Chris Knox In Stable Condition, Jay Reatard Does Something Nice

We’ve been slow to get a story up on Chris Knox this week and that’s not going to cut it. The founder of Flying Nun records and New Zealand punk titan suffered a stroke last Thursday and spent the weekend in an Auckland hospital. Response within the web-o-sphere has been resoundingly cool and first thing this morning, Memphis garage beast Jay Reatard wrote up a nice tribute on his blog. According to an update on Knox’ blog today, the Tall Dwarfs and Toy Love frontman is in stable condition.

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Michael Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Thanks for posting this, but to clarify, Chris Knox was not “the founder of Flying Nun Records.” That was Roger Shepherd. Chris was, however, a prime mover in the early days of Flying Nun, not only as a musician, with his band, Tall Dwarfs, but also as a producer and engineer (often with Doug Hood) on numerous early recordings, including those by The Chills, The Verlaines, and, I think, The Clean.

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