When John Colpitts aka Kid Millions aka Man Forever aka drummer extraordinaire was involved in a horrific car accident in Los Angeles in February 2018, it was initially uncertain whether he'd ever be able to walk again, let alone get back behind a kit. But he made a full recovery and, as he told Stevie Chick, has a positive outlook on his brush with death and all that has happened since.
By 2019, on tour as Man Forever, he was channelling his experience into a drums-'n'-spoken-word piece. In truth, I found it a little underwhelming at the Moon in Cardiff that December - but no doubt he was still figuring out how to process the incident, thinking aloud with sticks in hand. Three years on, and it's become a record, Music From The Accident, created and completed with the help of friends - a challenging and painful endeavour but one that he felt compelled to undertake and that has proven therapeutic.
Chick's Quietus article doubles up as a portrait of pre-gentrification Brooklyn (think Sonic Youth's Manhattan of the late 1970s/early 1980s) and a great primer for someone like me who has only ever briefly dabbled in the enormous back catalogue of the band that Colpitts founded, Oneida - as well as a reminder of just how many cult acts he's performed with over the years: Spiritualized, Boredoms, Black Mountain, Royal Trux, White Hills...
It probably only scratches the surface on that front - there's no mention of Ex-Models, for instance, for whom Colpitts was playing when they came to Oxford in May 2008. That show, at the Cellar (RIP), was quite something.
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