Ruddy Yurts RIP

[existentialist]

As I imagine that everyone except me had already realised, today marks the 7th anniversary of this thread, and of Ruddy's alleged death/date last seen.

I, for one, will be raising a glass of Ruddy's signature absinthe/white spirit/paint thinners and coke (the powdered kind) cocktail when the sun has passed the yardarm tonight.

 

[Cid]

Will be sticking this on:

 

[Santino]

Settled on this for tonight's entertainment. Have also grown out my moustache in tribute.

 

[Santino]

Also sad to note that the Canadian-Peruvian electric flautist Awa Y'Goals passed away this week.

 

[existentialist]

Settled on this for tonight's entertainment. Have also grown out my moustache in tribute.

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Good point. I've got some obscure thing I haven't properly listened to yet...

 

[billy_bob]

Settled on this for tonight's entertainment. Have also grown out my moustache in tribute.

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I always felt Skeeter 'Zip' Beltway's contribution to that album was underrated. Playing two accordions at the same time might sound gimmicky but it takes real skill, and the results are really evocative of his small-town Panhandle upbringing. Anyone know the truth of why he took out an injunction to prevent Ruddy from naming him on the sleeve notes?

 

[existentialist]

I always felt Skeeter 'Zip' Beltway's contribution to that album was underrated. Playing two accordions at the same time might sound gimmicky but it takes real skill, and the results are really evocative of his small-town Panhandle upbringing. Anyone know the truth of why he took out an injunction to prevent Ruddy from naming him on the sleeve notes?

I think it was Ruddy's continual and deliberate mis-spelling of his name on all the previous album covers. His sense of humour was not always (or even often) appreciated by those on the receiving end. I think that crediting him as "Zit" Bellend on "Trouble At T'Mill" was the last straw.

 

[Santino]

I always felt Skeeter 'Zip' Beltway's contribution to that album was underrated. Playing two accordions at the same time might sound gimmicky but it takes real skill, and the results are really evocative of his small-town Panhandle upbringing. Anyone know the truth of why he took out an injunction to prevent Ruddy from naming him on the sleeve notes?

He also played those accordions in two different time signatures. Sometimes deliberately.

 

[billy_bob]

He also played those accordions in two different time signatures. Sometimes deliberately.

In fact, there are short passages when he's technically playing them in three different time signatures. Some musicologists still maintain that's not even possible, and yet there it is on record...

 

[Santino]

Another one bites the dust... Mason Cash-Bowles (Octet '77-'86, and one third of the Penguin Club Trio) died last night.

 

[existentialist]

Another one bites the dust... Mason Cash-Bowles (Octet '77-'86, and one third of the Penguin Club Trio) died last night.

Oh. Had he been ill?

 

[Santino]

Oh. Had he been ill?

No, fell off a window ledge. Shame, he'd beaten cancer twice too.

 

[existentialist]

No, fell off a window ledge. Shame, he'd beaten cancer twice too.

I guess beating a fall from a window ledge is a greater challenge - I imagine gravitational acceleration leaves cancer in the weeds.

What a shame, though - I take it he wasn't trying to play his marimba on the window ledge?

 

[Santino]

I guess beating a fall from a window ledge is a greater challenge - I imagine gravitational acceleration leaves cancer in the weeds.

What a shame, though - I take it he wasn't trying to play his marimba on the window ledge?

No, they got divorced years ago.

 

[Santino]

Anyone going to see Joe 'Cornish' Hedge and Devon Banks this Saturday? I heard that there might be a few surprise appearances from fellow Octet veterans.

 

[existentialist]

Anyone going to see Joe 'Cornish' Hedge and Devon Banks this Saturday? I heard that there might be a few surprise appearances from fellow Octet veterans.

I'm waiting on a gig call, but it doesn't come off, I'll be there.

 

[existentialist]

Or it doesn't, I'm going to surprise them with the intro to Parody In Gb

 

[Santino]

Anyone else playing?

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Spoiler: Answer

The C#dim9 fooled me but as soon as I heard the distinctive tambourining of Carlotta Wrack I knew it was something from Yurts Donut volume 2.

 

[hiccup]

The current line-up of Gong reminded me of some of the classic Yurts band line-ups of the past:

 

[Lord Camomile]

Every time this thread gets bumped, it's a painful reminder

 

[ska invita]

The current line-up of Gong reminded me of some of the classic Yurts band line-ups of the past:

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i wonder what a Gong gig is like these days? as in is it worth checking out

 

[hiccup]

i wonder what a Gong gig is like these days? as in is it worth checking out

My new colleague spoke very highly of recent gigs, hence me looking them up. They're a bit of an acquired taste imho.

 

[billy_bob]

I don't suppose Fabio Golfetti's any relation to Tomaso 'Tee' Golfetti, who of course played with Yurts off and on in the early 2000s, till his flirtations with Italian fascist iconography became a little too hard to ignore?

 

[Santino]

I don't suppose Fabio Golfetti's any relation to Tomaso 'Tee' Golfetti, who of course played with Yurts off and on in the early 2000s, till his flirtations with Italian fascist iconography became a little too hard to ignore?

I was under the impression that Tee Golfetti was really Nigel Plugg (formerly of The Desk Tidies), and the whole Italian persona was just a performance art piece that got out of hand.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I don’t get any of this

 

[JimW]

I don’t get any of this

Remember Ruddy saying just that with a snarl when he walked past all those bootleg T-shirt sellers on our way into the G-Mex.

 

[Santino]

Remember Ruddy saying just that with a snarl when he walked past all those bootleg T-shirt sellers on our way into the G-Mex.

Were you crew on that tour? Did you ever get paid?

 

[hitmouse]

I don’t get any of this

I wasn't a big fan of Any Of This when it first came out, but the songs are fantastic live, really changed my perspective on it.

 

[JimW]

Were you crew on that tour? Did you ever get paid?

Yes, but in apartheid era rand notes he'd had squirreled away since that disgraceful tour he did under an assumed name. As if we didn't all know who Buddy Yertz was.

 

[billy_bob]

I was under the impression that Tee Golfetti was really Nigel Plugg (formerly of The Desk Tidies), and the whole Italian persona was just a performance art piece that got out of hand.

I hadn't heard that but it makes some sense. I remember he completely mispronounced Enrico Pieranunzi's name when he introduced him at the ill-fated Canvey Island Jazz-Off in 2004.