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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: ian on January 13, 2010, 04:17:33 PM
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no real info yet, just that he died in his sleep last night
http://www.goner-records.com/board/index.php
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Terrible.
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I saw him with Deerhunter, Times New Viking, and Pylon here in Atlanta on halloween of 2008. What's weird is that Randall Bewley died February of 2009. Sad to lose him and very sad to lose Jay too.
He was excellent live and on record.
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sucky
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Looks like it is true. This is so horrible.
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You took the wrong Jay, God.
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yeah, I hate it.
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Shit. At least I got to see him live. "Man of Steel" was my jam last year.
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Seemed like his reputation preceded him a lot of the time but go down the list musically and it's hard to step to what he put out. Even that aside, anyone going at 29 is a huge bummer.
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Very sad news.
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Jay was one of the greats. The masterful Blood Visions and the rest of his vast catalog will slay for years to come.
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it's really astounding how hard he worked
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Saw him twice at small clubs. I had never seen someone take a very small show at a rock club as such an opportunity to blow it out like he did. This is very sad and unexpected.
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You took the wrong Jay, God.
Thumbs up, there.
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Shocking, terrible news. Was also lucky to see him in a small packed club a couple of years ago.
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That's really too bad. I don't know all that much about him except that I really enjoyed Blood Visions.
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I had just unfriended him on facebook because all he was talking about was drugs and food related debauchery. Weird and sad and horrible. Those two singles collections are some of my favorite music of all time.
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Really sad to hear this. I got to see him earlier this fall and it was the most fun I've had at a show in a really long time. He had so many more great records left in him.
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A bunch of great songs and a monumental achievement in rocking with Blood Visions. Really depressing.
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He played for free at Stuyvesant Village over the summer. Outdoors, half-filled with fans and Stuy residents. He had tremendous energy as he blasted out song after song barely swallowing the Red Bull he was chugging in between. It was a great experience - one that I did not think would be the last.
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This is really sad. He was truly great and I was a fan for a long time. Positive thoughts/prayers/energy to his family and friends.
Tom.
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I saw him play in Chicago, and he shook people's hands up toward the front after his set. I liked that.
Rest in peace.
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Awful. Just awful. Almost no words.
He was just getting started. Can you imagine what he would have done with the next ten years? Even the next five?
And, if it was drugs: Fuck you, drugs. Seriously. Just fuck you.
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Truly one of my favorite musicians. I loved his music since the first time I heard Teenage Hate.
This is awful.
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He played for free at Stuyvesant Village over the summer. Outdoors, half-filled with fans and Stuy residents. He had tremendous energy as he blasted out song after song barely swallowing the Red Bull he was chugging in between. It was a great experience - one that I did not think would be the last.
here's a link for that show
http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1302 (http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1302)
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He may be gone, but his musical contributions will endure.
RIP
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So sad- selfishly, I'm wishing I had managed to see him play (it just never worked out with dates/locations, I guess).
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Man, this is so sad. I'm really glad I got to see him when he came through Seattle doing in-stores a few months ago-- he wasn't feeling very well for the first show he did, but the show the next day was amazing.
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My office has had a Teddy Pendergrass CD playing all day. I only wish they'd switch it out for Blood Visions.
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Him and Jay are both jamming up in heaven now. Just hopefully not together, cause that would sound awful.
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He played for free at Stuyvesant Village over the summer. Outdoors, half-filled with fans and Stuy residents. He had tremendous energy as he blasted out song after song barely swallowing the Red Bull he was chugging in between. It was a great experience - one that I did not think would be the last.
here's a link for that show
http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1302 (http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1302)
Thanks for this - really great. Here's a pic too for reference. Taken from my iPhone so it's small. You can just make out Stuy village. What a loss.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/lambgravy/IMG_0036crop-1.jpg)
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Kind of an unexpected turn:
MPD Investigating Jay Reatard's Death as Homicide (http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/011410-mpd-investigating-jay-reatard%27s-death-as-homicide)
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That link is broken, but I read it earlier. It's BULLSHIT. Overdoses (if that's what happened) require homicide investigation to rule things out, for whatever reason. Jay wasn't murdered.
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as a memphis local, this event has truly turned this community upside down. jay was a great example of the memphis lifestyle (positive+negative+everything in between). he could be a crank at times, and more than once i've been punched in or around my face and body from jay lunging at anybody who pissed him off from crowd (why next to me?!), but i got my apologies and i'll miss the guy.
please, visit the goner board, share in the stories, and enjoy a life lost too soon.
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I saw him at some dockside festival in New London, CT in the fall of '08. It was the first (and only time) I got to see him, and I was more than impressed. At the time I had only heard Blood Visions and Night of Broken Glass, but I was on board after that show. I never really noticed (most of his songs were short, loud, and fast) but the dude could really shred on guitar. I was pleasantly surprised.
Much too young.