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Godspeed your crazy punk genius!
I wasn't fortunate enough to know Jay personally, but I've been a fan for quite sometime. With all the cheats and tricks the music industry plays on us, Jay Reatard was exactly what we needed... a great songwriter who didn't take kindly to nonsense.
I recently saw him in Chicago. Like most punk rockers he had the "fuck you" attitude nailed down, but few had his raw emotion and songwriting prowess to back it up. His live show was a blitzkrieg of noise and energy, and I loved every minute of it.
I'm not going to spout off cliches about how only the good die young and I'm certainly not going to speculate how he died, but I will say this... They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
We miss you Jay!
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