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Sad news.
Seen The Stranglers many times over years.
Always left the gigs feeling like I had been in a road traffic accident.
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Dave from the stranglers has passed with the virus has been bad for a while with his heart, RIP Dave.
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Sad news.
Seen The Stranglers many times over years.
Always left the gigs feeling like I had been in a road traffic accident.
Pitch
Very sad news!.
Saw them a couple of years ago - great set.
RIP
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
RIP Golden Brown
I saw them many times, by far my favourite punk band (though not really punk). Battersea Park 1978 was the highlight for me.
They actually drove a Chieftain Tank through the audience! The sleazettes got the show stopped in the end....what a day.
Amazing player. RIP Dave
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Picking up souvenirs along the way tooOriginally Posted by Pitch3110
The highlight of my old record collection, first five albums and very single released from the. RIP Dave, one less hero
Will have a little reflection and play all those albums (albeit on deezer) tomorrow starting with the fabulous 'Rattus Norvegicus'!
First band I ever saw. Still listen to the first four albums regularly.
Very sad news.
Definitely a night for a bit of Rattus Norvegicus, what an album.
RIP Dave
Oh my God.
Early stranglers stuff was one of my first ventures into music as a young boy. RIP
Saw them live in Newport in the '80s (post Hugh Cornwell), fantastic gig, fantastic band. As Hugh has later said regarding Dave " he was the difference between us and every other punk band". RIP.
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Early days of punk on a train trying to get to one of their gigs,I was 17 some of the punks where even younger,now it’s all bald old men
I remember us getting abuse of some of the adults, I didn’t dress like a punk so stood in between to protect them.
The gig was cancelled when we arrived,sadly I never did get to see them live.
Rattus norvegicus was a favourite at the time I bought another copy last year having lost the original.
This death got to me RIP Dave
Oi.....shhhhhhhhh
First saw the Stranglers at the Top Rank in Reading at the end of 1977 and have seen them lots of times since. I've been to their last 3 appearances at Readings Hexagon and would have been there in March if the pandemic hadn't put paid to It.
Dave's party trick at the last few gigs I saw was playing the keyboard sequence to No More Heroes one handed whilst drinking a bottle of beer with the other!
RIP Dave, and thanks for writing one of the best tracks of my youth.
I was sad to hear this yesterday. I really liked them in their late '70s heyday and I'm still most fond of those early singles - Grip, Go Buddy Go, Hanging Around, Straighten Out, Peaches and one or two others that I've probably forgotten. I saw them at Newcastle City Hall in '77, the same week that No More Heroes came out but that was the only time. I tuned out after they went a bit mellow and twee.
Two overriding memories of that gig - when they came on stage, just before launching into No More Heroes with that familiar bass intro, Hugh Cornwell sneered into his mic "there's no more 'eroes, cuz they're all dead". And later in the gig, a young lad climbed onto the stage unmolested by band or security and announced into one of the vocal mics in near-impenenetrable Geordie: "we want to heeya Goah Buddy Goah!"
But they didn't play it.
I just came across this on YouTube. It's a fan made tribute to Dave Greenfield made using computer magic. Other than the video, there's no actual Dave Brubeck content.
Sad to hear this. Love the stranglers. My Dad had golden brown played on the hospital radio the day I was born.
Awful news but unfortunately its getting to that time when those young spunkers from the late 70's are young spunkers no more...........
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The video is taken from The Dave Brubeck Quartet playing Take 5, another favourite.
I'm not sure Jet Black was even a young spunker in the 70's. He's 81 now. And more power to his elbows.
Yeah, you are right there. The last few years he has been playing less and less, sharing the duties with his son i believe. His health hasn't been great for a while but yes, 81 and still performing in a punk band!
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He was on the BBC news recently(Jet Black) sat on the couch, in the studio, wearing sun glasses, a woolen hat and winter coat. He did always look old, even back in the day.
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