I don’t know if you noticed but Starchild died of lung cancer last Wednesday, leaving us without the premier funk guitarist in the world.
Garry Shider, the funk-rock guitarist and singer whose spacey but soulful and rhythmically powerful playing provided one of the pillars of the influential Parliament-Funkadelic sound of the 1970s and propelled him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday at his home in Upper Marlboro, Md. He was 56.
That’s far too young.
