Thursday, July 2, 2009
Music news R.I.P. B Jay Womack
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Last night at 9 p.m., Atlanta's garage rock mascot and the subject of this week's CL cover story, Benjamin Jay Womack aka Bobby Ubangi, lost his year-long battle with cancer.
A previously scheduled benefit show to cover B Jay's funeral expenses takes place on Sat., July 4.
Anyone interested in donating to the Bobby Ubangi Funeral Fund can do so via a Paypal account set up by friend and CL music writer Chad Radford.
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Funeral benefit for B Jay Womack with Carbonas, Predator, Customers and Barreracudas. $7. 4 p.m. Sat., July 4. 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769. www.529atl.com.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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time heals. but a guy like bj is going to take a lot of time. some video from last nights benefit: http://www.vimeo.com/5422594
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I remember when BJ took me to my first black lips show. That gig showed me that Atlanta punk rawk wasn't just a bunch of skinheads beating each other senseless (like it had been before I had moved out of Atlanta a few years ago) but just about having fun listening to good music. He will be missed.
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