[kj] Rourke

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Antoni Adamiak at one point forwarded the article about Rourke being in KJ
for three days and then fired, or so the attached article says, for being
"too miserable." (It's the article Alex Smith mentions in this thread.) I
feel bad for Rourke, who also did a stint in The Pretenders as bassist.
Dying at 59 from pancreatic cancer seems a particularly awful way to go.
Not that there's any good way to go when cancer's involved. My
understanding is pancreatic cancer can be especially rapid.

If that's Rourke on bass on that "Beautiful Dead" version Rob C. mentions,
that's a great version indeed. Too bad, as with Hooky, it didn't work out
for longer, though then we would not have had the return of Paul Raven, I
guess.

I've attached the article in the interests of, well, just seeing what it
said, though now the piece seems pretty glib and shitty. I don't know Andy
Rourke's side of the story with his brief involvement with KJ but I'm sure
he has one. Clipping via Antoni Adamiak.


On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 9:28 AM Rob Cannell via Gathering <
gathering at misera.net> wrote:

> I think he played on the Beautiful Dead flexi-disc version that was
> eventually on The Singles Collection compilation. It’s my favourite
> version, Geordie's guitar was captured so well on that. Huge!
>
>
>
> > On 20 May 2023, at 12:37, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think they ever got as far as doing any actual recording. I
> think it was just more a matter of personal chemistry -- and I do dimly
> remember a vague allegation that Andy might have been grappling with a drug
> problem, but who knows? The party line, at the time, was that he was
> "miserable," which seems odd, after only a three-day stint.
> >
> > To your point, however, he was indeed a giant of a bass player -- a fact
> that gets largely overlooked in the rush to rightfully praise Johnny Marr's
> guitar heroics and, of course, the preening insufferableness of Morrissey,
> a condition that seems to worsen with every passing year. If the word
> "miserable" is to be credibly branded, there's your perfect target right
> there, but I digress.
> >
> > -Alex in NYC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <
> gathering at misera.net>
> > Sent: May 20, 2023 4:35 AM
> > To: <gathering at misera.net>
> > Subject: [kj] Rourke
> >
> > Sad to hear about Andy Rourke’s death today. Still recall that
> photo of him, Jaz, Geordie and Martin Akins toasting the new line-up, only
> to have him sacked a few days later. Appreciated the Smiths (not the
> biggest fan) and he was an incredible bass player…does anyone know
> if they ever recorded anything together?
> >
> > Harold
> > Honolulu, HI
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