RE: (TV) Sad news...

["Murray Ramone" <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000526473

Guitarist Robert Quine, one of punk rock's most daring soloists, was found 
dead Saturday (June 5) in his New York apartment. He was 61. According to 
close friend and guitar maker Rick Kelly, who discovered Quine's body, the 
musician died of a heroin overdose Memorial Day weekend. He had been 
despondent over the recent death of his wife.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Quine was heavily influenced by the Velvet Underground, 
whose music he recorded obsessively while living in San Francisco. He moved 
to New York in 1971 and became the lead guitarist for bassist Richard Hell's 
important group the Voidoids, with whom he recorded two albums. His 
skittering, unpredictable work with Hell defined the possibilities of punk 
guitar.

During the '80s, he recorded and toured frequently with Lou Reed and played 
on saxophonist/composer John Zorn's best-known albums. Quine made key guest 
appearances on Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs" (1985) and Marianne Faithfull's 
"Strange Weather" (1987). In 1989, he began a long association with Matthew 
Sweet; he also worked regularly with Lloyd Cole.

In 2001, Universal released a three-CD box of Quine's live 1969 recordings 
of the Velvet Underground, "The Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes."

"Robert Quine was a magnificent guitar player -- an original and innovative 
tyro of the vintage beast," Reed says in a statement released to 
Billboard.com. "He was an extraordinary mixture of taste, intelligence and 
rock'n'roll abilities coupled with major technique and a scholar's memory 
for every decent guitar lick ever played under the musical son. He made 
tapes for me for which I am eternally grateful -- tapes of the juiciest 
parts of solos from players long gone. Quine was smarter than them all. And 
the proof is in the recordings, some of which happily are mine. If you can 
find more interesting sounds and musical clusters than Quine on 'Waves of 
Fear' [from Reed's 1982 album "The Blue Mask"], well, it's probably 
something else by Robert."

"He was a marvelous guitarist, a soulful music lover with high standards and 
had an eviscerating wit," Patti Smith Band drummer Jay Dee Daugherty tells 
Billboard.com. "He did not suffer fools gladly, but made up for it with a 
thinly disguised generosity of spirit."

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