Reflections on the death of a great American
By A friend once noted that the most unnecessary liner note in history was Lou Reed writing on The Blue Mask that “my guitar is on the right stereo channel.” The one on the left belonged to the incomparableRobert Quine, who passed away this weekend. He was an incredibly gifted player. Many won’t have heard of him, but you may well treasure an album his sound defined: Reed’s two great early-80s albums, Tom Waits’s Rain Dogs, Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend and Altered Beast, Richard Hell’s Blank Generation, They Might Be Giants’s John Henry, among many others. R.I.P.
Stay off the smack, kiddies.