this was cool.
damo's band was selected by a lottery from out of the audience. musicians in the audience had put their names in hats labelled "drums", "bass", "guitarists" etc.
this could have been a disaster BUT damo has some kind of life-force. ENERGY! i believe that he carries round him some kind of expectation of other people's behaviour. therefore the randomly picked band members (with the exception of the saxophonist who wouldn't stop blowing) filled in the gaps around him alloted in this schema. and it actually sounded pretty great!
illuminating because this must have been what happened in some part with CAN. ok, so holger was a MASTER - and in truth was probably THEE guiding force behind CAN - but barring him none of the rest of the band made good records solo. and as a band they only made good records when damo was there.