Sun Ra documentay last night
 

There was a documentary on BBC2 last night (this is old news) called "Sun Ra: Brother from Another Planet",which had a couple of comments by Thrusting Moron.
I never knew anything about Sun Ra before watching the thing, I only watched it cus he's mentioned in Trilogy from DN, but he seems legendarily unusual in his approach to music making.


It was a cool doumentay, and Thurston spoke about Sun Ra grabbing Thurston's shoulders in the middle of a show and saying 'Play the Cosmos Song'. Anybody else see it, or have any thoughts/fantasies regarding Sun Ra?

I'm annoyed I didn't see it. No-one told me it was on. Sun Ra is ace though. Mental as a box of frogs, but ace nontheless.

It was on BBC3 last year, and yeah, I saw it.

You can watch it here, to be exact: http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=5865

We watched a few clips of "Space is the Place" in my black studies class last year. Pretty interesting guy. Still not very familiar with his music though. But I guess I should check some of it out. Anyone know where I should start?

fucking great watch. pure fluke i switched it on just as it started!

I watched it on google video a while ago. I really like the stuff he did with June Tyson in the Arkestra.

damn you english. first the courtney love documentary and now this? you just have to have everything, don't you?