goner board seems to have crashed, here is what it said

It is with great sadness that
we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard.
Jay died in his sleep last night.
We will pass along information about funeral arrangements
when they are made public.

whoa...

What horrible, horrible news.
Such a great bastard.
I hate waking up to shit like this.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jan/13/memphis-musician-jay-reatard-found-dead-midtown-ho/

jeez...

Holy shit.

Pitchfork have just confirmed

Man that's really sad. Young and talented.

terrible news

Such sad news. So far, 2010 is sucking harder than 2009.

Oh man, that's fucked up.

R.I.P. Jay. So long, and thanks for all the tunes.

how old was he??

29

29 - wow. fuck.

holy shit. that's completely fucked. completely unexpected. thanks for two great albums, a stack of great 7''s and some of the most fun shows of the last couple of years. sad face.

That sucks pretty bad.

Fuck a duck. RIP.

shiteness. This is so sad.

Fuck. R.I.P.

sad news

Very sad news indeed.

Any idea how he died? To be fair he did have a bit of a deathwish...

ummmm from goner but there's heaps of good photographers around these parts...

If you have photos of Jay we would love to show them during the funeral.
Email them to jayreatardphotos@gmail.com 300-500k size is best.

from missinglink.net.au
Our good friend Jay Reatard died this week at age 29. Missing Link have been long fans and supporters of his music, and going thru our catalogue looking at the vast number of reatarded releases we've stocked really hit home his unique combination of a hyperactive work ethic and unique song writing talent that made the scumbag punk of Reatards so tuneful and the wasted synth punk of Lost Sounds so malevolent, not to mention the countless other projects he recorded and produced up to the punk pop brilliance of his solo material.

Missing Link pushed around the Bad Times, jumped at the opportunity to co-present his first Australian tour, sweated out the struggle to get a paltry number of 7''s from his Matador blitz, waited alongside our customers in great anticipation for his singles compilations and second LP. We were excited to hear he was going to reissue the early Reatards material on his label Shattered (which turned us onto Digital Leather and the Carbonas among other shop favourites), as well as finally compile his Angry Angles material. We got a great kick out of the Final Solutions LP with an ugly bastard rocking a shirt with the Australian flag on it, as we knew Memphis understood Australian punk like few other places in the world, and our speakers still crackle from blasting his Go Betweens or Saints covers to curious customers.

It is with great sadness that we mourn this loss. We will be playing his solo catalogue on constant rotation for the next couple of weeks, and have a counter box of his CDs going very cheap for anyone who came in too late. Jay always enjoyed his time in Melbourne, and the number of people that have come into the store to pour out a liquor for him has been heartening. To everyone who knew him, to his close friends and family, to everyone who came to see his shows and freaked out on his hard-to-locate records, to everyone who made Australia a place that he looked forward to visiting again, to everyone in Memphis especially including the Goner records folk who he probably lifted his first Ramones CDs from, to everyone across the states who had their nose or heart broken, to everyone in the world who are as shattered as we are, our thoughts are with you.

there's a really good tribute to him here

Man. Thanks, Missing Links dudes, that sums a lot up for me.

which turned us onto Digital Leather

Eric at Goner did this for me- and I'm glad.

Nice one DX.

Jay Reatard eulogy/photo feature

i've been trying to watch that waiting for something doc but its streaming like crap and too annoying to tolerate. teenage hate and not fucked enough are two of my fav records from long ago. sad news.

very sad news.

and I'm having the same problem with the video DaisyB, very frustrating. anyone know what can be done about that?

This sucks..... i wonder how the investigation is going.

funeral article inc. an eulogy from eric o.
nice read from greg o on the goner board too.

Thanx DaisyB, =|

anyone know the full line up for the tribute show on the 30th at ding dong?

i don't know anything other than UV Race, i'm dj'ing- come and hurl shit at me

picked up a copy of Terror Visions - World Of Shit today!!

goner disco, count me in

Anyone know a cause???

there's a couple of local health clinic's, i think i forwarded them on to marcus, whoops, just looked at an email, Memphis Food Bank or Church Health Center, but i'm waiting to hear back from his sister to make sure that's alright

have coroners released a cause of death?

nah, it takes over a month for that kind of stuff

Cause of death

Coke and booze contributing? What a surprise!