ジェフリー・ライトのインスタグラム(jfreewright) - 1月12日 02時16分

My friend Ascanio Sharpe, my brother, died a year-and-a-half before I started Basquiat. In the weeks after his death, Hunky Dory, cranked to 11 and filling the apartment we'd shared, helped me mourn, eulogizing him and strangely comforting me. Butchering the words, I'd sing "So softly a supergod dies!" When I met David, I was painting. He came into Schnabel's studio & knelt beside me as I explored for JMB in the colors, figures, words. "Mind me watching?" he asked? "Guess I'd better get used to it," I responded, and we laughed together - good beginning. Weeks later, we started filming. I'd planned to find the moment in which to explain to him how much his music had helped me with Ascanio - how much his music meant to me generally, but David, I’d realize, wasn't much for looking back; he had a new album coming, "Outside." On one of his first mornings on set, he stepped inside the hair/make-up trailer with music in his pocket. Gary Oldman, the hair/make-up folks, me - "Wanna hear some new music?" he asks. Huh? Fuck yeah. He stuffs a cassette in, "A Small Plot of Land," disjointed & driving, falling & rising at once, oddly elegiac. His voice blows in and then an abstracted guitar, Reeves Gabrels, he says excited - bending, wailing...bad as shit - and David standing there air-guitaring (air-guitaring!) & leading us through it by our ears like a hyper-sophisticated, fun kid turning you on to some obscure Bowie he'd just found. You hearing this? Yeah, man.

That song wound up in the film. The entire album seemed accidental, operatic subtext to Basquiat...to Ascanio and so, I suppose, to me. How had that happened? Wild. How’d he do that? Magic.
Poor soul
He never knew what hit him
And it hit him so
He pushed back the pigmen
Poor soul
Poor soul

Just after we wrapped, "Outside" was released, and David toured with NIN. I went to see him out in Jersey. Not many in the audience knew the album well, but for me, it was family, and that night, again, his voice cried out personal secrets to me. I don't think I ever explained to him what I wanted to explain - not with words & conversation anyway. But he got it. He knew. He knew so many of us.
Thank you, David. Be free.

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する