Thursday, May 31, 2007
Scott and Stott
With the famously enigmatic Scott Walker giving interviews left, right and centre these days, I found myself idly musing about Wally Stott, the genius arranger behind many of his best songs. Whatever became of Wally, I wondered? The somewhat hair-raising answer is here. Food for thought...
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Did you get Scott W's last album, The Drift, Nige? I bought it but I admit one listen has proved enough for me.
ReplyDeleteGave up on him long ago, Andrew - but still enjoy the old stuff once in a while (on vinyl). It is/was a great voice, and Wally/Angela a great arranger.
ReplyDeleteFirst Wilson, Kepple & Betty, and now Wally "I Used to be a Man" Scott. Esoteric realms. I think a good pointer towards art is to ask oneself that question of how would the Nazis have judged it, and I fear Wally would have to be judged degenerate.
ReplyDeleteAnd Scott Walker a vinyl kind of person all right. Have you got his new album, The Drift? It's great- I listen to it all the time.
Sorry- just checked again, Wally STott. Amazing arranger all right...stuff like Boychild.
ReplyDeleteBit bizarre Scott Walker & Wally Stott, in fact very bizarre...I'm referring to the strange mirror image similarity between two very rare names, be they stage or not.
I mean that Scott Walker & Wally Stott would have worked together, not that the existence of the two names in themselves is bizarre Half an exclamation mark.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, if you don't mind my interrupting you, I'm curious to know more about Wally/Angela. I wonder if s/he was inspired to do his/her sex change by James/Jan Morris who had hers done in 1972. I'm convinced the unconscious mind -- the creative mind -- often embodies the opposite sex. (I know I write more than half of my short stories from a male p.o.v.) I wonder if for Stott/Morley and Morris there was even more to it-- something to do with England in those years?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you guys -- I mean *lads* -- think? And where are the gals -- I mean *birds* (is that word still used?) -- in this discussion? All genders and sexualities, feel free to add to the discussion.
my two bits, susan - it's all bollocks.
ReplyDeleteYes, but what if the bollocks has been removed, Ian?
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