We’re still in shock over losing Jay Bennett on Sunday morning. The cause of Bennett’s death still isn’t known after the preliminary autopsy reports came back inconclusive according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Bloggers have taken to the web to pay tribute to to the fallen multi-instrumentalist along with Jeff Tweedy – who issued a statement on Wilco’s website yesterday. We’ve read a number of these articles and wanted to share some links to the best of ’em…
- TG,TB and TU lists the 10 Best Jay Bennett Songs
- Greg Kot pens an obit and lists his favorite JB songs
- TAMR shares a Jay Bennett and Ed Burch bootleg
- Rock & Roll Ghost eulogizes Jay Bennett as a friend
- Glide’s Brian Robbins was one of the last to interview JB
- Rock Proper offers a legal, free download of JB’s solo disc
- For a behind the scenes look at the disintegration of Jeff Tweedy’s relationship with Jay Bennett check out this 2002 Magnet article
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This is all so weird. Everybody is just pretending like they weren’t ripping Bennett a new one like 3 days ago.
Has there ever been a more obvious, “Fuck you guys then. I don’t need this shit anymore. Peace out” moment?
I guess we better wait for the “autopsy.”
Ryan, I was thinking the same thing this morning. Last week I read some of the nastiest shit about Jay and now everyone is saying what a stand up guy he was. I don’t understand all the hatred, he was in a band, they kicked him out, they started raking in the dough and he turned bitter. It happens all the time.
There’s a difference between taking a guy to task for suing his old band mate over a film he didn’t make and not appreciating the man as a musician and artist.