Elliot Smith?

Just heard that he died. Can anyone confirm this?

Originally posted by sean Just heard that he died. Can anyone confirm this?

Yeah, just saw it on Yahoo News, apparently of a self-inflicted stab wound (wierd, really)

here's what i could find

Originally posted by sean here's what i could find

That's pretty much what they said on Yahoo (they got it from the AP)

barry white, mr. cash, and now elliot smith? who's next?

or maybe bob geldof.

Yeah, real funny guys. Ha de fucking ha. Show some respect - not just because he was an amazing artist, but because he's entitled to it as a human being.

Originally posted by dub Yeah, real funny guys. Ha de fucking ha. Show some respect - not just because he was an amazing artist, but because he's entitled to it as a human being.

Yeah, now that I look back on it a few hours later, we were horribly out of line. I apologize, and I have taken the step of deleting my portion of the "joking around". About the only thing I could offer as even a measly defense is that, often when I hear news or something happens that doesn't quite register right away (traumatic or unbelieveable, as ES's death was), I tend to fall back on humor as a way to deal with it. it's probably not the best way, but it's gotten me through several times that would've been hard otherwise.

Elliot Smith barely registered with me as little more than just "that guy on the 'Good Will Hunting' soundtrack", but he does deserve more than what I, for my part, did this afternoon. To dub and anyone else I offended with what I wrote this afternoon, I apologize.

I had the pleasure of seeing him play an acoustic show in Seattlea few years ago. Pretty good stuff, some of it. I'm sure lots of indie rockers are crying themselves to sleep tonight. Ironic, isn't it, that one of his songs ("Needle in the Hay") was used fairly recently in "The Royal Tenenbaums" as the music for the scene in which Ritchie attempts to kill himself by wrist-slashing?

Who's Elliot Smith?

Originally posted by dub Yeah, real funny guys. Ha de fucking ha. Show some respect - not just because he was an amazing artist, but because he's entitled to it as a human being.

and bob geldof isn't a human being?

but in all seriousness, i am upset by his death. if you'll notice, the list started with three respected musicians. and then continued with tabs and i fucking around. if you take that as me trying to belittle mr smith's death, i think you are misunderstanding me. i hope we don't have to add anymore to the list. but, if there was to be another death in the music world, i would rather loose mr geldof than say, bobby krieger.

Just wanted to mention that I listened to a special two-hour show of Elliot Smith's music last night, on the college radio station. Some really good stuff all around, makes me kinda sad I never got anything of his back when he was still around.

The unfortunate thing is that there's so much music around these days that it's just impossible to get around listening to everything that may be interesting, especially with less commercial artists - luckily a colleague of mine is a huge fan and got me onto him a few years back, but I'm sure there are many more artists out there that I would love, if only I got the opportunity to listen to them - it's a neverending quest, eg found Pete Yorn by randomly choosing his CD on a listening post at Borders, found Joy Division on a nameless compilation tape of my brother in 1981. I tried listening to Elliott Smith over the last week, but it just seems to weird just yet - same with Nirvana, couldn't listen to their stuff for ages after Kurt's death, esp the MTV unplugged show.

Originally posted by dub The unfortunate thing is that there's so much music around these days that it's just impossible to get around listening to everything that may be interesting, especially with less commercial artists - luckily a colleague of mine is a huge fan and got me onto him a few years back, but I'm sure there are many more artists out there that I would love, if only I got the opportunity to listen to them - it's a neverending quest, eg found Pete Yorn by randomly choosing his CD on a listening post at Borders, found Joy Division on a nameless compilation tape of my brother in 1981.I tried listening to Elliott Smith over the last week, but it just seems to weird just yet - same with Nirvana, couldn't listen to their stuff for ages after Kurt's death, esp the MTV unplugged show.

Usually the first few months after someone in film or music that I admired passes away, I can't really watch or listen to their stuff. Usually as far as musicians go, I'll play maybe one night of their music as a sort of "tribute" but that's it until I can fully register that the person who sang it just died. I think I listened to the Clash for about a week in late December (after Joe Strummer died) but I have yet to watch the documentary "Westway to the World" all the way through after the initial viewing.

Probably the most traumatic celebrity death for me was Phil Hartman's, I found it incredibly hard to watch any footage of him for about a year. It was too much to take, this beautifully funny man who was taken far too soon. So I guess what I'm saying is I know what you're talking about.

Yeah, Phil Harman was absolutely brilliant - every single time that Troy McClure appears on The Simpsons I just think what a waste it was - he could do anything with that voice of his

Indeed. Phil Hartman was a bonafide hero.

Damn the crazy woman; Hartman would have definitely become the biggest star from SNL, rather than Mike Myers.