Michael Ward, former guitarist for the Wallflowers, has died on the age of 57.
The scoop used to be showed by way of the Wallflowers’ social media.
“With love and gratitude the Wallflowers say farewell to the good and singular Michael Ward,” their submit learn. “Michael’s position and abilities will ceaselessly stay a the most important a part of the band’s historical past. His contributions to tune started sooner than his time with the Wallflowers and endured lengthy after his time with the band. Paying attention to Skinny Lizzy on a sorrowful day. Leisure now Mike. A lot like to his circle of relatives and his two kids.”
Ward used to be a member of the band, led by means of Jakob Dylan, from 1995 to 2001. He seemed on two in their albums, 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse, which yielded a couple of Grammy nominations and 2000’s (Breach).
“For me, what tune is all about is sitting down and growing songs from scratch,” Ward stated when he introduced his departure from the band. “That is my existence, and it is not in reality about including guitar portions to somebody else’s tune. That isn’t in reality gratifying for me. For a very long time we had been writing in combination, after which that stopped, and that made me beautiful unsatisfied.”
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“It used to be interfering with my bicycle driving each day,” he endured, relating to his interest out of doors of tune. “It is simply difficult for me to dedicate my existence to operating on somebody else’s songs and no longer do my very own stuff. It is too stifling. Jakob is excellent at what he does, and gear to him, however it simply is not my factor.”
The Wallflowers proceed to excursion with Dylan because the lone unique member. Their most up-to-date album, Go out Wounds, used to be launched in 2021.
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