Vic Chesnutt commits suicide

It had warned it in several occasions and finally it it obtained after consuming a lethal dose of relaxing muscular that it supported him in comma several hours. Vic Chesnutt committed suicide in Christmas without doing noise and in silence, a little how it was his life since at the age of 18 a motorcar accident made him weakened in a wheelchair.

That thing about in silence is one to say because Chesnutt leaves to us a record legacy as immense little that has not been claimed yet. “One of the big ones has gone away”, said Michael Stipe, producer of his first two álbumes, Little and West Of Rome, when he knew of the sad ending.

Vic Chesnutt was not happening in his best moment. His friend Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses) gave the alarm voice in his Twitter three days ago and it has hung a bulletin on a web destined to collect funds for his family, since the singer-songwriter has left a debt for 50.000 dollars in medicines that does not cover the North American sanitary system.

It was superhuman of what this man was capable. Vic was brilliant, entertaining and necessary. It developed a style guitarrístico that was allowing him to touch under, the rhythmic one and the soloist in the same song, in spite of only moving two fingers. His agile coordination was inimitable, his impermeable poetry to the influences. He was my best friend. I never saw the wheelchair, it was invisible to my eyes, but for him not. When to gain access to our dressing room it was necessary to raise stairs, opportunely he was saying to me that we would be in the sea. When contraímos the same illness, I said to him that it was the worst pain that he had felt, but he said to me that I already do not feel pain. When I invited him to go for a walk under the rain he answered me that his hands would be wetted. Being in the stage with him, I asked him for a song and he answered me: this one fingers does not work today. Vic was unassailable, enormous and wonderful, but I believe that was seen himself as small, broken. And sad.

Vic Chesnutt had just published At The Cut (Constellation Records, 2009), his last alliance with the people of the Canadian stamp and with ex-Fugazi Guy Picciotto; a jewel of author's folk that will not make insensitive the one who has blood in the veins. Is it the topic indicative 'Coward'? Rest in peace.

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