Remembering Nico who tragically passed away 35 years ago today. 🖤
“I saw that the impression the rock press made on the public was dishonest. It seemed that an attempt had been made to erase her from history. She was a female composer who didn’t fit the general categories of rock or folk; she sang her own creations not with feigned passion, but with clarity and eloquence. They only wrote about a drug addict who once fucked a bunch of stars. I’ve been a witness to abhorrent misogyny in the music business, classical, pop, jazz and experimental scenes for a long time, and I thought it would be useful to study her career in those terms.”
He played on the Flamin’ Groovies’ “Teenage Head”, and the Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”. In the same year. He played on Aretha Franklin recordings, and some from Rocket From The Crypt. Ditto Ry Cooder, Mudhoney, Big Star, the Replacements, Sam and Dave, Toots and the Maytals, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Bob Dylan, Petula Clark, and.Tav Falco. He’s recorded his own records, both music and spoken word. He has been backed by the Cramps. He’s Jim Dickinson. Musician, producer, songwriter, and apparent replicant.
Pavement Co-founder, Former Drummer Gary Young Dies at 70
- “Without Gary, many people would not have noticed us,” band says
Gary Young, the co-founding Pavement drummer who was with the band from 1989 to 1993, has died, Stephen Malkmus said.
“Gary Young passed on today,” the Pavement frontman said Aug. 17 on social media without giving a cause.
“Gary’s Pavement drums were one-take-and-hit-record. Nailed it so well.”
Young appeared on four EPs and Pavement’s debut long-player, 1992’s Slanted and Enchanted before leaving the group.
“Without Gary, many people would not have noticed us,” Pavement said in a statement. “In all of the best ways, he was a freak show. He was magnetic. He was magical. He was dangerous. We could think of him as an uncle, an older brother that none of us had.”
Young’s post-Pavement activities included recording three solo albums under the Gary Young’s Hospital banner.
“Gary had FUN, and those of us who got to hang with him will never forget this amazing cat … what an honor and what a gift sweet Gary was,” Thurston Moore said on social media.
