Sixteen years old, heading out on tour for the first time, feeling really excited and alive, hitting the open highway and blasting #1 record. That's the kind of stuff I have attached to his music. This is a major loss for sure.

Paul Westerberg's eulogy in the NY Times.

Thirteen is a proper tune.RIP.

Kyle Motor wrote:I saw Chilton once with the Box Tops opening for The Raspberries in Waukesha at a fair or something circa 2005...Amazing. What a bill. Who would have guessed that the gravelly voiced singer for the Box Tops would have changed into the melodic singer for a band that I loved too much, and opening for a band I've loved since it's inception.The world is closing in.

As an unspoken tribute to Alex Chilton, I played a suitably shambolic rendition of O Dana with the Kentucky Chrome Revue in Brooklyn last weekend. It's a fun song to sing.

Thought you guys might enjoy this:Terry Hackbarth is a local musician who plays in a pair of power-pop bands called The Nice Outfit and Trolley. He would get dinner with Alex whenever he was in town for the last 12 years, and he wrote a very cool eulogy for me and the music blog i just re-started through ThirdCoastDigest, Fan-Belt. Here's the article.

Here's a short segment at DN! on Chilton and his lack of insurance. The bit begins around 10:25, at 10:00 is the beginning of the segment on the uninsured. It's only about a minute long.

I saw that too.It depressed me.

noise&light wrote:ctrl-s wrote:I saw him just once, in 1984, at the Uptown Bar in Minneapolis, with the Replacements. It was a glorious, shitfaced drunk, inspired and beatific show. They played a bunch of covers. I bootlegged it on cassette and I think I still have the tape somewhere. Jesus Christ, I hope so.I really hope that you have this. I'd love to hear it. Though for some reason I don't want to hear his music right now. I think it would just make me feel worse.I found that cassette belonging to ctrl-s, and am in the process of digitizing it: Replacements with Alex Chilton, Uptown Bar, Minneapolis MN USA, 10 January 1985. Check the sendspace thread in a couple weeks. The tape has Chilton and the Replacements doing Taking Care of Business (Bachman-Turner Overdrive), Help Me Rhonda and Little GTO (Beach Boys), Can't Get Enough of Your Love (Bad Company), and I'll Be There (Jackson 5).

TMI.