Too young, too young.
If you don't know who he was, you should probably read more. OK. Half of the Go-Betweens. Aussie. 48. Poorer than he should have been. Gifted songwriter. And gone too soon.
I never properly met him, though I drank at the table next to him once in a pub.
If people ask me what I would rather do with my life, my default answer is "rhythm guitar player in the Go-Betweens". Which technically would have been Grant. Though I really meant just to help out.
I have no real idea if he was a great bloke, or a shit. I've not heard of anyone having a word against him, and in interviews he seemed a fairly good guy. But you can't tell. And now I never will.
But assuming he was just an average joe, with a bigger than average talent, he deserved a longer innings.
He made people happy. Not a bad epitaph. But living longer would have been better. I guess now we'll never hear that new album for this year.
Buy Horsebreaker Star, or Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express.
Bye Grant. Thanks
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