RIP Jaki Liebezeit

[Beef Oven!]

Thanks for everything, Jaki. RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38716464

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks for everything, Jaki. RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38716464

Sad news.

Very influential - Can, collaborations with Eno and Jah Wobble, picked up on by Primal Scream.

I was going to post "Vitamin C" which is a favourite but I couldn't find a good link on YT.

Not sure exactly how the motorik beat developed - the order of events - him and Neu! etc.

Anyhow, here's "I Want More" on TOTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0nfjguTclg

(ironic and not wholly representative - I remember it well)

RIP Jaki Liebezeit

[MrGongGong]

RIP

[MrGongGong]

Or even

[Richard Barrett]

Yes, a unique contribution to music with resonances far outside the areas he was actually active in, much imitated but never equalled. Which reminds me I have Can's Lost Tapes box set sitting around, enthusiastically acquired when it came out but unaccountably not yet listened to. That will have to go on this evening.