OFFENDERSコミュのR.I.P. Mikey Offender

Offenders、MDCなどでベースを弾いていたMikey "Offender" Donaldsonが亡くなったそうです。



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Mikey "Offender" Donaldson passed away in his sleep on September 22 in
Barcelona Spain where he had recently relocated from Amsterdam. The
cause is unknown at the moment. He was 46. He is survived by his
brother Joe Donaldson, sister Marie Donaldson Ward, and sister Sumiko Hakari
, all of Killeen, Texas.

Mikey was the bass player for Austin punk band the Offenders from 1978-86. He also recorded bass tracks on MDC's groundbreaker "Millions of
Dead Cops" and DRI's "Dealing With It." Mikey also performed regularly with MDC in the early 1980s. He moved to San Francisco in 1986 and went on to play and record with Gary Floyd (Dicks) and Lynn Perko
(Imperial Teen) in Sister Double Happiness. After leaving the music scene
for ten years or so, Mikey returned to Austin and reunited with the
original Offenders line-up for a gig at Emo's in March 2002. In 2003 MDC
recruited Mikey and their original line-up, recorded a new album, and have
been touring all over the world ever since.

Mikey is universally regarded as one of the most innovative and
inimitable masters of the bass guitar. He played his Rickenbacker like it
was a out-sized rhythm guitar. Taking cues from Jack Bruce and Lemmy,
Mikey pioneered an aggressive speed-picking style and liberal employment
of bass chords that few have been able to emulate in the past 20
years. He will be sorely missed, certainly in Austin and his hometown of
Killeen, but also across the globe. A memorial celebration in Austin is
pending and the date will be announced soon.