La noticia más triste del año. No tenemos palabras, dejaremos que sean algunos que lo conocieron los que se expresen:“The most important story to report now is not Vic’s death but a life and work overflowing with insight, humor, and yes, resilience. This, after all, was the man who wrote: “I thought I had a calling, anyway, I just kept dialing.” Sixteen extraordinary albums, five in the last couple of years; countless live shows so powerful and sublime they deeply altered the lives of those on the stage with Vic and those looking up, yes up, at him. The second most important story here has to do with a broken health care system depriving so many of the help they need to stay around and stay sane, and a society that never balks at providing more money for more wars but fights tooth and nail against decent care for its citizens. Vic’s death, just so you all know, did not come at the end of some cliché downward spiral. He was battling deep depression but also at the peak of his powers, and with the help of friends and family he was in the middle of a desperate search for help. The system failed to provide it. I miss him terribly. " (Jem Cohen)
“We have lost one of our great ones. His songs and his story remain.” (Michael Stipe)
"I flew around a little room once. A line from Supernatural. He was just that. He possessed an unearthly energy and yet was humanistic with the common man in mind. He was entirely present and entirely somewhere else. A mystical somewhere else. A child and an old guy as he called himself. Before he made an album he said he was a bum. Now he is in flight bumming round beyond the little room. With his angel voice. " (Patti Smith)
"Coward":
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Vaya...la primera noticia era que se recuperaría...lo echaremos de menos.
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El suicidio de Vic Chesnutt es, para mí, una de las noticias más tristes de los últimos años. Su último disco "At The Cut" toma una dimensión desoladora de epitafio, a la vez que una de las obras más turbadoras de la década...la interpretación de "Coward" (ver vídeo) encoge cualquier corazón.
Una auténtica pena... y me quedo con las sabias palabras de Jem Cohen...
Vaya....certifico la fecha del post y veo que no es una inocentada....aunque claro una inocentada sería que se ha suicidado Miguel Bosé......Ufffff¡¡¡
lo que más lástima me dió en el momento en que me enteré fué el pensar lo muchísimo que estaria sufriendo para llegar a hacer algo así...ahora su canción "Coward" toma realmente sentido...lo echaremos mucho de menos
Cada cosa que escribe Patti Smith me pone los pelos de punta. Voy a ver si ha escrito algo sobre Rowland.
Feliz año, chicos!
Qué palo supuso conocer la noticia, me vino a la mente la imagen del último concierto que vi de él hace unos años en el auditorio del Fórum. Es súper triste porque entonces ya estaba triste. Y ahora... pienso que todos estos años han debido de ser una agonía para él.
Qué cierto lo que dice Jem C., cuánto dinero para matar personas y qué poco para sanarlas... .... ........
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