"I’m not going to make music forever, so if they continue to play instant composing when I die, it will be good. So that’s why it’s called the Never Ending Tour."

It was a privilege having played with Damo at the Adelphi Hull and at Exeter Phoenix. How can the never ending world tour continue? If it can it will be a best tribute to him.

The first report I read of his death came courtesy of The Wire's own Derek Walmsley in The Guardian newspaper a week ago. When focusing on his lyrics during his tenure with Can, one of the intelligible lines he quotes comes from the refrain of 'Hallelujah' (the 'j' was later changed to a 'w', but on the United Artists release it's spelt with a 'j'), 'Searching for my brother, yes I am'. Decades ago I remember reading a commentary on this line, suggesting that Damo was making a reference to the Velvets' 'Searching for my mainline', the first line of the refrain from 'Sister Ray', since what he was actually singing was 'Searching for my bloodflow' (not 'brother'), which is how the Genius.com lyrics website reads it, and which is how, under that influence, I hear it when I listen to it. Anyway, beauty's in the ear of the beholder. Gone but not forgotten.