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Local Punk Rock Guitarist Robert Comics Quine Found Dead News Photos Most Popular Mon Jun 7, 7:47 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! Weather By Chris Morris and Jonathan Cohen Audio/Video Full Coverage LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Billboard) - Guitarist Robert Quine, one of punk rock's most daring soloists, was found dead Saturday in his New York apartment. He was 61. News Resources Providers According to close friend and maker Rick Kelly, who · AP discovered Quine's body, the musician died of a heroin overdose · Reuters Memorial Day weekend. He had been despondent over the recent · E! Online death of his wife. · LAUNCH Born in Akron, Ohio, Quine was heavily influenced by the Velvet · Variety Underground, whose music he recorded obsessively while living in San Francisco. He moved to New York in 1971 and became the News Alerts lead guitarist for bassist 's important group the · Voidoids, with whom he recorded two . His skittering, · unpredictable work with Hell defined the possibilities of punk guitar. · During the '80s, he recorded and toured frequently with Lou Reed · (news) and played on saxophonist/composer 's · best-known albums. Quine made key guest appearances on Tom · Patti Smith Waits (news)' "Rain Dogs" (1985) and Marianne Faithfull (news)'s "Strange Weather" (1987). In 1989, he began a long association · News Alerts with Matthew Sweet (news); he also worked regularly with Lloyd News via RSS Cole (news). In 2001, Universal released a three-CD box of Quine's live 1969 recordings of , "The Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes." "Robert Quine was a magnificent guitar player -- an original and Stars React to innovative tyro of the vintage beast," Reed said in a statement 'Fahrenheit' released to Billboard.com. "He was an extraordinary mixture of We're with the stars at taste, intelligence and rock'n'roll abilities coupled with major the first Hollywood technique and a scholar's memory for every decent guitar lick ever screening of MICHAEL played under the musical son. He made tapes for me for which I MOORE's scathing am eternally grateful -- tapes of the juiciest parts of solos from documentary players long gone. Quine was smarter than them all. And the proof 'Fahrenheit 9/11' as is in the recordings, some of which happily are mine. If you can find they react to the more interesting sounds and musical clusters than Quine on

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controversial film. 'Waves of Fear' (from Reed's 1982 ""), well, it's probably something else by Robert." "He was a marvelous guitarist, a soulful music lover with high standards and had an eviscerating wit," Patti Smith (news) Band drummer told Billboard.com. "He did not suffer fools gladly, but made up for it with a thinly disguised generosity of spirit." Reuters/Billboard

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