tlw
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Apply for a job with the Sun Ra Arkestra, you'd fit in seamlessly.
I've seen them once, which is at least twice too often in my opinion. On the plus side, if you're a festival organiser looking for an act to put on last to clear the punters out of the field there are few to match them.
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Gotta disagree with you there. I first saw him in Madison in the mid-70s, and then a couple of times in Chicago in the early 80s. I loved the African instruments and singers. They were bomb. Sun Ra would come out after however long, head wrapped, with a bunny-ears antenna in the wrap. So yeah, he was way out there.
All 3 of the shows started after midnight, and those were the days of primo Colombian (leaf and pink or blue powder (or white, if you weren't well connected)), so I do need to cop to a charge of LUI (Listening Under the Influence).
That said, I was clean sober when I bought his albums and CDs. Still play them from time to time.
Like today, there was plenty of formula music in the late 70s and early 80s. Sun Ra was a breath of fresh air to me.
After all, I am The Maartian!
