Eh? It says on the site that he made a living as a music teacher, around the early 80s I believe. Contradiction how?

I desperately want to like this guy – the music described on site (20th century harmonics combined with free jazz and rock, proto new wave etc) sounded like my cup of tea and his whole freak / ostracized and bullied / weird appearance thing was almost like reading about myself (there is, sadly, a vague similarity in appearance). Plus the lyrics are unique as it gets – can’t think of anyone who’s really talked about the sort of stuff he talks about in the way he does, without beating round the bush with metaphors like most angst rock people do. He just says it. Still, I guess there were people like Gainsbourg before him.

But fact is, the records is naff. It’s like synthy showtuney 70s pop rock, a few good moments but mostly bland and musically no different to loads of bands/artists from back then (Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick etc.) which wouldn’t be bad if the music was decent. Plus the site just seems like a load of revisionist hype by some bitter git. Apparently Skafish pioneered every genre to come out of the last quarter of the 20th century. I don’t doubt that Stan Kenton, Willie Dixon etc. bummed him so hard without reason, or that Skafish is a virtuoso musician or a genius or whatever. Maybe live it really was amazing, and I bet his jazz piano record is good. Just the stuff that’s been released is unconvincing.