Comments on: Alex is OK

Alex is OK

lilboo — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:44:12 -0800

Unconfirmed good news: In case you were really, really, worried, like I was after reading this, it looks like Alex Chilton survived the hurricane after all...

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:50:19 -0800

Great news! (I know it's a Chris Bell song, but I was hearing "I Got Kinda Lost," in my head as I read this)

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:57:08 -0800

What's the opposite of the "."? what jmc said.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:14:31 -0800

A friend of mine said, on hearing that Chilton was missing, 'I'm sure he'll be found safe and sound... inside a 14 year old girl.' Er, sorry. Good news, indeed.

By: tomharpel

tomharpel — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:43:29 -0800

Classy jack_mo. Mike, I believe the hypen to be the period's opposite, so: -

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:44:49 -0800

Don't need to talk to my doctor / Don't need to talk to my shrink at least now i don't. a little bit of good news, indeed.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:55:53 -0800

!! That is what we can use. My second thought was of a particular snippet of Replacements lyrics, sending me directly to hell.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:10:03 -0800

o!o

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:11:59 -0800

This Alex Chilton, does he vibrate?

By: jessenoonan

jessenoonan — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:25:08 -0800

Thanks - in odd coincidence, I just saw the video for the Replacements' "Alex Chilton" a few minutes ago.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:28:17 -0800

This reminds me of a musician friend who once said of Alez Chilton: "He was standing RIGHT THERE MAN, ....I mean .... RIGHT NEXT TO ME.... I mean .... I coulda touched him .... I DIDN'T, of course .... but .... I coulda."

By: keswick

keswick — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:44:42 -0800

You know that lyric is "sing with" not "sleep with," right furiousthought?

By: Carbolic

Carbolic — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:01:14 -0800

This is kind of weird. I know Alex Chilton as a local Memphis semi-celeb. I didn't realize he had such a following. Glad to hear he's okay. Big Star was the name of a local grocery store chain. I think that's where they got the name for the band. The drummer from the Box Tops (I believe that was the first band Chilton was in) in now a sucessful Memphis resturant owner.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:04:32 -0800

I didn't realize he had such a following. Are you kidding? The guy's one of the gods of indie rock, and has been for decades.

By: jann

jann — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:07:20 -0800

hope the good news from wednesday is still true today! (sorry for being a bit underreassured...)

By: Carbolic

Carbolic — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:23:13 -0800

Next thing you'll tell me is that Elvis had a following outside Memphis. I heard AC play in local clubs (the Antenna Club with Tav Falco seems like the last time I saw him) and heard him on local radio I just didn't realize the same was going on outside our general area.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:37:48 -0800

I was thinking of the village.

By: scody

scody — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:18:53 -0800

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *grabs jon, starts dancing ecstatically to Radio City*

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:25:22 -0800

Carbolic, when I was at college in 1987, there was this freshman girl in my circle who was a running joke, largely for unattractive (um, juvenile) personality traits, but also for gushing endlessly about ALEX. CHILTON. Like she'd never heard any other musician ...

By: scody

scody — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:28:03 -0800

well, you know, children by the millions DO dream of Alex Chiton!

By: insomnia_lj

insomnia_lj — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:53:23 -0800

That's promising news, but I'm still waiting for actual confirmation, given how screwed up things have been.

By: suckerpunch

suckerpunch — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:48:50 -0800

Thank goodness. On a side note - Jim Monaghan was the owner of Molly's on the Market up until his death in December 2001. I discounted the linked report due to that factual error... but it appears that it was merely a misunderstanding (a poster on the board getting the current manager of Molly's mixed-up with the former owner). Regardless, looks like Chilton is alive. Excuse me, I'm gonna go reminisce about drinking at Monaghan's on the day of his death. (I got there very, very late, but friends told me that, earlier in the afternoon, they were serving up free shots every time the WWL news ticker announced his death. They announced his death every 8 minutes. My friends were very drunk.)

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:10:05 -0800

By: scody

scody — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:25:59 -0800

insomnia_lj (and others): The Chilton/Big Star boards have had further emails/posts this morning confirming (via conversations with relatives) that Alex was indeed rescued! He is now safe in Houston.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:43:38 -0800

ALEX? Phone home please....

By: scody

scody — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:08:56 -0800

Pitchfork has a good rundown of all the current music-related relief efforts, including concerts to raise general funds as well as efforts aimed specifically at helping displaced musicians.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:34:32 -0800

I got an e-mail from someone who's not a MeFi member and was anxious to stay anonymous. To quote:

Regarding the sighting of Alex Chilton at Molly's prior to his evacuating....Someone who says she called the bar yesterday to check on what suckerpunch said on Metafilter about an owner named Jim Monaghan having died in 2001 says that the current owner is the son of the deceased one. They have the same name.