Phil Brown, bassist and founding member of The Records -- and if you don't know who they are and love them to distraction I'm surprised you're reading this particular blog -- has passed away after a long illness.
Very sad news indeed; that's all I'm gonna say.
Except, obviously -- play this loud in his honor. It doesn't get any better.
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Sad, good band The Records were. Caught them at The Bottom Line in 1979. When I worked at the record store on Carmine Street Huw Gower came in all the time, he lived on Bedford Street, around the corner. A good guy and a good guitarist. Boy, they're dropping like flies.
I saw them at the Bottom Line and then fairly soon there after at one of those rock disco places like Danceteria, although I think it was a different place, uptown.
They were fucking brilliant both times; I remember thinking that in a better world, they would have been working as John Lennon's backing band instead of those session jerks on Double Fantasy.
Or the loopy and hairy Elephant's Memory a while earlier. At least Cheap Trick got in on I'm Losing You, if memory serves.
damn - I always loves these guys and both the Virgin American Albums. "Hearts In Her Eyes" should have been a hit for SOMEONE fer cryin' out loud.
Two of the best purchases of my life were the two Records LPs, right out of the cutout bin of J&R Music on Park Row. They set so many bars so impossibly high, for songwriting, harmonizing, guitar textures.
All these years, I thought that lead line was played on a 12-string. I'm sure that's what they wanted us to think.
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They are dropping like flies.
I've never been more aware of my mortality.
I completely missed the Records.
From '79-81 I was a punk in LA going out to see X, The Germs, Minutemen, Black Flag, The Plugz, Fear, The Weirdos, Top Jimmy, The Cramps, Circle Jerks, Social Distortion, The Mentors, Angry Samoans, Wall Of Voodoo, Geza X, etc, while playing bass in King James and the Bible Burners.
Power Pop was not an option, it's what you threw shit at.
It was fun for awhile, but then I moved on.
Starry Eyes is one of my all time top 10 songs. Will be missed - RIP Paul
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