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dr wu23 
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 Posted: May 01 2018 at 14:39 |
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Well...... two 'weirdos' that come to mind are Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson.......both strange and eccentric by anyone's definition...not sure how 'proggy' either one is.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 15:16 |
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Roger Wotton of Comus.. He may well be an very ordinary bloke but he certainly had some slightly bonkers ideas going on in his head.. Roy Harper, without a doubt, has always been an eccentric. Alex Harvey was a pretty crazy chap!
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 15:21 |
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 16:49 |
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 17:00 |
I am surprised you didn't mention Holger Czukay. |
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 17:14 |
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 18:22 |
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Posted: May 01 2018 at 18:33 |
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Galas and Gira!
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Posted: May 02 2018 at 15:23 |
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Aha! Ivor Cutler!! Now there was an eccentric chap.. Saw him in perform the mid/late 70's on a school 5th form visit to the local theatre.. very odd! Ron Geesin, now he's another unusual character!
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Posted: May 03 2018 at 11:56 |
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Posted: May 03 2018 at 12:48 |
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Definately Viv Stanshall RIP! Ive watched a lot of Cardiacs videos on youtube & listened to a couple of lps and, ok, now i'm convinced. Did see 'em at Stonehenge many years ago but was pretty whacked and didn't get it then or the odd times my path has crossed theirs since but after some intensive immersion recently its sort of clicked..
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Posted: May 03 2018 at 13:19 |
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Stanshall is an excellent pick.
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The whole concept of Maudlin of the Well's music is pretty bizarre.
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Posted: May 05 2018 at 07:49 |
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I'd say that Igorrr tends to be pretty eccentric, with albums combining so many styles that it simply becomes absurd, while still sounding pretty decent in its own strange way. The only major consistencies are the inclusion of baroque and breakcore in the majority of the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzYxGZ7Hmc
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Posted: January 31 2019 at 05:26 |
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This thread has all the makings of a thread that is going to be peopled by strange/eccentric artists that actually didn't create prog music......  Also strange and eccentric are wildly different and both extremely wide ranging. So one man's Arthur Brown is another man's Robert Wyatt, if you get my drift. In other words, great creativity and great resultant creations don't always come from strange,eccentric, substance abused or mentally ill minds.
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Posted: January 31 2019 at 09:41 |
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Captain Beefheart
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Posted: January 31 2019 at 10:36 |
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Henry Cow (and freakin' awful, to boot).
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Posted: January 31 2019 at 12:28 |
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Roger Chapman from Family. Who the heck else sang like that? :P I've heard his voice described as sounding like a goat in heat. :D
Also, has Jon Anderson been mentioned yet? Not as "out there" as some on here but his philosophies as well as the way he dressed in the eighties should qualify him for a mention(imo). Also, Rush for the way they dressed in the mid 70's and Neil Peart in particular who at times seemed to border on plain antisocial.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Posted: January 31 2019 at 12:46 |
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^ Roger Chapman was really inspired by Soul and Gospel along with some of the contemporary R&B singers of the mid-late 60's and just wanted to emulate his hero's sound and was rather perplexed by the way people reacted to his voice and his stage presence.. he's actually a relatively quiet, fairly normal self effacing bloke.. who just happens to look, act and sound like a crazed maniac! Family in general were a pretty eccentric sounding band but were all pretty straight forward guys.. I still hold Viv Stanshall to be the quintessential eccentric gentleman; it wasn't an act, he was what he was and in Bristol (UK) his legacy still reverberates through the Arts and music communities.
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