Fuck, but I'd forgotten how many great records (not just The Birthday Party/Boys Next Door etc) he played on - especially those incredible Jacobites sides. I believe he has a wake happening this Thursday in St Kilda, everyone welcome.
I've written a short tribute over at The Guardian.
Rowland S Howard - She Cried
Boys Next Door - Shivers
Rowland S Howard & Lydia Lunch - Some Velvet Morning
The Jacobites - Death Is Hanging Over Me
The Birthday Party - Rowland Around In That Stuff
These Immortal Souls - Marry Me
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ReplyDeleteFernando V-lazco
He was great...
02 January at 06:40 ·
Debbie Schow
so sad
02 January at 06:40 ·
Jim Smith
That version of Some Velvet Morning he did with Lydia Lunch is on my turntable.
02 January at 06:41 ·
Andrew Hitchcock
Wasn't he in these immortal Souls?
02 January at 06:44 ·
Everett True
I'm on holiday in Melbourne right now, but I'll write him a proper eulogy on my blog soon as I can.
02 January at 06:44 ·
Celine Barley Lux
@Andrew: yes he was.
02 January at 06:47 ·
Del Rogers
A true pioneer. Wounded.
02 January at 06:52 ·
Andrew Hitchcock
Ah then I saw him in my first London gig. I was 15 and snuck off to London without my parents knowing,saw them support Sonic Youth at the Mean Fiddler, had no money so had to walk all the way back overnight to Waterloo
02 January at 06:57 ·
Everett True
Robert Forster near-dragged me to watch him at ATP last January. I'm so glad he did. It was a great show. Fucking amazing guitarist: one of my two or three fave Aus guitarists, no shadow of a doubt.
02 January at 07:02 ·
Michael Ergo
unlike. fuck.
02 January at 08:43 ·
Richard Boulter
Truly saddening
02 January at 09:16 ·
Vera Ramone King
What happened?
02 January at 09:31 ·
Suzy Ramone
He died of liver cancer, aged 50
03 January at 05:03 ·
Angus Stevenson
I saw him play with Nikki Sudden in a little place in N London - incredible gig, great to watch him from about a yard away. Then he put on his parka, picked up his guitar case and slipped off to get the tube on his own
03 January at 05:51 ·
Candy Ballard
Oh, no...
Guitar hero.
R.I.P.
03 January at 16:37 ·
Greg Charles
i see him more as an anti-guitar hero. he was above (or beside) technicality, and was more like some wired painter stretching colours and tones and atmosphere all over the fucking place. his influence is immeasurable, i remember even the guitarist from Bush (yes, THAT band) praising him on Rage in the nineties. that's not counting all the GREAT musicians he's influenced. but beyond that, he represented independent thinking in our small scene - did it his way. RIP.
04 January at 14:42 ·
Everett True
just wrote a blog for The Guardian. damn, I'd forgotten he was on some of those incredible Jacobites albums
04 January at 21:28 ·
Candy Ballard
You're so right, Greg.
Amen, to that.
04 January at 23:33 ·
Gregory Hilleard
i don't mind my heroes departing when they're old ...i was just watching the live birthday party video...sigh
05 January at 15:52 ·
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ReplyDeleteAndrea Pavanello
R.I.P.
05 January at 07:28 ·
Lloyd Barrett
A fine tribute sir. Deep In The Woods is giving me Shivers...
05 January at 09:18 ·
Helen McGrath
everett can i share this on my page? got a few mates down here in melb who knew him & would prob appreciate the sentiment
05 January at 18:33 ·
Everett True
yes of course you can.
05 January at 18:59 ·
Helen McGrath
thanks for that - the word 'excellent' was thrown around in response
06 January at 15:10 ·
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXOEETE7AGo
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