D. Boon - Classic or Dud?

Dying young, with the flu in the back of a van, however, is very much a dud.

I cannot wait to vote Double Nickels On The Dime number one on the upcoming eighties albums poll. Nothing else can come close.

25 years ago today. RIP crazy man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Boon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRkfftZ2Vo

d: i wish you got to be as old as i feel thinking about how young you were

FUCKING CLASSIC...untouchable!!!!!!
― , Thursday, August 1, 2002 8:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

This one and "Al Green, C or D?" are the most ridiculous thread titles on ILM.

like i said in 2002. CLASSIC

inspiration!

our band could be your life
real names'd be proof
me and mike watt played for years
punk rock changed our lives

we learned punk rock in hollywood
drove up from pedro
we were fucking corndogs
we'd go drink and pogo

mr. narrator
this is bob dylan to me
my story could be his songs
i'm his soldier child

our band is scientist rock
but i was e. bloom and richard hell,
joe strummer, and john doe
me and mike watt, playing guitar

25 years? That made me pause.

I think my disbelief at hearing he was dead (2 months after seeing the Minutemen play for the only time) runs second only to the Lennon killing

otm, Minutemen were gods at the time so D's death was a personal JFK-moment for me. I had missed them on that tour because I couldn't scrounge a ride for the show and, of course, assumed it was so big deal since they were constantly spieling.

War is real
Death is made with steel
I don't want to see it
I can't believe in it

happened before I was even born but it still hurts every time I think about it. especially after watching the Minutemen doc — they may have been fucking corndogs but they were the greatest fucking corndogs ever to walk the earth

also semi-OT but west-coast ilxors, I hope y'all are planning on seeing Jandek w/Mike Watt in Irvine next month

first google result for "start bumming at parties": MINUTEMEN GRUDGE MATCH : my first bells vs. double nickels on the dime

been meaning to watch that minutemen doc w/ somebody who is not a minutemen fan

for some reason I think it would be compelling even to ppl who aren't into their music but maybe I'm just blinded by my sheer unadulterated love of d boon et al

feel sad ill never listen to this dude again, if i do i have to hear owl city every day for the rest of my life

commitment to an ideal is a bitch

commitment to a bitch is an ideal

a commitment is to an ideal bitch

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9ihfMtkt1qzezj5o1_400.jpg

miss u big boy

dude meant so so much to me in high school

we jam econo is on youtube.

miss u big boy

― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, October 22, 2012 3:25 PM

Of all the untimely deaths in pop music, his was the one I took hardest.

dude meant so so much to me in high school

― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, October 22, 2012 4:26 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope he never stopped!

D Boon's guitar tone = definitely classic.

Of all the untimely deaths in pop music, his was the one I took hardest.
Yup, that was a tough one. I had just seen the Minutemen play a week or two before the crash.

Of all the untimely deaths in pop music, his was the one I took hardest.

― WilliamC, Monday, October 22, 2012 5:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. I had passed up a chance to see them at 7th St Entry shortly beforehand.

Telecaster = Boon in my mind forever.

This one and "Al Green, C or D?" are the most ridiculous thread titles on ILM.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, December 23, 2010 7:48 AM (1 year ago)