10 Magnificent Losers. 10 Stories That Deserve to Be Told. 9) Peter Ivers Peter Ivers' Band - Dark Illumination
Who? Peter Ivers who? Yes: he is practically unknown. Yet the Beacon Street Union is always mentioned among the seminal groups of American psychedelia from the late sixties. Okay, niche stuff, but loved by many.
Yet his solo records (4, plus 2 posthumous compilations) sold something, "Terminal Love" managed to reach the Top 100. Solo albums to rediscover, especially the first one, that "Knight Of The Blue Communion" which mixes India (Asha Phutli was supposed to sing, then they turned to Yolande Bavan - a jazz musician from Sri Lanka - and it turned out even better), psychedelia, religiosity, and blues and is one of the most beautiful and best-kept secrets of American Rock. But "Terminal Love" is also beautifully strange and deserves, it truly deserves it. Yet "Jesus, A Passion Play for Americans" (the show derived from "Knights Of The Blue Communion" is considered the precursor to "Jesus Christ Superstar"). Yet his "In Heaven" was chosen by Lynch as the key track for the "Eraserhead" soundtrack (and here, at least one eyebrow should be raised). Yet he was a friend and associate of John Belushi. Yet the show they had him present on American KSCI, "New Wave Theatre," was really groundbreaking: for the first time, bands like the Dead Kennedys, the Angry Samoans, the Plugz could appear on a national show, thanks to Ivers.
For this reason, when they found him at his home, with his head smashed by a hammer (or something similar), they immediately thought of some musician he had not allowed to participate in his show.
The truth is that no one ever figured out how it happened.
It was a famous unsolved case.
They even wrote a book about it: "In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre."
In the end, he became more famous as an unsolved crime than as a musician.
Who? Peter Ivers who? Yes: he is practically unknown. Yet the Beacon Street Union is always mentioned among the seminal groups of American psychedelia from the late sixties. Okay, niche stuff, but loved by many.
Yet his solo records (4, plus 2 posthumous compilations) sold something, "Terminal Love" managed to reach the Top 100. Solo albums to rediscover, especially the first one, that "Knight Of The Blue Communion" which mixes India (Asha Phutli was supposed to sing, then they turned to Yolande Bavan - a jazz musician from Sri Lanka - and it turned out even better), psychedelia, religiosity, and blues and is one of the most beautiful and best-kept secrets of American Rock. But "Terminal Love" is also beautifully strange and deserves, it truly deserves it. Yet "Jesus, A Passion Play for Americans" (the show derived from "Knights Of The Blue Communion" is considered the precursor to "Jesus Christ Superstar"). Yet his "In Heaven" was chosen by Lynch as the key track for the "Eraserhead" soundtrack (and here, at least one eyebrow should be raised). Yet he was a friend and associate of John Belushi. Yet the show they had him present on American KSCI, "New Wave Theatre," was really groundbreaking: for the first time, bands like the Dead Kennedys, the Angry Samoans, the Plugz could appear on a national show, thanks to Ivers.
For this reason, when they found him at his home, with his head smashed by a hammer (or something similar), they immediately thought of some musician he had not allowed to participate in his show.
The truth is that no one ever figured out how it happened.
It was a famous unsolved case.
They even wrote a book about it: "In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre."
In the end, he became more famous as an unsolved crime than as a musician.
lector
8 apr 17
DeRank ™: 29,27
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