Music

xtcclassic

As if Sunday wasn't bad enough with Bowie passing, the St. Louis music scene lost an incredible musician to cancer earlier that day as well. Ken McCray, the drummer of Tilts and formerly Shame Club, who had been battling cancer for four years. Such an amazingly cool dude, the nicest guy you'd ever wish to meet, and probably the best drummer in town by most accounts. A real powerhouse, and supremely musical as well. I was honored to have known him and see him play on many occasions with Tilts and Shame Club, and it crushes me that I'll never get to witness him behind a kit again as he was such a joy to watch. Fuck cancer.

My favorite Tilts song:

Peter

http://www.sunkilmoon.com/jesuskm.html that happened. I never know when Mark Kozelek releases new music, but it always makes me excited. Hopefully better than his last, but obviously won't surpass Benji.

4c

John Prine.

Dwight Yoakam Singing an old John Prine song.

So great..

jdl1279

RIP Glenn Frey

Graeme

Bowie and Gilmour are Comfortably Numb.

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illo59

Classic sunday chillout:

natehate

@4c apeman will be played at my funeral
thats a fact

4c

^ Suppose it could be worse…

Love this slow blues…

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Finkster

Miiks

Chris

Random story semi-related to that:
My wife is a lawyer and is involved in a local lawyer association. Several years ago, we went to a fundraiser dinner and sat with older lawyer and his wife. Joe has a daughter from a previous marriage who was working as a fairly successful makeup artist in LA at the time. My wife liked to get gossip about celebrities that Joe got from his daughter. Naturally, Julie asked about her at the dinner. He mentioned that she had started dating a guy that Joe didn't especially approve of, since he didn't have a real job. We asked what he did. "He's a musician. He's the lead singer in his band." We agreed that wasn't a good long term prospect. Joe said the band might not be too terrible, since they had a recording contract. We ask the name, thinking there was an off chance we might have heard of them. He said, "They call themselves 'The Fallout Boys'" and kind of rolled his eyes at how dumb a name it was. Julie and I looked at each other, then looked at Joe, then I said, "Your daughter is dating Patrick Stump, the lead singer for Fall Out Boy?" He just got this really shocked look on his face and said, "You know him?"

Yeah, totally clueless that his daughter was dating a dude in a band that was actually well known. I guess he revised his opinion, because his daughter married Stump.