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Ben McMillan, RIP
Jan. 29th, 2008 06:14 pmThe singer from Gruntruck & Skin Yard died from complications from diabetes at age 46 (!)
My first real band (Six Day Affair) had a show at the Rendezvous some time in 1995? 1996? In any event, they didn't have their own PA there in those days. We were freaking out about what to do, when we ran into the Gruntruck guys in the alley behind the bar. We chatted them up, and they ended up lending us the PA out of their practice space next door. It was a super rad thing for them to have done (even though our show still sucked, and we had to hump the PA down and up four three flights of rickety stairs).
Pre-Six Day, there was this shitty band I was in for a few weeks in high school, where the only songs we knew were Gruntruck's "Tribe" and some Nirvana song.
McMillan sang in Skin Yard with Jack Endino, who my current bands have recorded with several times. I have to imagine that this is going to be hard on him.
My first real band (Six Day Affair) had a show at the Rendezvous some time in 1995? 1996? In any event, they didn't have their own PA there in those days. We were freaking out about what to do, when we ran into the Gruntruck guys in the alley behind the bar. We chatted them up, and they ended up lending us the PA out of their practice space next door. It was a super rad thing for them to have done (even though our show still sucked, and we had to hump the PA down and up four three flights of rickety stairs).
Pre-Six Day, there was this shitty band I was in for a few weeks in high school, where the only songs we knew were Gruntruck's "Tribe" and some Nirvana song.
McMillan sang in Skin Yard with Jack Endino, who my current bands have recorded with several times. I have to imagine that this is going to be hard on him.
