It is a sad day in the music world. The great Wesley Willis, the man behind such classics as “Cut the Mullet” and “I Wupped Batman’s Ass” has succumbed in his battle with leukemia. A 350 pound schizophrenic from Chicago, Wesley’s music wasn’t what most people would call good, but there was just something about the man that made him pure genius. Here’s an excerpt from the article, as the site is getting slammed with visitors right now and you may not be able to get through right away:
I’m one of the lucky few who can say that they saw him live, sat down on the floor in front of him and got an affectionate, albeit hard, headbutt from him.
Rock on Chicago.
If there’s ever a Batman vs. Wesley Willis thread. Wesley would win every time.
I’ve got a bit of Wesley Willis on vinyl. It’s a 45 with Sublime on one side and him on the other. His shit was FUCKED up. Out of his mind. Shame to lose him.
My brother was on the Net last night, and saw this story. “Wesley Willis died!” he exclaimed to me. Of course, I wanted to know why… so we figured it must have been the leukemia.
Very sad news.
(we remember him best for the “Alanis Morissette” song he did a while back)
Hey, Flammy- I never would have pegged you for a Wesley Willis fan. (Don’t ask me why, since I have no idea what one looks like.)
Every heard any Shooby Taylor? For some reason I tend to stick him in the same genre with Wesley – not that they’re anything alike, apart from being completely unlike anything else in creation.
(Mods, I think it’s legally kosher to link to that song – it’s not copyrighted material. That is, Shooby never bothered to get licensing for the tunes his does his unique scat to, so the recordings are freely distributed. The unlicensed material is forgotten Hammond organ recordings of public-domain music. Is this okay? Apologies if not.)
