Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Music / Post No Bills Sun City Girls drummer Charles Gocher dead at 54
Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Details are scant at this point, but Charles Gocher, the longtime drummer and would-be comedian of the Sun City Girls—one of America’s most unapologetically adventurous and restless rock bands—died this week at the age of 54. According to the band’s Web site, the cause of death was cancer, which he battled for the last three years. Gocher had kept his illness private. Considering how tight-knit the group was—with brothers Richard and Allen Bishop—it’s hard to imagine how it could realistically continue without his participation. Few other bands pushed the improvisational impulse in rock music as hard as the SCG, whose sound made great use of styles from folk music of the Far East. Details of a memorial are to be announced soon.
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Major bummer. I seem to remember a Sun City Girls show from the early 90s where Charles Gocher didn't play any percussion, but just spun in a circle wearing a mask.
to paraphrase an astute member of the band Climax Golden Twins: "replacing Charlie would be like trying to replace Keith Moon"... INDEED. He was way beyond one of a kind - Charlie was one of *ONE*...
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