6/23/2023 0 Comments Andy king obituary 2020![]() ![]() ![]() “I thought, Why don’t you just tour as Andy Gill, the Andy Gill Experience? You’re a wonderful player but Noel Gallagher wouldn’t have gone out as Oasis, Jimmy Page wouldn’t have gone out as Led Zeppelin, or Johnny Marr wouldn’t have gone out as the Smiths. “We had a very catastrophic falling out about it,” King says. Gill planned to tour as Gang of Four King was adamant that he not. “Obviously, it’s not unknown for singers and guitarists to sort of fall out with each other,” King says with a laugh.īut this time the split was no laughing matter. And the band stayed together, too, until 2011 when the creative differences rose again. When Gang of Four reunited with its original lineup in 2005 for Coachella, it marked the first time since 1981 the four founders had played a show in Southern California. “It was quite a revelation to do that sort of thing,” he says. (Andy) said, ‘Well, I’ll slap on feedback and Hugo and Dave will come up with a heavy beat.’ “With ‘Anthrax,’ we plotted out the song without actually playing a note. ![]() “I wanted to write songs that were more like watching a movie,” King says. Quickly, though, Gill and King headed into unfamiliar, original territory. “One of the original demos (included in the box set) is ‘Elevator,’ which is emblematic of the early stuff, and it’s verse-chorus-verse-chorus. “It’s pretty easy as a musician to learn to play 12 bars, things like that,” he says. Like most young musicians, they initially wrote songs reflective of the lyrics and music of the popular genres of the time, he says. Feelgood, the punk scenes in New York City and London, and reggae and funk music, too. When King and Gill first started writing songs together, working with an acoustic guitar and a cassette recorder, they were fans of the English band Dr. “Sadly, I think the music is really relevant,” King says. King, whose lyrics typically focused on such non-traditional rock fare as politics, economics, social ills, and war, wondered whether the music would still resonate with audiences. “I think that hunger came through, and they knew the material and they wanted it to work.” Early days “I wondered how well it would work, and actually, the audience was just really hungry for the live experience. “I was a bit anxious beforehand about how it might be,” King says. tour that brings the band to the Roxy in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 19. As the pandemic lockdowns lifted, King, Burnham, Pajo and bassist Sara Lee, a former member of the group, embarked on a U.S. ![]()
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