Wreaking Crew. Unfortunately he lived up to his name. RIP.
“The troubled session ace’s already-impressive career was cut short in 1984, when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for brutally murdering his mother in an attack with a hammer during a schizophrenic episode, before stabbing her to death with a butchers’ knife in 1983.”
He killed her once with a hammer and once with a knife? I’m confused.
Read about his tragic case a few years ago when Eric Clapton was discussing it.
Voices told him the only wat to stop his inner torment was to kill her.
This long story had details and photos.
A tragedy of mental illness.
https://musicoholics.com/backstage-stories/jim-gordon-the-drummer-whose-voices-fractured-his-psyche/
In this country, the bestselling version of Apache was by Jörgen Ingmann, which rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot Hundred in the early months of 1961.
So first he murdered his mother with a hammer?
And then he stabbed her to death with a butcher knife?
Did the sloppy DA only charge him with one of the crimes. Plus, sentence of 16 years? In what world is that justice?
Wonky article:
If Gordon was sentenced to 16 years prison in 1984, why was he still in prison until his death?
There was a thread the other day on Layla by Derek and the Dominoes.
Jim Gordon was the pianist who brought that song to a fantastic flourishing finish. I didn't know he was a homicidal mother murderer.
RIP Jimmy, hopefully you have finally found peace and now living with the Lord.
He was the drummer when Classical Gas was recorded. The reason he was in prison so long was that he refused to apply for parole. You can’t get paroled if you don’t apply.