Sunday, May 24, 2009

Jay Bennett, R.I.P.

Looks like Drischord was more right than we knew....

Read about it here.

The moment in this video where Jay and Jeff headbang in unison always gets me...


There are lots of favorite Jay moments in Wilco songs, for me a personal favorite was always Someday Some Morning Sometime from Mermaid Ave. 2....Such a gorgeous song and I've always thought it represented the moment where the collaboration between Jeff and Jay was really beginning to blossom...

3 comments:

drischord said...

Just got home from watching the new Wilco movie with Ryan and Matt. I had been thinking about Jay during the movie... especially when Jeff more or less plays Jay's solo on "Monday."

And then to get home and see this... wow. What a shame.

Now I'm depressed.

drischord said...

But that is a nice video, Tex. Thanks for sharing.

Eric said...

When I saw this news I was shocked for a moment but it also seemed weirdly inevitable - what an oddly tragic figure.