RIP Dave Greenfield

[Seventy]

Penned one of the greatest songs of the eighties if not all time imo.

Rest in peace, musical legend.
I’ll be listening to a few later.

Dave Greenfield: The Stranglers keyboard player dies at 71 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5253...

[Rockatansky]

Aw man, that's too bad.

Loved the stranglers, early stuff in particular.

[Morris12s3]

Awful news, they were such a great live act.

[Dixy]

No more heroes. Seeing them live at Le Mans was an evening to remember.

[AC43]

Sad news.

I spray painted the Stranglers logo on my school bag when I was a teenager.

Saw them live in the Edinburgh Playhouse in maybe 79 or 80.

Great band, amazing keyboards.

RIP.

[AC43]

I'll just leave this here. Yes I know it's a cover, but just listen to the keyboards. Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

[Mr Dendrite]

First proper gig I went to was the No more Heroes tour at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1977. The album was released in September, the gig must been October or Early November. A defining moment in my life as a 14yr old. RIP The music was awesome...

[timmo]

I saw them at the Top Hat Dunlaoghaire in 76 or 77.

Brilliant live

[J4CKO]

He wrote Golden Brown, one of the most distinctive songs I can think of, can remember it from when it came out and as a kid wondering "What the hell is this", its a marvellous thing, my middle son discovered it some years back and played it non stop for ages, think its partly what got him into writing music.

[rover 623gsi]

AC43 said:

I'll just leave this here. Yes I know it's a cover, but just listen to the keyboards. Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

Sublime.

RIP.

[Seventy]

AC43 said:

I'll just leave this here. Yes I know it's a cover, but just listen to the keyboards. Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

I hope you don’t mind me just saying that I know what you mean by being a cover but in case anyone was thinking that ‘I’m not listening to a cover’ it’s still absolutely the Stranglers and absolutely as you say, beautiful.

[AC43]

Seventy said:

AC43 said:

I'll just leave this here. Yes I know it's a cover, but just listen to the keyboards. Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

I hope you don’t mind me just saying that I know what you mean by being a cover but in case anyone was thinking that ‘I’m not listening to a cover’ it’s still absolutely the Stranglers and absolutely as you say, beautiful.

[Rockatansky]

AC43 said:

I'll just leave this here. Yes I know it's a cover, but just listen to the keyboards. Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

Absolutely. Good call.

The keyboards with that bass from JJB is sublime.

[Pupp]

Just love their working of Walk on By... completely respectful of the brilliant original but with something really edgy and vital added. Fantastic interplay between complex keys and that crunching bass. Phenominal stuff

[mikeiow]

Pleased I recently picked one of their albums (Rattus Norvegicus, but could have been others) for my "an album a day for 10 days"......cracking band.

Only saw them at Rock City a couple of years back - they were brilliant. A clip here - jump to after 2' 40" to see Dave in his element, tinkling out the music whilst having a drink!

R.I.P.

[Trevatanus]

Dixy said:

No more heroes. Seeing them live at Le Mans was an evening to remember.

Just about to post this. 2009, my only Le Mans trip (thus far)

[Pesty]

Still have golden brown on my Spotify playlist.

[so called]

Rockatansky said:

AC43 said:

I'll just leave this here. Yes I know it's a cover, but just listen to the keyboards. Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

Absolutely. Good call.

The keyboards with that bass from JJB is sublime.

I've always loved that. Always gets a repeat play.
RIP and thanks.

[Mort7]

Sad news. Brings back memories of Bracknell Sports Centre, 1977. Someone at the front of the audience was spitting on stage, Jean-Jacques Burnel (bass) asked them to stop. They didn't, so he put his bass down, jumped into the audience, and beat the crap out of the guy, while the band played on. Then he got back on stage and carried on like nothing had happened. Happy days!

[Lotobear]

So sad,

Walk on By, Stranglers version, is so good even Bacharach and, I think, Dionne praised it.

An epic track, I played the single to death back in the day - in contrast the B side contained the weird but nevertheless wonderful 'Old Codger' featuring non other than George Melly.

Such an original band and Greenfield always impressed me as a Hammond fan. Influenced by Jon Lord and Yes, not by Manzarek as often thought.

Like the Clash, a band of middle class musos rather than true punks per se (though the comparison ends there!)