I was Jay's best friend in high school. We learned to play guitar together. He quickly became more adept than me at the guitar. Still, we were going to be the next Lennon and McCartney. We both went to the University of Illinois together and lived together for 4 years. We both shared bands together. The documentaries never remember the rebel ducks, our band that played with no success in the bars of champaign at the time in places like Mabel's and O'Malley's. Jay and I had a love hate relationship. He obviously made it, I didn't. He was extremely talented and very motivated. I was not talented and very unmotivated. The thing that always held Jay back was his voice. Too deep and made even deeper by his smoking habit. I live vicariously through his memory and his fame. With Wilco I feel that he killed the Golden goose and he should have recognized his place beside Jeff.

@senatorjimdracula1603

2 жыл бұрын

@John Smith I loved his voice as well. One does not need to be technically perfect to get emotion across. A lot of my favorite artists aren't considered 'great' singers- Dylan, Neil, J Mascis, hell, even Jagger. I prefer 'real' over so-called 'great' vocalists in a lot of cases.

@johnpaulcyr175

2 жыл бұрын

@@senatorjimdracula1603 "All my favorite singers couldn't sing" ~David Berman, RIP

@richardraimond6314

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I guess this is as good a place as any to kick off a reunion of sorts. I mean besides us, a couple of Johns, and Count Dracula, nobody will be reading this, right? So let me start by saying Hello Craig! it's good to know you're out there. I enjoyed reading your personal reminiscences (^). You and I each spent countless hours with Jay over a period of several years, and our stories could fill many a notebook. We knew his mind; his aspirations; his musical influences well. I haven't seen the new "film" yet, and I expect to be mostly disappointed by it, which also sums up my feelings about Jay's difficulty nurturing relationships, and also his body of work as a solo artist and collaborator. As far as the lack of screen time devoted to little-known "Jay bands" such as The Sound Committee, The Robesmen, Rebel Ducks, Wet Pavement or Aristocratic Side Arm ... it's up to us now, and I just "don't care that much", do you?

@josephmckenna4289

Жыл бұрын

Hi! I think Jay stopped up in Minneapolis MN a few times? I later thought he was in the Black Crows? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aopnmrOempCZhNo.html I only recently realized it was Jay Bennet! Anyway I think Jay came into Viking Music in Osseo MN in 1987-88? and he played Tumbling Dice on a guitar and amp- it was awesome...12/30/22

@cbartal1

Жыл бұрын

@@richardraimond6314 I just saw this post Rich. You will always be Rich Godzicki to me. I left IT 10 years ago. I now spend my days as an Uber and Lyft driver. I make it a point to drive by my old house and your old place and Paul and Carl's place whenever I can. Those were the days. I also remember all the small moments in the back of Carls Ford pinto. And the time I got mad at you for grabbing The who tickets and hiding them in your pocket on the bean bag in my room! My brother has pictures of you and me and Jay in our room sophomore year when you lived with Jay and I lived with Paul, but I spent all my time in Leah's single at Barton. And then there were our days in the apostles, the stupidest name a band could ever have. I think Steve came up with the name but I adopted it. We could have been great as a grunge or rock band, but I wanted to be Bono. I was so f****** gay. But anyway, I love you rich and Hope we can see each other soon. Call me at 312-203-8951 in the next couple of weeks. I would love to get together.

Summerteeth and Foxtrot are masterpieces. Jay was brilliant!

Wilco did a full electric gig at the virgin megastore in London, around 1999. After, they did a signing session for summerteeth..I got my vinyl cover signed by all the band. Its on my wall.

I was a freshman at U of I and Jay Bennett and Craig Bartal lived on my dorm floor. It was pretty awesome to have two talented musicians and very nice guys on our floor.

From the first time i listened to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, i knew he was a genius.

@estudiosfolkloreiberoamericano

2 жыл бұрын

then i listened all of their Wilco's performances and solo albums, and daaaamn, this guy deserved more credits

just placed this on hold at my local Library, can't wait to watch it. You do some amazing work Sir, Thank You !

Can't wait for this, and so glad that someone made it.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman would have been so well suited, both in look and acting style, to play Jay in a film.

@btm380

7 ай бұрын

Phillip S.H. was another great talent gone too soon.

This documentary is so much better than what Wilco are currently doing. Thank you for reminding everyone of the good times Gorman. (And for finally doing justice to a misunderstood genius!)

What a ridiculous thing to say that he didn't over do it. He did over do it & the sad part is he didn't need to over do it, he was just as gifted without over doing it.

@tobyschadt5246

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, there is not a ton of context to that quote.

@jesseemullen

2 жыл бұрын

If you're referring to how he died, the film clears it up at the end. The quote had nothing to do with that btw. It was referring to how he was engineering, producing, and (for a time) mixing YHF.

@BirdsOfGlass

2 жыл бұрын

@@tobyschadt5246 I guess that's why I just attributed it to his entire life or his time in Wilco. Fair enough point from you though.