Musicians who are also artists, writers, painters, publishers etc

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John Squire obvs. Also Justine Frischmann from Elastica. What about some proper musicians, i hear you screech. OK, Goldie. 3D from the 'attack (their star is rising recently huh, cos of the colston thing?). Daniel Johnston. Captain Beefheart?
Publishers: Pariah Press is MCR is run by some former band, never heard of em.
Who else?
 

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john squire music and flowers

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The Beastie Boys have done all sorts. Bob Dylan wrote a weird book called Tarantula. The RZA directs films. Morrissey's written a terrible novel. Eno's built an app. David Byrne's done a ton of stuff.
 

padraig (u.s.)

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Basquiat was in a no wave band with none other than a young Vincent Gallo

"no wave" here referring to the scene/attitude rather than the sound, no guitar skronk to be found

this is their best track, a gauzy construct that would easily fit into a lower-tempo Balearic type playlist or set
 

padraig (u.s.)

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Basquiat also famously "produced" - unclear exactly what that meant in this case - the immortal "Beat Bop" by Rammellzee as well providing the cover art

and Rammellzee himself was, of course, primarily a visual (or sculptural? idk, the masks and stuff) artist himself

a ton of Downtown NYC types had a foot in both visual art, installation art, performance art or whatever and music, actually

from Fluxus on thru to the peak Downtown scene years before gentrification killed that cultural space

i.e. Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Michael Snow, probably about a hundred other examples
 

padraig (u.s.)

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same goes for the Euro avant-garde of the 60s, 70s, 80s

Conrad Schnitzler was a student of Joseph Beuys

one of my personal heroes, Xenakis, not an artist per se, but trained as an architect (with Le Corbusier, no less) before becoming a composer
 

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gracias amigos.

yeah i love that rammellzee track. and i like gallo a lot generally, both his films (esp buffalo 66) and his tunes (honeybunny), although i've never really been able to get into gray. i saw gallo once in new york, at this club tonic, where i saw charles gayle, he played this amazing set but then went on a rant about abortion a the end. gallo was very obviously a star, dolled up in fur i think and about 10 people round him. hes very tall. there's been a re-release of the gray album, i put it on but not revisited.

good call on the beasties. not heard of wolfgang voigt, will check him out.

i like yoko ono as well, that tune 'dogtown' she did, and bits of pineapple are very amusing.

nick cave? i don't really like him but he writes books doesn't he? i saw him as well once, in this video shop in notting hill, he was returning a tape late, had a lot of fines. very tall and skinny.
 

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it's at the level you might see displayed in a random shop front commerical gallery in a provincial town somewhere
 
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