Great music made while sick

[Quaco]

Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert

Sick and playing an "unsuitable" piano.

[Jimbly]

if only he didn't grunt all the way through

[The Slider]

The inspiration for this album began when Eno was left bed-ridden in a hospital by an automobile accident and was given an album of eighteenth-century harp music. After struggling to put the record on the turntable and returning to bed, he realised that the volume was turned down (toward the threshold of inaudibility) but he lacked the strength to get up from the bed again and turn it up. Eno said this experience taught him a new way to perceive music:

"This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music—as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience."

[ConnyOlivetti]

Was not Eno at home, and friend Rita came over with the album... nitpicking..

[The Slider]

I don;t know
That is from Wikipedia and is pretty much how I recall it being. But..

[Hugh]

In January this year I had an accident. I was not seriously hurt, but I was confined to bed in a stiff and static position. My friend Judy Nylon visited me and brought me a record of 18th century harp music. After she had gone, and with some considerable difficulty, I put on the record. Having laid down, I realized that the amplifier was set at an extremely low level, and that one channel of the stereo had failed completely. Since I hadn't the energy to get up and improve matters, the record played on almost inaudibly. This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music - as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience. It is for this reason that I suggest listening to the piece at comparatively low levels, even to the extent that it frequently falls below the threshold of audibility.

[never/ever]

Warren Zevon recording The Wind while having cancer...and this performance and subsequent interview spring to mind as well.

[Hugh]

I suppose Blackstar has this one nailed.

[joklend]

Mozart's Requiem in D Minor.
Joy Division's Closer.

[WG Kaspar]

Innuendo

[Diamond Dog]

Innuendo

The great thing about that was it was the best thing they'd done for over a decade.

[WG Kaspar]

Innuendo

The great thing about that was it was the best thing they'd done for over a decade.

I think The Show Must Go On is his best vocal performance.

[ConnyOlivetti]

In January this year I had an accident. I was not seriously hurt, but I was confined to bed in a stiff and static position. My friend Judy Nylon visited me and brought me a record of 18th century harp music. After she had gone, and with some considerable difficulty, I put on the record. Having laid down, I realized that the amplifier was set at an extremely low level, and that one channel of the stereo had failed completely. Since I hadn't the energy to get up and improve matters, the record played on almost inaudibly. This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music - as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience. It is for this reason that I suggest listening to the piece at comparatively low levels, even to the extent that it frequently falls below the threshold of audibility.

Thats the one I remember, and just checked my vinyl copy
dont know where I got Rita from, maybe she had something to do with Before And After Science?
Ritva perhaps....

[Bent Fabric]

Legend has it that Neil Young wrote 'Down By the River', 'Cowgirl in the Sand' and 'Cinnamon Girl' all during the same delirious high fever.

[Tactful Cactus]

In January this year I had an accident. I was not seriously hurt, but I was confined to bed in a stiff and static position. My......

I was halfway through this before I realised you were quoting Eno.

[Tactful Cactus]

Legend has it that Neil Young wrote 'Down By the River', 'Cowgirl in the Sand' and 'Cinnamon Girl' all during the same delirious high fever.

Not to mention being close to paralysis during the making of Harvest.

[Snarfyguy]

Rock Bottom, of course, composed while recuperating from a paralyzing fall.

[ConnyOlivetti]

Rock Bottom, of course, composed while recuperating from a paralyzing fall.

think most of it was wrote before his drop/fall! ?

"Although the music itself is intense and often harrowing, and the lyrics to the songs are dense and obviously deeply personal, Wyatt has denied that the material was a direct result of the accident and the long period of recuperation. Indeed, much of the album had been written while in Venice in early 1973 prior to Wyatt's accident, where his partner and future wife (the poet Alfreda Benge) was working as an assistant editor on Nicolas Roeg's film Don't Look Now."

[pig bodine]

Depending on your opinion of Frank Zappa, Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo while in a wheelchair for broken vertebrae and leg

[Charlie O.]

Depending on your opinion of Frank Zappa, Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo while in a wheelchair for broken vertebrae and leg

Easily among his best '70s albums, imo.