Here's who ed was talking about before light years friday night... RIP Skully
http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/on-the-beat-blog/article71057602.html
The performers onstage get all the glory, but the show wouldn’t go on without the efforts of throngs of support people. For the past quarter-century, one of the best in the business was Raleigh resident Tim Quinlan - better-known as Skully - who died of a heart attack on Friday.
Skully left behind a wife and two young children. He would have turned 52 years old on April 20, the day his former employer Pearl Jam is scheduled to play Raleigh’s PNC Arena.
“Yeah, that was his birthday,” said Quinlan’s friend and onetime fellow roadie Jimmy Shoaf. “I’d just called him last week, we were gonna meet that day for lunch and go hang out with the crew. It’s a complete shock.”
Skully was the first roadie Pearl Jam ever hired and worked as a drum and guitar tech during the Seattle grunge band’s initial breakout period, when they went from nightclubs to stadiums almost overnight. He went on to work for other bands including Hootie & the Blowfish. In recent years, he worked for Live Nation at shows throughout the Carolinas.
Friday, Quinlan was at Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheater when he began suffering chest pains and called 911. But it was too late.
That night, Pearl Jam was in Florida playing the opening date of their North American tour. The band paid onstage tribute to Skully during one of the encores, with frontman Eddie Vedder talking about Skully’s efforts on the band’s behalf during “the first half, the tougher half.”
That served as an introduction to the elegiac “Light Years”:
I undeciphered tricks at the bar
But now you’re gone, I haven’t figured out why
I’ve come up with riddles and jokes about war
I’ve figured out numbers and what they’re for
I’ve understood feelings and i’ve understood words
But how could you be taken away?...
Watch that here; the tribute part is the first three minutes or so. And below is a piece I wrote about Skully and Shoaf at the height of Pearl Jam mania in 1993.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/on-the-beat-blog/article71057602.html#storylink=cpy
The performers onstage get all the glory, but the show wouldn’t go on without the efforts of throngs of support people. For the past quarter-century, one of the best in the business was Raleigh resident Tim Quinlan - better-known as Skully - who died of a heart attack on Friday.
Skully left behind a wife and two young children. He would have turned 52 years old on April 20, the day his former employer Pearl Jam is scheduled to play Raleigh’s PNC Arena.
“Yeah, that was his birthday,” said Quinlan’s friend and onetime fellow roadie Jimmy Shoaf. “I’d just called him last week, we were gonna meet that day for lunch and go hang out with the crew. It’s a complete shock.”
Skully was the first roadie Pearl Jam ever hired and worked as a drum and guitar tech during the Seattle grunge band’s initial breakout period, when they went from nightclubs to stadiums almost overnight. He went on to work for other bands including Hootie & the Blowfish. In recent years, he worked for Live Nation at shows throughout the Carolinas.
Friday, Quinlan was at Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheater when he began suffering chest pains and called 911. But it was too late.
That night, Pearl Jam was in Florida playing the opening date of their North American tour. The band paid onstage tribute to Skully during one of the encores, with frontman Eddie Vedder talking about Skully’s efforts on the band’s behalf during “the first half, the tougher half.”
That served as an introduction to the elegiac “Light Years”:
I undeciphered tricks at the bar
But now you’re gone, I haven’t figured out why
I’ve come up with riddles and jokes about war
I’ve figured out numbers and what they’re for
I’ve understood feelings and i’ve understood words
But how could you be taken away?...
Watch that here; the tribute part is the first three minutes or so. And below is a piece I wrote about Skully and Shoaf at the height of Pearl Jam mania in 1993.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/on-the-beat-blog/article71057602.html#storylink=cpy
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Maybe sticky this thread Mods in honor of a lost friend to many?
“I give Eddie five years, tops, and then he’ll quit. Everything goes on him. He’s the focal point of all the attention, and it’s just too much.”
The crew used to cal Eddie "Satan Pulag" behind his back!
RIP Skully, you got to see it all!
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/on-the-beat-blog/article71057602.html#storylink=cpy
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the City of Raleigh has shown Skully the great respect of offering the venue for this event.
a level of respect shown to very few...
Celebration of Life
Sunday, April 17, 2016
3:00 p.m.
Red Hat Amphitheater
500 S McDowell St
Raleigh, North Carolina 27601
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The South is Much Obliged
whether you knew him as Tim, Skully or 'The Hook', tomorrow should be a day to celebrate his life and i know that all in attendance will do so accordingly.
RIP.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/44h4oa5rw86elrp/Pearl Jam - 1992.04.20 Skully Birthday.wav?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2zvrc5eui9c2ti7/Pearl Jam - 1995.03.16 Hurry Up Skully.flac?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0a04xn2reixsfg/Pearl Jam - 1991.11.21 Skully Gettin Paid Double.wav?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rdb0hc5nkf9zdg/Pearl Jam - 1992.03.08 Cologne, Germany - Evenflow.mpg?dl=0
ebay isn't evil people are
The South is Much Obliged