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PRIMAL SCREAM - HOLLAND 2019 [MARTIN DUFFY R.I.P. 1967 - 2022]

December 22, 2022 – 11:25 am

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MARTIN DUFFY R.I.P. 1967 - 2022

Martin Duffy, who played keyboards for Primal Scream and Felt, has died on December 18, aged 55. The cause of death was a brain injury due to a fall at his home in Brighton, his bandmate Bobby Gillespie said. “I’ve known Martin since he was a teenager in Felt,” Gillespie wrote on Instagram. “He played keyboards on every album of ours from the first to the last. Finally joining the band in 1991. Martin was a very special character. He had a love and understanding of music on a deep spiritual level. Music meant everything to him.”

The second side of the 1988 Felt album, The Pictorial Jackson Review, features two Duffy instrumentals. The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess cited the album as proof that Duffy was “actually the only musical genius I have ever met… me and [My Bloody Valentine’s] Kevin Shields sat up all night once with open mouths praising his natural ability,” he told the Quietus. Duffy had played on Primal Scream’s first two albums, 1987’s Sonic Flower Groove and 1989’s Primal Scream; he joined the band full-time at the end of that year.

Gillespie called him “the most musically talented of all of us… He could play piano to the level where he was feted not just by his peers in British music, but old school master American musicians such as James Luther Dickinson, Roger Hawkins and David Hood and producer Tom Dowd.

Mojo’s Tim Tooher described Duffy as “probably the purest musician in the band, bringing in echoes of Thelonious Monk, Johnnie Johnson, Jerry Lee and Cecil Taylor. His voice sounds like his throat was pickled in whisky before he was even born. Martin brings the blues to Primal Scream.” - theguardian.com

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PRIMAL SCREAM
The Netherlands 2019 [no label, 1CD]
Best Kept Secret Festival. Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands; May 31, 2019. Very good FM broadcast.

Thanks to BleedingMe for sharing the show at Dime.

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Celebrating the release of their newest compilation Maximum Rock N’ Roll: The Singles, the indefatigable Scottish neo-psych groovers brought their greatest hits to life on stage at the Best Kept Secret Festival 2019, led stylishly by frontman Bobby Gillespie in his signature hot pink suit…

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Double J Live At The Wireless [NPO 3FM Live Recording]

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Track 01. Movin’ On Up 4:57
Track 02. Jailbird 3:47
Track 03. Can’t Go Back 4:12
Track 04. Miss Lucifer 2:41
Track 05. Kowalski 3:27
Track 06. Swastika Eyes 5:51
Track 07. Loaded 8:27
Track 08. Country Girl 6:17
Track 09. Rocks 5:09
45 mins

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