Gordon Polatnick's
Fuller Up
THE DEAD MUSICIAN DIRECTORY
"A Site About Dead
Musicians...and how they got that way" NAMED FOR THE GASOLINE SWALLOWING EVENT THAT
TOOK THE LIFE OF YOUNG ROCKER,
BOBBY FULLER
THIS SITE IS THE
SOLE OBSESSION OF
GORDON POLATNICK, WHO IS PEACEFUL AND KIND WHEN VIEWED FROM ALL OTHER
ANGLES. HE HOPES TO COMPILE A RELIABLE WAREHOUSE OF INFORMATION
ABOUT MUSICIANS WHO HAVE PASSED.
TOWARD THAT END, IF YOU HAVE INSIDE OR CONFLICTING INFORMATION WHICH WILL
HELP SET MUSIC HISTORY STRAIGHT, PLEASE
GET IN TOUCH.
IF YOU ARE A REGULAR FAN OF THE SITE AND WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO ITS UPKEEP,
PLEASE USE OUR LINKS WHEN SHOPPING FOR ANYTHING AT AMAZON.COM.
YOU CAN GET A HEAD START BY CHECKING OUT THE TOPICAL BOOKS ON THE
REQUIRED
READING LIST.
YOU
MAY EVENTUALLY NOTICE THAT THIS SITE IS REALLY JUST A BILLBOARD FOR
GORDON'S TOUR GUIDING BUSINESS. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN NEW YORK
CITY AND WANT TO SEE THE SITES...GORDON SPECIALIZES IN TOURS TO HARLEM'S
HIDDEN JAZZ HAUNTS; NY'S MUSICIAN GRAVESITES; GREENWICH VILLAGE'S
HOTSPOTS; SOHO'S TRENDIEST ZONE ; ETHNIC DELIGHTS, THE CHELSEA GALLERIES -
- WHATEVER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR,
CHECK IT OUT.
These folks have
helped me with news flashes, additions and corrections to the site Fuller Up Attendants
at large:
Don Wolff--Tom
Diamant--Bill Janowski Jr.--Bob from Huntsville--
Steve Edelen--Ron Brown--Marcus A. Woelfle--Lloyd Dewar
Kenny Mathieson--Len Nowakowski--Tony--Lou
Smith
R. Stotyn--Kim Erskine--CA Reisert--Thomas
Coleman
erik van den berg--Paul Wadey--Peter Tutak--Alberto Naranjo--
Jan Konings--Marc Blaisdell--Carl Crabtree--Tom Carrol
Tom Diehl--Lars Westin--Julian Watts--Kerry
Abel
Mrdubway--Linda Conrad--BobbyShred--Peter Lavinger
Sean Griffin--T.Thornton--Doc-rock--El
Rapido
Vernon R. Priddy--Eric Lenaburg--Drew Wheeler--
Derek Maness--Todd Venezia--Steve Po--Peter
Fraissinet
Tim Serpas--Eric van Domburg--Scipio--Bugupbuttt--
Mike Paulsen--Bill Schmi--Andy Schwartz--
Niels Lyngberg--Allison McLennan--The Jester--
Jim Zinn--ShanMonster--Ross Walsh--Bob Kline.
Others are asked to kindly submit notices of musicians who pass away
in the coming days -- or have been neglected on the pages and categories already
established.
If you can, send me:
1-Name of Musician
2-Date and cause of death
3-Obituary and Biography
4-Photo and links to tributes
5-Your name (if you want credit)
6-A link to the obituary
Thanks for your help~[email protected]
Two 30's Singers: Recently discovered stories of the
accidental? shooting of crooner,
Russ
Columbo by his pal; and the blitz bombing demise of International singing
sensation Al Bowlly
Keith Relf, famously of
the Yardbirds, and notoriously reported as having been
electrocuted
in his bath while playing guitar, possibly was
electrocuted
in his living room playing guitar instead.
Jim
Morrison was hard to place in a Cause of Death Category: Poor Maintenance seemed appropriate,
but visitors and
Marianne
Faithfull have convinced me that the
Heroin
page was more accurate.
(In Marianne's
autobiography, Faithfull, She recounts her relationships with such rock legends as The Stones,
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, and her bizarre connection to Jim Morrison's
death. )
