Wilko Johnson has died 😢

[billum]

A really brave guy, battling with cancer and then coming back to playing live - saw him a few months ago, as well as at the farm. A true original. Very sad news.

[billum]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63728503

[billum]

 

[Pinhead]

Glad I got to see him live before this. RIP.

[4AssedMonkey]

Just saw that in the news.  Very sad, but I guess he got 8 years more than he expected.  RIP.

[gigpusher]

22 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

Just saw that in the news.  Very sad, but I guess he got 8 years more than he expected.  RIP.

Yep not many people are lucky enough to get that 2nd chance that he got and he made the most of it. RIP

[funksoulfever]

so sad i loved ian dury and the blockheads

[Avalon_Fields]

I wasn’t expecting that sad news. I’m old/lucky enough to have seen him with Dr Feelgood in 1975 at the famous Glasgow Apollo, and can still recall the feeling when he burst out with a guitar solo and the manic jig he did. Roxette and Back in the Night, etc. He was a real original.

He was also a highlight for me at this year’s Bearded Theory, he still had what it takes. (And wow Norman Watt-Roy on bass confirmed to me he’s one of the greatest bassists ever). 
 

Anyone interested, check out the film Oil City Confidential, it’s a classic.

 

Edited November 23, 2022 by Avalon_Fields

[TheGoodWillOut]

RIP 

[Cooter]

A truly unique, gifted and all round nice bloke. RIP

[steviewevie]

RIP. Amazing musician, amazing bloke.

[steviewevie]

6 hours ago, billum said:

 

everything about that video is brilliant. Thanks.

[MrZigster]

One of those guitarists in a league of their own. Just fantastic to watch.

[Sawdusty surfer]

A word that is overused now but I'm still going to say it......Legend. 

 

[guypjfreak]

1 hour ago, Sawdusty surfer said:

A word that is overused now but I'm still going to say it......Legend. 

 

Init old son x

[Beerqueen]

10 hours ago, billum said:

A really brave guy, battling with cancer and then coming back to playing live - saw him a few months ago, as well as at the farm. A true original. Very sad news.

He was misdiagnosed with cancer about 10 years ago wasn't he?  Was that got him in the end?  We went to see him at our local theatre earlier in the year, so glad I got to see him.

[Derby_Dave]

11 hours ago, billum said:

 

My mates band covers this.  
 

this is better. 😉😂

[billum]

1 hour ago, Beerqueen said:

He was misdiagnosed with cancer about 10 years ago wasn't he?  Was that got him in the end?  We went to see him at our local theatre earlier in the year, so glad I got to see him.

Yes they thought he had pancreatic cancer, but it was in fact Neuroendocrine tumours which are much slower to develop. An operation helped give him some more years, but of course it gets you in the end 😢

[gigpusher]

9 hours ago, Beerqueen said:

He was misdiagnosed with cancer about 10 years ago wasn't he?  Was that got him in the end?  We went to see him at our local theatre earlier in the year, so glad I got to see him.

He had cancer it was just misdiagnosed as being terminal at the time. He started doing a load of goodbye shows was due to play Glastonbury and then someone said actually they thought they could do an operation that would give him a lot more time. He cancelled Glastonbury, had the operation and a year later was back at Glastonbury I thought effectively cured. In some ways he was very, very lucky that false diagnosis allowed him to see how loved and appreciated he was and he certainly made the most of his extra time. 

[Punksnotdead]

Just blasting out 'Down by the Jetty' now - what an album!

[Beerqueen]

14 hours ago, gigpusher said:

He had cancer it was just misdiagnosed as being terminal at the time. He started doing a load of goodbye shows was due to play Glastonbury and then someone said actually they thought they could do an operation that would give him a lot more time. He cancelled Glastonbury, had the operation and a year later was back at Glastonbury I thought effectively cured. In some ways he was very, very lucky that false diagnosis allowed him to see how loved and appreciated he was and he certainly made the most of his extra time. 

That's a good point actually.  I always think its's a shame that love for people is only expressed when they're dead.  Things named after people etc.  Why not do it when they're alive?    So yes, that was one good thing, he got all the love while he was still alive.

[gigpusher]

7 hours ago, Beerqueen said:

That's a good point actually.  I always think its's a shame that love for people is only expressed when they're dead.  Things named after people etc.  Why not do it when they're alive?    So yes, that was one good thing, he got all the love while he was still alive.

Yep I thought that especially when George Michael died so maligned by the press whilst he was alive and then suddenly all these stories about what a nice man he was.