identity antithesis. There are several books written on this subject, some of them academic in nature. There's also a fairly well known documentary about depression among comedians, until recently available to watch on YT.
As for the Bobak-Jons-Malone record, "Meadow-Lea" and "Many Windows" are actually the best tunes on there.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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