Jamie Muir RIP

 

The first exposure to Jamie Muir the musician came to Disaster Amnesiac by way of MTV and its occasional airing of a ripping piece of Lark's Tongue In Aspic from King Crimson. Muir's presence, a mad manic energy within the matrix of a Rock band, struck out and then some. He was obviously involved within the musical actions being documented therein but at the same time he was also of some other sort. Recall Robert Fripp stating something to the effect that Muir had too much good sense to get involved with music industry, and fair enough: Jamie the persona remained somewhat obscure. That said there's an interesting Incus Records release with him and Derek Bailey exchanging ideas of the inner sort. Sometimes over the years as Lark's Tongue In Aspic has spun on my turntable, there has been pondering as to what Jamie Muir got up to after his early 1970's Rock Star turn. Did he paint? He must have! I mean come, the sounds that he coaxed from various items within that album are so much of a visual character. Whatever it was that Jamie Muir got himself involved with over the decades, here's to hoping that he found them to his satisfaction. Are those drums of his going up for sale at eBay? Or Sotheby's even?