The Quine Game

I guess that most people who cared have now heard the sad news that ex-Voidoids guitarist Robert Quine has died from an apparently suicidal drugs overdose. Via TMFTML, Richard Hell reminisces about his former bandmate, revealing him to be a sad, funny, angry kind of fellow who just happened to play the guitar brilliantly -

'He was still playing guitar for hours every day, alone, up to the end. All his friends wanted to help and called him often and got him out to eat, but he couldn’t stop crying. He would tell you how he’d gotten the crying down to two hours a day from four. He was still almost always funny, though. Ivan Julian, who played with him in the Voidoids, told me about a wisecrack Quine made when they went out to eat recently. When the check came, Ivan reached for it, but Bob snatched it away, snarling, “No, I got it. It’s my way of saying good-bye.”'