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     Gareth |
Robert Quine, a really great and influential guitarist, died last week but this seems to have gone unreported. Does anyone know any details of his death? He couldn't have been that old. He made some great music with Richard Hell, Lou Reed, Matthew Sweet and LLoyd Cole. | ||
| Allan |
that's very sad. I found this site where there is a brief mention of it in a pop-up box. http://home.earthlink.net/~stayclean/quine.html | ||
| James |
That is very sad. He was fantastic guitarist. I also really enjoyed his box set of Velvet Underground live recordings that came out a couple of years aqo. The sleeve notes that he wrote are a good read too. | ||
| James |
Just found this NEW YORK (AP) _ Robert Quine, a versatile punk-rock guitarist who appeared on albums by Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull and Tom Waits, has died in Manhattan. He was 61. Police found Quine dead in his apartment Saturday, said James Marshall, a friend. The medical examiner's office would determine the cause of death, but a note found with his body indicated suicide, police said Marshall said he believed Quine died May 31. "He was an extraordinary mixture of taste, intelligence and rock 'n' roll abilities, coupled with major technique and a scholar's memory for every decent guitar lick ever played under the musical sun," Reed said in a statement Monday. Quine's playing was first heard on record in 1977, on Richard Hell and the Voidoids' "Blank Generation." He also appeared on Reed's "The Blue Mask" in 1982 and in the 1990s played with such artists as Matthew Sweet and Lloyd Cole. Quine, who was older than most of his punk-rock peers and nearly bald, typically wore button-down shirts and sport coats. He once said he looked like a "deranged insurance salesman." He was born in Akron, Ohio and graduated from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. He received a law degree from Washington University law school in St. Louis. Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press | ||
| John |
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000526473 |