If He Died in Old Age That'd Be Cool

Matt Welch | September 6, 2005

A shred of good Katrina news for left-of-the-dial indie rockers everywhere -- Alex Chilton has been found. (Link via Bill Seitz.)

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Baylen|9.6.05 @ 1:07PM|#

Children by the millions are cheering.

|9.6.05 @ 1:12PM|#

Jeez, what a crappy site.

|9.6.05 @ 1:27PM|#

Invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.

Warren|9.6.05 @ 1:32PM|#

But what happened to Fats?

|9.6.05 @ 1:53PM|#

The water by his house was soul deep.

|9.6.05 @ 2:08PM|#

Well, I'm not quite hip enough to recognize the bloke by name, but when I looked it up and found he was in Big Star, well then, I was at least hip enough to nod cooly and feel independently gratified.

|9.6.05 @ 3:06PM|#

If he died in Memphis, that'd be cool.

Jeff P.|9.6.05 @ 3:22PM|#

However, Bob Denver is dead.

|9.6.05 @ 3:53PM|#

Where's Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown?

|9.6.05 @ 5:07PM|#

If he died in Memphis, that'd be cool.

Memphis worships him (or rather, the alt-coolness he confers on Memphis) with near-diety status. That would just be the icing on the cake for Memphis, which already reeks of being a music museum. It's heyday is long gone, but they'll be moldily reliving the glory years for centuries to come.

|9.6.05 @ 5:18PM|#

near-diety status. That would just be the icing on the cake for Memphis,

If it's diety, that would be sugar-free icing, of course. :)

|9.6.05 @ 5:42PM|#

Huh. I always thought becuase of that Replacements song that he was, uh... dead. Guess not! PS I bought the first two Big Star albums a few months ago to see what all the fuss was about - great stuff.

|9.6.05 @ 5:44PM|#

I'm in love with that song.

|9.7.05 @ 3:48AM|#

New Orleans radio station WWOZ has an ongoing list of local musicians alive and accounted for. (Among the names you'll know are Fats, Allan Toussaint, and the inimitable Susan Cowsill...)