Mimi Ramone
Can you delve so low?
Andy Rourke would have turned 60 today .
I'm still sad, that he past away last year way too early. He is my favourite member of the Smiths, because I think he is the most sincere and grounded one. He really seemed like a sweet no nonsense guy and I absolutely love his stoic face just playing the bass like a king on stage with the Smiths and the occasional smirk, when Moz was doing something funny. I really would have looked forward to a kind of autobiography, because I have a hunch it would be the most truthful account of the Smiths' time without much egotistical veil. But he explicitly did not want to do that, because he said in some interview, that everything has been said already. He is also the only one on good terms with all the members of the Smiths (not so close with Moz, I know, but even he seemed to like him albeit the court case), which says a lot about him.
Being the quieter one of them, there isn't so much content around, but I would like to have a place to collect tidbits about him, hence I created this thread. Please feel free to share Andy-related stuff here
I'm still sad, that he past away last year way too early. He is my favourite member of the Smiths, because I think he is the most sincere and grounded one. He really seemed like a sweet no nonsense guy and I absolutely love his stoic face just playing the bass like a king on stage with the Smiths and the occasional smirk, when Moz was doing something funny. I really would have looked forward to a kind of autobiography, because I have a hunch it would be the most truthful account of the Smiths' time without much egotistical veil. But he explicitly did not want to do that, because he said in some interview, that everything has been said already. He is also the only one on good terms with all the members of the Smiths (not so close with Moz, I know, but even he seemed to like him albeit the court case), which says a lot about him.
Being the quieter one of them, there isn't so much content around, but I would like to have a place to collect tidbits about him, hence I created this thread. Please feel free to share Andy-related stuff here