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Elliot Smith suicide

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from Alex NiedtJul 18 2004 - 21:45

I just read that the album he was recording before his death is going to be released soon.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from stemsJan 16 2004 - 15:40

Yeah, Richie Lee. Spiritualized memorialize him on their new rec. I saw Acetone open for them once. Quite the hell of a show.

Wasn't terribly familiar with Elliot's work, but I liked what I heard. Such a cruel pity.

I'd like to know more about the investigation into his death, but I tire of conspiracy theories ala Kurt C.

Others here have name checked some greats felled by their own hands.

A toast to them. A toast to absent friends. Elliot, Richie, Kurt, Ian, et al. These guys made music that really spoke to a lot of people. They are, indeed, like friends.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from BigbobJan 14 2004 - 18:25

The coroner refused to put "suicide" down on hs report. The police are reopening the case, from what I've read.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from JeanJan 14 2004 - 16:51

I read the other day that his death isn't being confirmed as a suicide anymore, and that it's still under investigation.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from JR OlssonJan 13 2004 - 23:53

there are a whole lot of elliott smith live songs at http://lido.binaryops.com/

i wouldn't say fantastic soundquality though.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from susan331Oct 27 2003 - 11:42

Heh. People still do that at the Abbey Road studios, too. Someone once told me they had to paint the exterior walls every fortnight because people kept covering them with messages for the Beatles.

The radio program New Ground aired a tribute to Elliott over the weekend; it's archived online if you would like to hear it:
http://www.kcrw.org/show/gz

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from BigBobOct 24 2003 - 23:10

My girlfriend grew up in Macclesfield, round the corner from the house that Ian Curtis hung himself in. She was too young to know about it at the time, but, as she grew up she grew to loathe the tourists that kept hanging around the house. They hung around this little terraced place with completely new families in, and kept scrawling graffitti on the wall. Ian Curtis killed himself in 1980, and this was still going on into the '90's. Don't let that sorta shit be Elliott Smith's eulogy.
To life...

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from micahOct 24 2003 - 20:31

suicide

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from RipOct 24 2003 - 19:20

Not to be morbid but.......how did Richie Lee die? Drug overdose?

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from AlexOct 24 2003 - 14:39

Richie Lee died on July 23, 2001.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from canuckOct 24 2003 - 12:52

Richie Lee?

bummer. i had'nt heard about him.

so much for acetone.

what a shame...

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from eraserheadOct 24 2003 - 10:19

Joachim, you should add Richie Lee from Acetone to your collection. It's sad to see something coming from the lyrics. Although most poets/songwriters have to dig deep for their work.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from AlexOct 24 2003 - 10:19

Please don't leave out Ian Curtis.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from joachimOct 24 2003 - 09:51

jeff buckley, kurt cobain, layne staley, elliot smith. my record collection is turning into a requiem.

nick drake and tim buckley as many others has always been in the 'dead hero' section. i really hate to reconstruct and seek for hidden meanings in the lyrics once again, but this behavioural pattern seems to carry on.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from Donnie DarkoOct 24 2003 - 09:10

Elliot was one of the people that made my life a better place to be. I'm really gutted by this and the thought of what an awful dark place he must have been in to do it. At least he made his little mark on this world.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from susan331Oct 22 2003 - 19:53

Elliott Smith: bad.

This: worse
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,12758,00.html

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from Big BobOct 22 2003 - 16:51

I'm so tired of watching the good ones go.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from Big BobOct 22 2003 - 16:49

I still can't believe he stuck himself in the heart.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from JeanOct 22 2003 - 13:15

Here's a nice quote from Rolling Stone: ...While Smith's tragic end will no doubt seal his legacy as a Drake-like poet of gloom, he thought such focus wasn't fair to the whole scope of his work. "The 'depressing' thing is a superficial tag," he said. "Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. BUT THERE IS SOME SADNESS IN IT -- THERE HAS TO BE, SO THAT THE HAPPINESS IN IT WILL MATTER."

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from AlexOct 22 2003 - 13:05

That's a wonderful article. Thanks Susan.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from susan331Oct 22 2003 - 12:50

They're playing him on the radio right now. I'm too shattered.

I think this best summarizes what happened:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-10/22.shtml

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from joachimOct 22 2003 - 11:44

steven paul (elliott) smith. august 6, 1969 – october 21, 2003.

at the time of his death, elliott was recording his sixth album, “from a basement on the hill”.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from Big BobOct 22 2003 - 11:34

Jesus. I just read about it on a music news page. Died from a self inflicted knife wound to the chest. Sad. Another good guy gone.

RE: Elliot Smith suicide | from cOct 22 2003 - 11:29

I'm not an Elliot Smith fan, but I had no idea. When did this happen???

Elliot Smith suicide | from AlexOct 22 2003 - 10:45

Has anyone else heard about this? Apparently he stabbed himself in the chest. Are there any other fans in mourning on this message board?