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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Sleazy
In about 1991, my dear friend Roo the Reaperboy introduced me to Coil's music by playing the CD Horse Rotorvator repeatedly. I found a used copy on vinyl. It's a masterpiece that challenged everything I thought I understood about music and the "scene" I was desperate to be part of - a sort of pre-Grunge post-punk pseudo-rivethead kind of alt.rock. This wasn't Nine Inch Nails, this wasn't Ministry, this was something beyond angry guitars and drum machines. This was magick and Art.

Coil's singer, John Balance, died just before I moved to Japan. A tragic accident. He fell from a building.

But two days ago, the other half of Coil joined him in death. Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson died in his sleep on 11/24/2010 at the age of 55.

Other people will remember him better than I can:

http://thequietus.com/articles/05354-x-tg-pay-tribute-to-peter-christopherson

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/11/26/peter-christopherson-1955%E2%80%932010/


http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/nov/25/peter-sleazy-christopherson

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/6c087f4b858a0cb6?pli=1

http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/publications/coil-1995-queer_noises.php?site=coil08


http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=45477_0_2_0_C

so sez Matt Duncan at 10:50 PM [edit]
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