[kj] Paul Raven

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I never met him, but I have heard nothing but good stories and have nothing
but respect for Paul Raven.

It's not easy to simultaneously be one of the best bassists in the history
of postpunk, industrial, and gothic rock (like it or not, his bass in "Love
Like Blood" qualifies him for that, heh!)

I live that he has a pedigree in 1970s punk that is untouchable, too. To
wit:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsJSdsKbPNE

-0liver





On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:21 PM, jpwhkj--- via Gathering <
gathering at misera.net> wrote:

> Great story.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Tibbits <matt_tibbits at hotmail.com>
> To: gathering <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:45
> Subject: [kj] Paul Raven
>
> I can't believe it's been ten years either.
>
> Some will have heard this before but this story sums the man up for me.
> After being invited at short notice to Prague for a weekend by Jaz and
> Geordie he basically rescued me from a night of homelessness and took me
> under his wing (pardon the pun) after Geordie, who was meant to put me up
> was, shall we say, distracted by the fairer sex. After a bar crawl with
> Raven, Reza and others I ended up back at Raven's flat where he
> enthusiastically played me demos from Hosannas on his laptop - I was
> pinching myself- and I crashed on a sofa at the end of his bed, listening
> to him gently snoring after we'd said Waltons-like goodnights. All very
> surreal. I recall waking up to the sound of an opera singer practicing in
> the apartment above (Raven loved that) and going to his spacious bathroom
> where various porn mags were neatly laid out on the floor! He looked after
> me the whole of that day too, showing me his haunts and taking me to lunch
> at one of his favourite little hangouts before we
> headed t
> o Faust studios to meet the rest of the band. One of the most memorable
> weekends of my life and I still have the Cohiba Double Corona cigar he
> bought me.
>
> Much missed.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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