David Thomas, the direct commander of the living wire of the experimental rocks, died. It was 71.
The band published the news of Thomas’s death On her official page on FacebookIt gave the cause of death a “long disease”.
Thomas “died in his hometown of Brighton and Hove, with his wife and his youngest wife beside him,” and continued the statement. “MC5 was playing on the radio. It will eventually be returned to his home, the farm in Pennsylvania, where he insisted that” he was thrown into the barn. “
Thomas, born in Miami, was a pivotal figure in the underground experimental rock (a regional scene that would give the dead children, Devo and nine inch of nails). Thomas came for the first time in the Group Tombs missile collection, which, although the album was not recorded, became a local influential work in a short period. He was famous for his loud voice close to Valsito and his contradictory savings for the professor on stage, and Thomas cut a distinguished character on stage as his music did at all.
David Thomas, Center, with Pere UBU at Vaartkapoen, Brussels, in 1993.
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Several rockets were separated from the members of the graves to form the Pere UBU-called the play of French writer Alfred Gary-in 1975. The band was very progressive in its era (and continues to sound today) lyric literary hints and bruises.
The 1978 group of the group, “The Modern Dance”, was a teacher of post -evil and new aspiration that reached just as the villain himself was crowned in the United States, while commercial success was absolute during its first lane from 1975 to 1982, Pere UBU was inspiring generations of rock and experimental producers, and it was reshaped over the years with a traffic line on Thomas. The collection recorded 19 studio albums, including LP, which is highly appreciated for 1978, “Dub Housing”, and “New Picnic Time” for 1979, a tired and cheating record that helps inspire business like Sonic Youth.
Thomas’s individual profession included cooperation with the singer and songwriter Richard Thompson and “Saturday Night Live” hal Willner.
The new PERE UBU may come after her death. “David Thomas and his band recorded a new album. He knew he was the last,” Berry Oppo wrote on Facebook. “We will seek to continue mixing the new album and putting it in his last music for everyone … … his autobiography has been almost completed and we will finish this for it.
“We will leave you with his own words, which summarize who was better than we can,” Follow the band’s statement. “My name is David F – Thomas … I am the main singer of the best Rock Roll band in the world.”
