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Jet Black, Drummer for The Stranglers dies aged 84. RIP
Jet Black: 'Inspirational' drummer for the Stranglers dies aged 84
The musician, who co-founded the band, played on tracks like Golden Brown, No More Heroes and Peaches.
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Sad news thatJet Black, Drummer for The Stranglers dies aged 84. RIP
Jet Black: 'Inspirational' drummer for the Stranglers dies aged 84
The musician, who co-founded the band, played on tracks like Golden Brown, No More Heroes and Peaches.www.bbc.co.uk
Love the Stranglers me.
RIP Jet
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Incredible to think he was nearing 40 when the Stranglers were getting national recognition. Played in a Jazz band in his youth. A very articulate man. He wrote a account, Much ado about nothing, about the bands annus horribilis in 1980..Hugh Cornwell getting busted & doing time, then the whole band getting arrested & jailed in Nice.Jet Black, Drummer for The Stranglers dies aged 84. RIP
Jet Black: 'Inspirational' drummer for the Stranglers dies aged 84
The musician, who co-founded the band, played on tracks like Golden Brown, No More Heroes and Peaches.www.bbc.co.uk
Always good for a few words of humour & wisdom before he got behind the skins.
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A piece that John Robb wrote about Jet on his 80th Birthday.
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Jet Black of the Stranglers 80th birthday - Louder Than War
Jet Black - the most uncompromising of ages in the most uncompromising of bands and he always delivered the goods with brilliant off kilter,
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Have to admit I never knew he was that old, When you saw them Jet always looked older than others in bands at that time, I just thought he was one of them blokes who looked rugged and aged before his time, It's sad he's passed and another one from my youth going making me realise I'm getting on too.
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He had a ice cream van that took the band to their early gigs, as well as having a Off License in Guildford in those days
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Jet with a minging hangover apparently for the album cover shoot of Black & White in early 1978.
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I recall seeing the Stranglers at Taunton Odeon on I think their Raven tour back in the day.Jet Black, Drummer for The Stranglers dies aged 84. RIP
Jet Black: 'Inspirational' drummer for the Stranglers dies aged 84
The musician, who co-founded the band, played on tracks like Golden Brown, No More Heroes and Peaches.www.bbc.co.uk
I also saw them at the Eden Project in 2015 supporting Motörhead, the latter being the main reason for us going.
Unfortunately, by the end of that year Lemmy was dead
Interestingly, Lemmy was born in Burslem, but I doubt that he was a Port Vale supporter some how.
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Yep.. I remember seeing them at that venue in 1980. There were a few good gigs at the Odeon.
The last time I saw the Stranglers with Jet drumming was at the Riverside Centre in Exeter around 2008. They were the headline at the end of the Exeter Festival Week.