Posted on 09/14/2009 2:14:38 AM PDT by real saxophonist
Jim Carroll, poet and punk rocker, dead at 60
(AP) – 4 hours ago
NEW YORK — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60.
He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times.
In the 1970s, Carroll was a fixture of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene, where he mixed with artists such as Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Larry Rivers and Robert Mapplethorpe. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about extensively.
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“Those were people who died, died....”
Next to William Burroughs, he’s probably the longest-lived longtime heroin addict I can think of.
I am old enough to remember hearing his name , but never heard any of his music . I was more into the English scene . R.I.P.
Burroughs : alkie ; smoker ; heroin addict ; gay ...lived into his 80’s . Tough mofo .
Self-indulgent, narcissistic, poseur.
Keith Richards?
How old is Keith Richards?
He lived longer than I expected. I really like his stuff: the poetry and the music. I saw him give readings a few times in the 80’s too. Interesting fellow.
“Those were people who died, died....”
THAT’S the song...I thought he was the guy who did “88 lines about 44 women”.
micro-hijack ... Burroughs also wrote the best book of the counter-culture era, “Naked Lunch”.
Jim Carroll, God rest your troubled soul.
Odumbo will declare a holiday
Dead liberal drug addict. Pity.
I saw him and band twice in New Jersey. His first album is a bona fide gem. Everyone knows his , “People Who Died” but songs like “Wicked Gravity,” “Day and Night,” “I Want the Angel” are better.
I thought he had kicked he habit, I guessed wrong.
R.I.P.
He wasn’t looking too healthy in this September 2007 photo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Carroll_by_David_Shankbone.jpg
If you use sterile technique, a 5 micron filter needle, and have some idea of the potency of the junk you can use it indefinitely with only constipation as the primary adverse consequence.
The head of neurosurgery for a leading university hospital was one for over 30 years. He had the benefit of a quality-controlled source.
That was The Nails.
The singer from that band is a frequent poster on a music forum elsewhere.
Bump...
Keith Richards also made it past 60 (but IMO he gets an asterisk because of the blood transfusions). Chet Baker was another, I think.
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