>On January 13, Hathaway began a recording session with producers/musicians Eric Mercury and James Mtume. Each reported that although Hathaway was singing fine, he began behaving irrationally, seeming to be paranoid and delusional. According to Mtume, Hathaway said that white people were trying to kill him and had connected his brain to a machine for the purpose of stealing his music and his voice.[11] Given Hathaway's behavior, Mercury said that he decided the recording session could not continue, so he aborted it and all of the musicians went home.[11]>Hours later, Hathaway was found dead on the pavement below the window of his 15th-floor room in New York City's Essex House hotel at 160 Central Park South.[1][25] It was reported that he had jumped from his balcony.[26]
>Joe Meek became fascinated with the idea of communicating with the dead [...] He would set up tape machines in graveyards in an attempt to record voices from beyond the grave, in one instance capturing the meows of a cat he believed was speaking in human tones, asking for help. In particular, he had an obsession with Buddy Holly (saying the late American rocker had communicated with him in dreams).[27][28] By the end of his career, Meek's fascination with these topics had taken over his life following the deterioration in his mental health, and he started to believe that his flat contained poltergeists, that aliens were substituting his speech by controlling his mind, and that photographs in his studio were trying to communicate with him.[29]>Meek was affected by bipolar disorder[30] and schizophrenia,[31] and, upon receiving an apparently innocent phone call from American record producer Phil Spector, Meek immediately accused Spector of stealing his ideas before hanging up angrily.[32] His professional efforts were often hindered by his paranoia (Meek was convinced that Decca Records would put hidden microphones behind his wallpaper to steal his ideas), depression, and extreme mood swings.[33] In later years, Meek started experiencing psychotic delusions, culminating in his refusal to use the studio telephone for important communications due to his belief that his landlady was eavesdropping on his calls through the chimney, that he could control the minds of others with his recording equipment, and that he could monitor his acts while away from the studio through supernatural means.[29]>On 3 February 1967, Meek killed his landlady Violet Shenton and then himself, at his Holloway Road residence.[43][44] The weapon used was a single-barrelled shotgun [...] Meek and Shenton had argued over his noise levels and the rent that he still owed, before Meek picked up the gun.[45]
>>129799484Joe is the patron saint of online bedroom producer schizos
Donny Hathaway [Atco, 1971]Jerry Wexler and Atlantic, who would seem to know more about this sort of thing than I do, are pushing this refugee from the production booth as the Man Who Will Revitalize Soul Music. Could be, as I say, but if having soul means digging on all this supper-club melodrama and homogenized jazz then I'm content to be sterile, square, and white. Yeah yeah yeah. D-
>>129799329For as much as I've heard Donny and his daughter Lalah, I've never heard this sad story of his death. Mental illness is a bitch, man. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
>>129799606it's kinda funny though
>>129799618I guess.Listen to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIsolAiSlY
Clive Davis sent goons to kill him.This was clearly not a suicide. Way too many factors don't add up.
>>129799513lol>>129799618elaborate?
>>129800236>Hathaway said that white people were trying to kill him and had connected his brain to a machine for the purpose of stealing his music and his voice
>>129800332Again, (((Clive Davis))) was the one who got him killed.
