Great musician from a great band.

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Wonderful Golden Brown...
RIP

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I'm just a Bad Boy Boogie

Sitting on the beaches, looking at the peaches. rip

Very sad - just posted Golden Brown in the "What are you listening to this very second" thread quite recently...




Here's another good one that some of you might know from '81 which was later used on Keith Floyd's BBC TV series, Floyd on Food.
Has a bit of a Specials vibe to it....





RIP Dave Greenfield.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

sad news, loved the stranglers. they were a great band

Only just heard about this on the BBC news.

One of my fave bands back in the 70's and 80's.

I'm
R.I.P. Dave Greenfield.

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Fantastic musician. Sad news

Excellent keyboard player with Golden Brown probably his most memorable moment. The rest of the band seemingly weren’t at all keen on releasing it as a single but he was. It became their biggest hit single.

Other memorable keyboard heavy songs were No More Heroes and Waltzinblack.

I was lucky enough to see them in 1990 in Gloucester with original vocalist Hugh Cornwell still in the band.

He had been in hospital for some time with a serious heart condition and unfortunately the dreaded COVID19 finished him off.

RIP Dave Greenfield.

I worked as a Bouncer at a club in New London Connecticut in 1981 called Ba Ba O' Riley's,and the Stranglers played one night,I got them a case of beer,the show was great,they gave me a Stranglers tee shirt,I think I still have it .Eric

R.I.P. Dave Greenfield, I always enjoyed The Stranglers live and albums, Dave Greenfield made the difference with The stranglers and other punkbands by using playing his organ.

I note a good few US posters chiming in here. I wasn’t aware that the Stranglers were known in the US as well as this side of the Atlantic.

Sad news...still have memories of the stranglers show
I attended back in '84.

RIP Dave Greenfield

Never seen The Stranglers live, but I had a strange encounter with Dave Greenfield in person. It was early July, 1994. I was visiting London, and turn of the events led me to attend a publisher’s party held at a pub, somewhere in Goodge Street if I remember correctly. That was an afternoon party for launching a new science fiction book (of which title and author’s name I don’t remember now), and there were a number of writers, editors and agents related to the genre among the guests. There, wineglass in my hand, I started to talk to this guy who turned out to be the keyboard player of The Stranglers — he was Dave, obviously. Seemingly he was a science fiction fan and knew some people in the field. We talked about music a little bit — I remember talking about The Smiths and Morrissey with him, and we agreed that Morrissey was a poet, not a musician.

That was it. Now I feel I should have caught the group’s onstage performance while he was around. R.I.P. Dave Greenfield.

I was always a sucker for "Down in the Sewer" and "No More Heroes" as well as later work. Almost saw them when we visited London on our honeymoon in 1981.

THE AGE ---- 22 May 2020



ROCKMAN

J.J. Burnel sort of bashing the Stones yesterday and nowadays (French and English)

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