R.I.P. Charles Gocher / Sun City Girls
 

from www.suncitygirls.com:

With deep regret, we must announce that Charles Gocher passed away yesterday in Seattle due to a long battle with cancer at the age of 54. He is survived by the two of us who adopted him as a brother 25 years ago and his many friends around the world. He will be missed more than most could ever know. Our thanks to everyone for their support and encouragement during the past three, very difficult years. Many of you were not aware that Charles was ill and that’s because he wanted it that way. Details of a memorial in his honor will be announced soon.

--Alan and Richard Bishop

Oh fuck...fuck, fuck, fuck. All the good ones are dying. This one is the most shocking of all the recent 'bad' deaths. I had no idea he was ill...jesus.

Aww.. :(

Sad to hear about his death. Great band. Sun City Girls were supposed to play in Belgium on the 3rd of March at the (K-RAA-K)3 FESTIVAL 2007.
Jef's not gonna be happy about this.

This is terrible news :(

I am sure feel better that you got that expensive Sun City Girls LP now

but i was glad to see him play, he was such a enthusiastic drummer

ai, what a shame. i had no idea.

no no no this is a terrible thing. hope that the rest continue to make good music.

Terrible and quite unexpected news.

this really does suck, i had no idea he had cancer... r.i.p chuck!

Charlie dead, that just doesn't seem possible. A drummer like that is so alive seeming, that I can't quite fathom him not being so anymore. I only saw them a handful of times (they played so damn infrequently in recent years), but they were always amazing. I so hoped to see him drum again. I can't imagine they would continue as Sun City Girls without him.

I'm doing a tribute to Charlie on my radio show in ten minutes. It streams right here.

I'll post playlist and download information once it's over.

Playlist for What's This Called? on KPSU for Saturday, 2/24/2007 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time.

A tribute to the late Charles Gocher, drummer of Sun City Girls.

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM OR LISTEN TO STREAM HERE!

1450 AMin the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area
98.3 FM on the Portland State University campus

Artist - Song/Track - Album - Recording Label

Pint Sized Sparticus - "Parting the Sea of Tranquility" - Pint Sized Sparticus - Gravel Voice
Sun City Girls - "Metaphors in a Mixmaster" - Valentines from Matahari - Majora
Sun City Girls - "Hit Man Boy/Rappin Head" - This Is Phoenix Not the Circle Jerks - Placebo
Sun City Girls - "Moonflower Power" - Box of Chameleons - Abduction
Eugene Chadbourne w/ Sun City Girls - "I'm Not You/He Was A Boy" - Country Music in the World of Islam Vol. XV - Fundamental
Sun City Girls - "Bullet Through the Last Temple" - Carnival Folklore Ressurection 4: Bullet Through the Last Temple - Adbduction
Sun City Girls - "Electoral Termites" - Cloaven Radio - Abduction
Sun City Girls - "Elvis on a Shoestring" - Carnival Folklore Ressurection 3: Superculto - Abduction
Sun City Girls - "On the Sign" - This Is Phoenix Not the Circle Jerks - Placebo Sun City Girls - "Kasper Hauser" - Sideral Rest - Scratch

I've been trying to get as much Sun City Girls material as possible and yet, I don't believe that I've heard a single song posted on that tracklist.
Thanks, this'll really help me out.

Boiling them down to an hour is next to impossible. They certainly don't have any "hits", even compared to somebody like Sonic Youth. I'd imagine if you talked to 10 different SCG fans and asked for their top 10 favorite songs, you wouldn't get that much repetition at all.

I tuned in for this.
Great job. Thoroughly enjoyable, and nice coverage of their career.

i've been playing 330003 crossdressers ever since i heard the news. it is really sad.

I honestly just grabbed the 5 albums I happen to own (couldn't find Torch of the Mystics, dammit!) and burned a few MP3s from my iTunes onto a cd. Glad you liked it, it really is somewhat coincidental that it covered such a span, but then they tend to put out records with stuff from all over their career (for lack of a better word, "career" seems pretty off talking about a band like this.)

Fucking Gutted.

:(

From http://www.suncitygirls.com/news/

02/26/07

Our sincerest thanks for the many letters, messages, posts, and tributes all of you have sent to us this past week in support after the passing of Charlie. There were simply too many of them for us to even begin to respond to personally.
We have decided to hold a private memorial in Seattle for close friends only to celebrate his legacy. At a later date, when we can collect our thoughts to properly honor him, we will pay tribute to Charles at a public venue by screening films and displaying some of his drawings and photographs, and possibly perform some of his songs.
As many of you have suspected, Sun City Girls will no longer exist as a performing entity. Nor will any new recording projects be created utilizing the name Sun City Girls. There are many unreleased recordings and videos that will surface when time permits to release them.
-- Alan and Richard Bishop

may Charles music and spirit live forever...