Robert Wyatt - when I'm 64...if I can rock it like this...

Robert Wyatt was the drummer, vocalist, and songwriter for the Soft Machine in the mid-60's thru 1973ish. He suffered an accident then which left him wheelchair-bound
but still filled with some of the greatest songs that were to come out of the progressive rock canon from then until now (his 'ComicOpera' came out in 2007 and is one of the best
releases of the millenium)...it also got him ushered out of the lugubrious folds of the Soft Machine, who then floundered on in saxa-maphone-hell for many years with Elton Dean
and different line-ups but never regained the funky groove of the Wyatt years.

I went, a couple times, to the Boyle Family exhibit in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003. They invented the practice of showing colored-oil projections behind bands in the mid-60's.
They were the exclusive lighting artists behind the Soft Machine and introduced moving oil projections along with all sorts of light and other video tweekings as adjunct hallucinatory
experiences into the psychedelic rock world. They really made the rock concert a multi-sensory psychedelic experience like noone else...