Silent Way From Floppy Boot Stomp/Voodoo Wagon has posted that he had heard on Sunday from the daughter of fellow music blogger Hinterwald of the Her(m)etic Garage who has passed away suddenly.
Honoring a friend...
I received an email Sunday with some very sad news...
Manon here, the daughter of Hardy (aka-hinterwald) Unfortunately I have bad news. Hardy passed away in the night from Friday to Saturday, we found him yesterday afternoon. He was lying in his bed and does not seem to have suffered much. He wished to be cremated and taken to a forest keep, there will be no classic grave or funeral service, he didn't want that.
I found your emails, so I wanted to let you know as soon as possible. I am very sorry for all of us that we lost such a great person.
We will miss his contributions and unerring sense of fun coupled with his wonderful eclectic musical taste. I called him 'Major Grubert' in correspondence (how he addressed himself upon his blog when answering folks comments and queries!) and we exchanged good natured rivalry, good humour and compared musical notes from time to time and like Silent Way, Brother Jobe and the guys at FBS/VW, I always looked forward to checking out what he had posted, not least his massive contributions of musical feasts around Christmas time when he posted great swathes of fine music for us all to enjoy.
We had similar shared interests in music and this caused me to post links to his postings for the likes of Patti Smith, XTC, Hal Wilner, Neil Young, Hot Tuna, and many more besides. Weexchanged correspondence about his posting the wonderful concert in Greece by Brian and Roger Eno which I think is still available through his blog and one of my very favourites posted by him. This version below Embryonic Journey is a Jefferson Airplane classic from Jorma Kaukonen, here with Jack Cassady and Paul Kantner (stage left) live is for 'Hinterwald'
Our thoughts go out to Manon and her family and all of Hardy's friends and colleagues in the music blog world. We have lost a brother and friend asSilent Way says
Extraordinary gift and labour of love from Major General Grubert at The Hermetic Garage these last few days with a volume per day BBC vaults speciality recordings. The Major again has done us proud and the selection of tracks and artists is quite extraordinary
following the signs for further volumes . . . The Major is up to 4 volumes and there will be six he assures me the list is too many to list here and why would I? Too much fun to be had checking it for yourselves . . . . . . .thus far I have pointed out Roddy Frame (above) and Rory Gallagher (below) not to mention Jah Wobble to Joan As Policewoman and Nic Jones or Half Man Half Biscuit all this stuff is as rare and eclectic as Rocking Horse poo. I kid you not.
He did the same last December and check out his blog for further details
John Cooper Clarke, Leonard Cohen, the wondrous voice of Christine Collister, Cowboy Junkies, Graham Coxon, two sets from Samantha Crain, Everything But The Girl, Fairport Convention
Pulp, REM. The Revillos, Ranking Roger, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Seaford Mods, Sonic Youth, Squeeze (live in Oxford), The Stranglers live in The Paris Theatre London,
