Robert Quine “is dead of a heroin overdose at 61”:http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/08/music.quine.reut/.
I can’t say I have any significant knowledge of his guitar playing–Richard Hell and the Voidoids is on my perpetual list of “Probably ought to look into that”, and post-VU Lou Reed has never done much for me, and I haven’t gotten around to buying Tom Waits’ ??Raindogs??.
In fact, the only thing of Richard Quine’s I’m familiar with is his guitar playing on Matthew Sweet’s ??Girlfriend??. Even so, that’s enough. The opening of that song is something that makes me glad to be alive.
