The Wilco stuff was fine, but I buried myself really deep in that first Titanic Love Affair album in the early 90s as a way of coping with the end of The Replacements. The guy was a fantastic songwriter, even if he was something of a stuffy curmudgeon. Will be missed RIP
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 May 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I listened to those Yankee Hotel Foxtrot demos more than I did the actual released album. His exit from that band was a big loss.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 25 May 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus, unreal
rip
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 25 May 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
weirdly been listening to summerteeth a lot lately for some reason. really sad.
― akm, Monday, 25 May 2009 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow that's really awful.
― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Monday, 25 May 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
He was great. I believe he was much smarter than Tweedy, if not more "talented." He was an irrecoverable loss to Wilco. And now a loss to everyone.
I do not entirely understand what he died from. He had his hip replaced... and then what? Infection? Rejection? At his age, he should not have died from that kind of surgery unless... well... unless his immune system was already very weak. I will not deign to speculate.
:(
― my features are so intense (kenan), Monday, 25 May 2009 06:59 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck
― Ludo, Monday, 25 May 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
wow shit, just found out. there's a kind of empty feeling in my gut right now.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 25 May 2009 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Kenan, by posting "I will not deign to speculate" you ARE speculating. The guy underwent major surgery which is ALWAYS a risk no matter how old or healthy you are.
Very sad news.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 May 2009 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus that sucks
― Bathtime at the Apollo (G00blar), Monday, 25 May 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
that's really terrible, RIP.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 25 May 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, that's really sad. just 45, and from the blurb i gather he just got some shit together/sorted out to keep going with life.
― "B1 is the one for me" (willem), Monday, 25 May 2009 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP; this guy brought a lot of light to my life, and many others, at innumerable shows over the years. Bizarre and dreadful news.
― dulce est desipere in loco (Euler), Monday, 25 May 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP. So sad. I remember seeing him and Jeff Tweedy play an acoustic show together around Mermaid Avenue. He could really, really play.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 25 May 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ah damn :(
RIP
― your porno name is rodd tundgren (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 25 May 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Playing Summerteeth now- RIP dude
― ColinO, Monday, 25 May 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP. For Summerteeth and Being There, he deserves props. I don't know to what extent it's a coincidence that I lost interest in Wilco after his exit, but anyway.
― Freedom, Monday, 25 May 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn. I talked to him one night when he popped in to guest with The Reputation and he was extremely likable and funny. RIP
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, that post also makes me wonder if he thought suing Tweedy wasn't something he really wanted to do, but was getting hard up to pay for the surgery.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I'll save the speculation for later, just a thought. Still kinda stunned by this tbh.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
very sad about this, re-read this interview i did with him in 2001 or 2002. this was one of the first interviews i ever did (if not the first) and i was pretty starstruck -- at the time I was heavily into Summerteeth and YHF. I really overstate the awesomeness of Palace at 4am, but maybe I'll pull it out and have a listen again. http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=195
― tylerw, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I might be wrong, but the Wilco arguments seemed to have as much to do with who was on what drugs when as it did with the music.
― Eazy, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeff Tweedy is gracious and honorable in his first comments about Jay Bennett's passing:
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Bennett's former band, was on tour in Europe when the news arrived. "We are all deeply saddened by this tragedy," he said. "We will miss Jay as we remember him -- as a truly unique and gifted human being and one who made welcome and significant contributions to the band's songs and evolution. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends in this very difficult time."
As you'd expect, but it's still nice to hear.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 May 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
really really sad news
"I do not entirely understand what he died from. He had his hip replaced... and then what? Infection? Rejection? At his age, he should not have died from that kind of surgery unless... well... unless his immune system was already very weak"
possibly a fat embolism? often when fractures or orthopedic surgeries occur, this situation can develop. bone marrow may leak into the circulatory system and enter the lungs or brain and cause arrest. i'm not a medical doctor, but this is how i understand it and perhaps this is what happened.
regardless, great loss to music
― sknybrg, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
From this message, he hadn't had the surgery yet.
― Eazy, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. even more tragic then.
― sknybrg, Monday, 25 May 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha, how is that more tragic?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 May 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
a very fair question!
― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 25 May 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i understood that he died from complications to a surgery - which is always horrible but always a possibility. that he died before it even happened - an apparently "accidental" death? yeah, more tragic imo.it's absurd to even discuss cause he's gone and that fucking sucks
― sknybrg, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
This is terribly sad. There was a terrific interview with him in Amplifier in the late 90's/2000 about Summerteeth in which he confessed his love for early Bee Gees (not an easy admission to make back then) and discussed his use of the Chamberlain, a precursor to the Mellotron.
I really thought a lot of his playing on that record and concur with others who noted that his departure from Wilco was a real loss -- they never have equaled that partnership again, IMO.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah its gonna turn a game from a 13 pt lead
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oops wrong thread sorry!
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
For a second I'm all "Well that's one way to look at it..."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude seems to have gotten the short end of the Tweedy stick w/ the Wilco thing. I dunno what exactly he contributed, but BT, ST & YHT are easily my fave Wilco records, so it was probably something pretty vital. RIP big guy.
― "alt-black" (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Sad news.
I suppose Tweedy won't have to worry much about that pending Bennett lawsuit, then.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
when i have the time, i'm going to post a Bennett-era Wilco bootleg from 2000 on my blog. That was the first time I saw Wilco and he definitely owned the band at that point, playing lead guitar, all kinds of keyboards, tons of backing vocals. I can kind of see why Tweedy -- as good as the music was -- felt like he had been usurped as the leader of the group.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Yikes: Did a lack of health-insurance contribute to Jay Bennett's passing? If so, it makes a tragic story even more horribly sad.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
And lack of health insurance could easily have been the reason for that lawsuit last week.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/bennettwiki.jpg
― velko, Monday, 15 June 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
omgawd
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 15 June 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i was trying to find info on his autopsy and came across that from some dallas rag
― velko, Monday, 15 June 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
just read something about more tests being done to determine cause of death
― velko, Monday, 15 June 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
that's really funny... but honestly, it was my first thought when I heard.
― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
That's fucked up that Jeff Tweedy would do something like that.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
What a disaster for Wilco.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Coroner says overdose.
― still counting on porcupine racetrack (G00blar), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
still sad about this. live show i mentioned upthread is over here: http://ow.ly/fFF6 it's awesome
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of figured that was the case, thanks for posting.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Why is this a disaster for Wilco?
Also, coroner doesn't say "overdose" -- he says "accidental overdose." Big difference.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
read the wikipedia snapshot
― Jesus Christ, Chiropractor at Law (res), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
definitely. fentanyl is a very, very strong opiod, and there have been recalls and lawsuits associated with some types of those transdermal patches.
― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Again, why is an obviously made up wiki item a "disaster for Wilco."
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"what a disaster for ( )" is a lil ilx in-joke i believe
― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link