What did he do? I saw him with Ringo's All Starr Band last summer, and he rocked. Good guitar player too.
Closet Billy Squier fan here, too. I also think he is a good/underrated guitar player. Some of his songs have even crossed over to rap as samples! Whodathunkit?
What did he do? I saw him with Ringo's All Starr Band last summer, and he rocked. Good guitar player too.
That's what I'm wondering. He does this too - Billy Squier is an active volunteer for the Central Park Conservancy, doing the hands-on "dirty work" by maintaining 20 acres of the park, as well as promoting the Conservancy in articles and interviews. He also supports the Group for the East End and its native planting programs on eastern Long Island. I think that's cool.
Therefore he killed his own career (see topic title). Altho for purposes of this thread, I think suicides should be disqualified from consideration as being a tad overreaching.
How about accidental OD's? Like, say, Janis Joplin. I think I know the answer and I agree - this thread should be about people who killed their careers by doing something abysmally stupid or making some bad choices, not about dead people.
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Therefore he killed his own career (see topic title). Altho for purposes of this thread, I think suicides should be disqualified from consideration as being a tad overreaching.
I would have to disagree with that one, he was getting mad props before his suicide. I don't think that it built his legend or anything, just a sad story and a great lost to his singer-songwriter generation.
Therefore he killed his own career (see topic title). Altho for purposes of this thread, I think suicides should be disqualified from consideration as being a tad overreaching.
I would have to disagree with that one, he was getting mad props before his suicide. I don't think that it built his legend or anything, just a sad story and a great lost to his singer-songwriter generation.
Absolutely. Nick had only sold a few thousand of each of his albums and had fallen off of the map quickly in the 70s, once disco and Led Zep took over... In 85 or 86 the 3 albums were put out as a box set and suddenly there were all these people saying he'd been a huge influence (Peter Buck, Robert Smith)... so the alternative kids were introduced to him——and he still didn't sell. But one of those kids grew up to work at an ad agency. Other songs considered were by the Church and the Cure, so... somehow that English folkie managed to finally catch on with the 80s goth kids.
Speaking of dead, here's an interesting obituary: Robert Kirby. Nick Drake's producer, died Oct. 3 '09... It picks up right in the middle of the story for some reason but hey.
On the subjects of suicide-related career spikes and "legends": Nick Drake became more popular in the last ten years or so than he ever could have imagined during his lifetime. Though I guess it's debatable whether or not his "suicide" was intentional and there was a 25-year delay anyhow.
holy crap! that could be the new rick roll'd
