Whatever Happened to Melody Maker?

by Super Trampoline

First published

He up and vanished, what a faker! The world was his oyster so why did he forsake her?

He up and vanished, what a faker! The world was his oyster so why did he forsake her?

Where is he now?


Dedicated to Darf, Syd Barrett, and all the other artists who dance too long upon the knife's edge of insanity.

Oh What a Circus

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Melody Maker, what a show! What a show and then you go bye bye!

Bye bye!

Why did you leave it all all it left behind

Bye Bye!

Oh Noteworthy I know I know Pony think I'm crazy!

Crazy noteworthy crazy

I am a legend now I still get paper you know

Paper?>

Yes the paper. Daily paper. every day. I read about myself

All about myself in the paper I read about how they gave up looking for me.

Are n't ponies worried? Oh no no no no no no

no no
no

No worry, I write letters

letters to the ponies I tell them

I tell them I am alive

Some ponies some some ponies

Some ponies think they are fake letters but they are true
true letters I write about how I am alive but done
done

done


done done

done
with the music
so done With FAKE with fakers

done now. No more of the music

But melody note worthy sais

Noteworth say to Melody maker

Why you done

Music such music good

good music lovekly righ musc. Lovely rich music

Look love good music world love good music.,


Yes world love your music so great
I think great too

very nice. I make music

yes you do note worthy lovely music it's great I bought your most recent album. I really appreciate how you shaped the kick drum on "Sonic Pain Boom" And I like the daring use of cello on "Synchronicity 34". That was a collab with Octavia, right? Oh I must pay her wife a visit, Vinyl must be

worried worried

worried sick

There, just there Note says

Worthy tells Melody you were coherent

so sense. So much more sense for just a moment,

It was good the old maker back for a moment. I like
when
you talk about muskc.,

Talk more
abouit About it About Music.



No no music for me

for you
music good
For me only pain now

No more explore no more bore or chore.
My sounds were good once
now just pain.

But drugs
drugs good

No melody no note says I worry
worry

worry

worry so much
So much

You do more drug than before

yes yes yes Such fun

Fun funf un fun fun!
Good make me happy

Note worthy you are a good friend unlike those
those those those

Those other
Stabgers
those other stabbers in the back

All those other stabbers in the back wanted me

Wanted my money
my fame
all they want never want me
who I was

But buck them
buck buck buck them

HAHAHA
Ha! AM I right

Now just get high

High on these magic mushrooms

High forget life


No Note Worth-ee say firm

No Melody I hate see you like this.

Bad bad Maker Melody. I see you fucked up

You are
are are are
I don't use this word lightly

You are Fucked up.

You

Yo played in canterlot

Canterlot and Brandenburger

Brandenburger and Hirzai

Oh Northy don't bring up

The past!

The past no need to tell what I did then

I have money to do now
A million bits every day

No you're broke

am not I got a check for 4000 bits
every other week I get check
I make music past it pay me now

And you spend it on drugs

you were the pride of Equestria with your crazy new sounds

Such sounds Melody Maker

Such crazy orgasmic sounds You put Vinyl and Pinkie and Countess to shame! What sounds!

Yes I really was a pioneer in electronic music back in the day, wasn't I? A lot of unexplored possibilities at the intersection of magic and electronics and music. But oh welll

Oh well

Well Well

Well!

Well I have Dove tails and Chicken Spit now!

No Chicken Spit! Cockatrice poison. Stop calling

Calling it chicken spit it's shit!

Kills you slowly I know know know know! I read

studies it calcifies your body you

You are
You are killing youself kill kill killing youself Melody Maker!

I don't care done less pressure now

now I sit in my house in backwoods of New yorkshire. Now I just sit sit sit here

I go to buy cereal twice a month
and I am happy

Are you really happy smoking to death here


Yes yes yes I am so happy I cry

every day EVERY DAY

I cry but I won't let them know

I had to go out mysteri Mysteriously. Yes yes Now they think I'm legend performer

Musician out top of the game!

Oh what a lovely circus, I wish you could see it, Note worthy

See how sad you have become here? In this cottage?! It makes me sad

So be it

Feel like m,e.

Fall apart

Lose hope

Lose music.







No


No no I refuse No

Yes Notey! Thank you for coming

Thank you thank thank YOU for coming here

Here house

Here to my house

But but but

Oh how how did you get in here?!

how You follow me?

It's hard to get the good mushrooms I followed the trail

The magic trail to the magic mushroom
s

HA! haha Say high to Celestia

You found me all right you good friend but keep secret

Tell no pony no pony should no

I just want to be alone alone with myself and my garden

OH!

But Hi!

Hi?

Yes tell Celestia! Tell her

Hi Celestia! Hi Pink Horse!

N o No NO Melody you could say hi yourself

We want you back! We want your music

I don't want my music.

Equestria does though! Please, come back!

No no let me be sad

let me be confused stumbleubmumbumbling about hiiiiiiiiiiiigh all the time

Let me escape all the fake

All the fake happyness equestria

All the Equestrian fake happy music

Just

Just leave me Noteworthy

Leave
and
let me be sad

Okay I will leave

Thank you friend

Thank you

Goodbye

Goodbye




Goodbye

















































































Melody Maker died three weeks later from a heart-attack. Cockatrice venom, or "Chicken Spit" as it's known on the streets was found in elevated amounts in his system. He left behind an estranged wife and a two-year old daughter.
But hey, he was happy
In his own miserable way.