Mink/Willy Deville C/D, S/D

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To add a little seediness and salaciousness...

I recall that he was staying in the same fleabag New Orleans hotel as Johnny Thunders when J.T. tied off for the last time. Willy said he didn't know anything about it.

JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

i've always liked "coup de grace". and that song he did for the "princess bride" soundtrack is oh so sweet... ;)

cecilia, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

search - let me dream if i want to

mig, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...
CLASSIC. Soooooo underrated. "Savoir Faire", "Spanish Stroll", "This Must be The Night", etc etc. Such great songs. All the Mink Deville albums are great, and some of his solo stuff is too, like the one produced by Mark knopfler "Desire".

Shlomo Shemesh (Shlomo Shemesh), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"Cabretta," or "Mink DeVille," is still a personal fave from when I was a kid. Nice, er, strut, as we used to say, and really gorgeous ballads -- search "Party Girls," "She's So Tough" (awesome) and "Can't Do Without It."

A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

he's a shaman now? (dutch language site and commentary, but he talks in english, obv)

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/vrtnieuws.net/mediatheek/1.154858

StanM, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Pancreatic cancer :-(

http://www.willydevillemusic.com/index.php?page=news&n_id=79

StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link

wow, that's awful. I'm a huge Mink DeVille fan, grew up with his records playing constantly in my house. I hate it that he seems to be living in such obscurity

iamwitty (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I meant THEY'RE records playing constantly, although Willy DeVille albums got played, as well

iamwitty (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

RIP

Ludo, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.openluchttheater.be/var/media/agenda/WillyDV.jpg

Ludo, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link

man. this is the worst summer ever.

RIP Willy

surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link

French/German language news reports here so far:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=willy%20deville&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP...

George and I discussed him on the Rolling Hard Rock thread earlier this summer, starting with this post:

Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock 2009

xhuxk, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link

r.i.p.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BshPidce4

flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 August 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Anyone else love 'Just your Friends' off Return to Magenta?

RIP

sonofstan, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP. I totally fucking love this guy. Miss you tons, dude.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 8 August 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Shit, we were listening to "Cadillac Walk" only last night, and "Spanish Stroll" is one of my partner's all-time favourite records. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wKV2TKanI

mike t-diva, Sunday, 9 August 2009 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Just found about this. RIP Willy.

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link

My dad played some of his old tracks. :-( Fuck, this has been an awful year.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

interesting bit here on toots deville, who sounds ... interesting from a distance, and probably a disaster up close.

flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link

(or maybe not a disaster, exactly -- the final couple of comments to that post give some added perspective.)

flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link

R.I.P. Wished I had tracked down the dude. one of the few folks left who could tell me about Jack Nitzsche, i reckon.

beta blog, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP

interesting bit here on toots deville, who sounds ... interesting from a distance, and probably a disaster up close.

I highly recommend the Doc Pomus bio by Alex Halberstadt that is quoted in that link.

Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

man i have been really jamming on his first two recrods lately. how long does he keep this up? cuz these are fucking great.

proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Wow I started this thread 17 years ago. Astounding. Well, to answer myself then. his mid-'90s solo album Backstreets of Desire is unexpectedly good.

That Toots DeVille link is still active and quite interesting. One picture of Willie, Toots and his manager sitting in wheelchair had me thinking manager was Doc Pomus for a second.

Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 February 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link


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