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HeavenIsInYrBeard wrote: Tue May 09, 2023 2:16 pm Rita Lee of Os Mutantes and later solo fame.

A stellar voice. Great band at their best.



R.I.P.

The great Frank Kozik.

Rob Laakso of The Swirlies, and more recently, Kurt Vile's Violators.

Only 44. Fuck cancer.

Andy Rourke, bass player for The Smiths. Damn.

The face of a man wondering how to make Morrissey funky.

A nice fella, who wore his illness with dignity. Safe journey.

Andy was the best.

RIP.

Damn. So many great bass lines. I feel like I should be saying more but don’t have it in me right now.

RIP

jfv wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 6:43 am Damn. So many great bass lines. I feel like I should be saying more but don’t have it in me right now.

RIP

Yeah, same. Smiths were a very important band for me in my adolescence, and as much as any, were a band I latched onto as a soundtrack for my own physical, emotional, and intellectual changes in that period.

This is closer to what I wanted to post. This song. This bass line. It could have more closely followed what Marr was doing, but it doesn't. It's fucking awesome. He does this shit all of the time and I love it.

(Marr's part is pretty damn good too... eat your heart out, Peter Buck.)

Absolutely one of the greatest bassists ever. At least he managed to live his later life without having to reunite with Morrissey. RIP.