If He Died in Old Age That'd Be Cool

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]

Children by the millions are cheering.

[hated it]

Jeez, what a crappy site.

[jet]

Invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.

[Warren]

But what happened to Fats?

[Russ D]

The water by his house was soul deep.

[eric mattingly]

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.

[So close!]

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

[Jeff P.]

However, Bob Denver is dead.

[arch_stanton]

Where's Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown?

[dead_elvis]

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.

[Stevo Darkly]

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. 🙂

[Rhywun]

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.

[CML]

I'm in love with that song.

[Jim Walsh]

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...)