It has made me wonder about things.
You, like myself, probably remember him as a musician and a character ...
... those people currently popular don't seem to have musicians behind them.
And I don't see many characters either, all just much of a muchness.
I've just had a look at the current top 20 singles chart, and what a bloody depressing sight it is. Full of dull, soulless, instantly forgettable ****e, each one indistinguishable from the next, by mostly talentless people who will be forgotten about this time next year.
Nowadays, the real musicians are surplus to requirements really.....not part of a "band" as such, no input into the music, just there to back a singer, and I use the word singer very loosely.
I don't want to hear about some dreary fat lasses latest break up, or some minor chord, breathy, cover version.
Musicians, like Wilko, helped define an era, an era where the music was king. It was all about the band, the music. This is why, to me, with the passing of these musicians...Garry Roberts from The Boomtown Rats a couple of weeks ago also springs to mind....a bit of the real, creative side of music died along with it.
Sadly, I can't see it returning any time soon.
