Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Blank Generation

At the risk of turning this thing into a perpetual obituary column, I must note that we fell off our chair when our eyes fell upon the New York Times* obituary for guitarist Robert Quine. Described therein as "punk" but not really all that punk at all, as a listen to the duet album he did with drummer Fred Maher would demonstrate. Whilst I don't actually own any Material albums, I do have Quine scattered throughout my collection, from Tom Waits to Zorn to Matthew Sweet. And I know someone who owns the 3-cd set of Velvet Underground "bootlegs'" that came out not long ago.

* What I like most of all about the nytimes is the formality: where else would Richard Hell find himself referred to as "Mr Hell"?

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