“Unless you can get yourself killed in time (be you Nick Drake or Hendrix), someone is going to try and collaborate with you. There are times when it's a symbiotic and sympathetic endeavor, empowering both parties (something on the Erstwhile label comes to mind, or maybe Max Roach and Clifford Brown). But more often the results are heinous, as each tethers themselves to the other's sinking ship (Dy”
