| Author | Message | ||
     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 874 Registered: 10-2008 |
terrible news. http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound /2010/10/rip_ari_up_of_the_slits_dead.ph p | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1975 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sad news indeed. I'll be playing some Slits today in memory of her. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 176 Registered: 11-2007 |
Really sad news. Ari, you will be missed but not forgotten. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2078 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yikes, that's terrible news. And much like Grant, far too young. I wonder what the "serious illness" was. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1906 Registered: 09-2006 |
Indeed...cuing up Cut as we speak...RIP | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1049 Registered: 08-2004 |
yeah quite a shock. Just a couple of days ago I had Typical Girls playing on my running playlist. I was thinking there really has never been a band like them since. She was a true punk. I also like the comeback record. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1976 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Hard to say what the "serious illness" was, but like you mentioned it was far too young indeed. It's almost like 50 years ago when a lot of jazz musicians were dying far too young (Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Fats Navarro, Lester Young, etc), however you could pin most of that on years of heroin usage. Even though John Coltrane stopped using in 1957, he died ten years later of liver cancer no doubt brought on by the damage he had done to his liver during the 1950's. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 875 Registered: 10-2008 |
she had cancer | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 876 Registered: 10-2008 |
more here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obitua ries/ari-up-rebellious-and-confrontation al-singer-with-punkreggae-band-the-slits -2113240.html |