Mazzy Star co-founder David Roback, leader of L.A.'s 'Paisley Underground,' dies at 61

and the Rain Parade helped define the sound of the city’s 1980s and ’90s rock underground, died Monday at age 61. Along with Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval, Roback earned international attention for hits including “Fade Into You,” “Blue Flower” and “Into Dust.”Were it up to him, Roback likely would have preferred this obituary ended there. Stubbornly press-shy, he was philosophically opposed to pop music’s cult of personality, and didn’t care to reveal much about himself at all.

Like many guitarists coming up in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Roback found inspiration in the L.A. post-punk scene, to a degree. “I felt like a punk,” he told The Times in 1990, “but when I picked up the guitar and started playing it, the music didn’t come out sounding punk. It was something else.”

Roback also produced and curated the 1984 communal album “Rainy Day,” which featured members of the Rain Parade, the Bangles, the Dream Syndicate and the Three O’Clock performing covers of songs by the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Big Star, the Beach Boys and others. Two years in the making, “So Tonight That I Might See” was released in 1993. With the rest of the rock world consumed with Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Green Day, the album was hardly a safe bet. Instead of grunge rage, Mazzy Star was offering graceful, melancholy songs of love and loss. But it found an audience among gothic romancers who enjoyed a touch of darkness with their beauty. The album’s hit, “Fade Into You,” earned the band its biggest hit, peaking at No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100.

less doom more prevetion. the 61 is a spiritual killzone timeframe. important wiht spriituals is not to let them obsess wiht the doom darkest days or sth. good does not want chains on it. bad wants chains on everything

*Plays 'Look On Down from the Bridge'* *Cries*

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