So sad
Click to viewAbove is a clip of Psychic TV3 live at WFMU. The blond person sitting on the floor playing the sampler is Lady Jaye.
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I am so saddened by what has happened. Psychic TV have been my favorite band ever since I bought "Hex Sex, the Singles Volume One" when I was 17. From there I discovered Throbbing Gristle and, of course, Chris & Cosy and Coil, and my life was never quite the same again.
The "pandrogynous" experience that Lady Jaye and Genesis were taking part in, to become the same being via surgeries, matching breast implants, and other body modifications highly interested me and I was eagerly waiting to see how it turned out. Now, we will never know.
My heart aches for Genesis and the rest of PTV3.
"I don't know if you know the story of how PTV3 originated, but you know I met Lady Jaye, my other half, in 1993 in NY, fell madly in love, and still madly in love all these years later... and she didn't know I was even in a band when we fell in love. She had heard Throbbing Gristle, but she didn't make the connection, and she remembered hearing “Hamburger Lady” when she was still in high school and thinking it was a really interesting track, but one of her best friends from her teenage years was this guy Edward Odowd... Edley. When we moved to New York in 1996 we started to hang out with Edley, you know for dinner and just listen to records and talk. And he said to me, “you really should start Psychic TV again.” And I said, “Why?”He said, “'because you write good songs.” It may seem weird to people now, but I never thought of myself as primarily a songwriter. I've always been into these cultural ideas and ways to change the world and all these other things, but I never really separated it out and thought “I write songs.”" --- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge