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Title: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: Reverend Rock on March 17, 2010, 11:05:00 PM If Memphis had a Brian Wilson, he was probably this guy. Lead singer of the Box Tops and musical mad genius behind the very influential underground Memphis band Big Star, Alex Chilton is dead at the age of 59.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/mar/17/memphis-musician-alex-chilton-dies/ Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: A Million Units In Jan! on March 18, 2010, 02:05:07 AM Just a couple months back, Mojo had an article on Big Star, and I've been thinking about checking out some of their tunes. A very influential band, indeed.
Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll on March 18, 2010, 03:41:45 AM absolutely gutted by this :-[ :-[ :-[ true legend
Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: damdamdam on March 18, 2010, 06:07:01 AM Yeah, he was one of the greats.
He covered "I Wanna Pick You Up," too. :) RIP Alex. Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: matt-zeus on March 18, 2010, 06:42:22 AM Very sad about this, Alex and Big Star were one of the bands that got me into making my own music. Brilliant albums and utterly fresh and very modern sounding, ahead of their time for sure.
Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: donald on March 22, 2010, 06:49:46 PM Terri Gross reran her 90's interview with
Alex a few nights ago on NPR. You can go to NPR/Fresh Air to listen to the rebroadcast right here inside your computer! A neat character and fine musical force in his time, Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: Alex on March 23, 2010, 12:16:59 PM September gurls, do so much...
Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: The Heartical Don on March 27, 2010, 04:21:15 AM Great artist. There's a nice Big Star Box Set out there. Covers everything (I think all official studio recordings are included).
Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: Pablo. on March 30, 2010, 12:11:19 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yD_YeSuTzQ
They had already kind of rewritten this song's intro (and they first four words) for their own "Turn my back on the sun". Chilton was great Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll on May 04, 2010, 04:25:53 AM That was a great show! traveled to both big star london show in the last few years. It just goes to show that you should always take the opportunity to see great artists as you never know whats around the corner. This is a really cool interview - http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2010/04/post_7.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yD_YeSuTzQ They had already kind of rewritten this song's intro (and they first four words) for their own "Turn my back on the sun". Chilton was great Title: Re: R.I.P. Alex Chilton Post by: Rocker on January 18, 2011, 02:39:49 AM If Memphis had a Brian Wilson, he was probably this guy. Memphis didn't need no Brian Wilson. There's so much great music and already enough talent coming out of that city, unbelievable (nothing against Brian of course). I was just listening to The Box Tops' "Non stop"-album. Such a wonderful record ! Can't believe I ignored them for so long.... (http://www.garytalley.com/images/denniswilson.jpg) |