Dave Riley, the bassist for influential noise rockers Big Black, has died at the age of 59
he kicks off the track with a steamrolling bass line that sets up Albini and Durango perfectly for noisy, six-string experiments. Considering the band used a drum machine named “Roland,” Riley’s playing gave the group some soul in the rhythm section.Riley met the other members of Big Black in 1982 when he moved to Chicago from Detroit, where he worked at a recording studio where both George Clinton and Sly Stone recorded.
Riley suffered a stroke in 1993 and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The doctors who looked after him thought he had either attempted suicide or taken drugs, which he later said wasn’t the case. He was forced to live in a “convalescent home” for close to 10 years, spending time with what he described as “lowlifes, criminals, psychopaths, and token seniors with whom nobody wanted to bother.
In his later years, Riley rarely did interviews or discussed his time in Big Black. Although he reflected on the group in
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