The Bad Seeds’ stoisk mesterlige pianist og orgelspiller Conway Savage er i går aftes gået bort efter en tid med hård sygdom. Australske Savage blev Bad Seeds-medlem efter The Good Son (1990). Musikalsk vil hans ubesværede tone og klassisk melodiske tilgang være stærkt savnet i Nick Cave’s band. Her er de alle sammen – også udbryderen Blixa – i 1994 i franske Lyon.
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Our beloved Conway passed away on Sunday evening. A member of Bad Seeds for nearly thirty years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike. Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine – he was all of these things and quite literally “had the gift of a golden voice,” high and sweet and drenched in soul. On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang Streets of Laredo to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house. Love, Nick and the Bad Seeds.
