RIP Keith Levene

[Grinderman]

Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash, dies at 65
Innovative post-punk musician was an original member of the Clash before founding PiL with John Lydon and Jah Wobble

Nobody made a sound akin to the siren screams of Ju-87B Stuka dive bombers with an electric guitar like Keith Levene on Annalisa.

 

[LiptonJigglers]

RIP Keith Levene
Such an inspirational and influential musician that, along with John and Jah, inspired me to play.

 

[Michedelic]

U2’s The Edge owes quite a bit of his style to Keith in particular(plus The Skids in general).

 

[Rick_Bass]

RIP ---- play on

 

[Rick_Bass]

Forming the Clash with guitarist Mick Jones and bassist Paul Simonon when he was only 18, it was Levene, alongside the band’s manager, Bernard Rhodes, who asked Joe Strummer, frontman with the 101ers at the time, to join them. Luckily for the Clash, Strummer had just seen the Sex Pistols play at the Nashville Rooms in London and had become convinced that punk was the way forward. --- From "The Guardian"

 

[P. Aaron]

I was always a fan of Second Edition. That album got heavy rotation in the rental house we lived in back in the late 70's-early 80's. I can't even remember when we got the recording. It was unlike anything else. Hardly conventional, I never really analyzed what the musicians were playing as much as it was just a soundtrack of a snapshot of my early days having moved out on my own for the 1st time.

The parties, kicking drunks outta my house, and eventually kicking out deadbeats who didn't pay their rent or utilities.

Besides what PIL evokes for me, I didn't know much about the guys on the record beside Lydon, from the Pistols days obviously.

RIP

 

[Krisfield]

RIP