Jack White keyboardist
Long Beach musician and touring keyboardist for Jack White, Ipatagonia outlet new york city2saiah Owens, was found dead in his hotel room in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico on Tuesday morning, according to Mexican news reports.
The remaining portion of White tour in Mexico has been capatagonia better sweater 1 4 zip - men'snceled. A cause has not been released, but media reports indicate marijuana was found in his hotel room and that he appeared to have been intoxicated patagonia outlet new york cityMonday night.
Owens was a staple in the Long Beach music scene where his death is being felt.
patagonia wetsuits new zealand
devastated right now. He was such a great man. It was crazy the reach he had, musically. Recording with bands, producing bands, playing with them, encouraging them, said Rand Foster, owner of Fingerprints CDs in Long Beach, where Owens worked from 1999 to 2003.
patagonia better sweater womens xs
Foster said Owens was working at the store when the musicians from the El Paso based Mars Volta visited the shop. Owens wound up playing keyboard with the band from 2001 until 2010. In 2009, Owens received a Grammy for best hard rock performance for Simulacra with Mars Volta.
Locally, Owens put his mark on many influential Long Beach bands, including making a guest appearance on Sublime album Smoke, playing with Long Beach Dub Allstars and working with his own band, Free Moral Agents.
Beach will have an Ikey sized hole in its heart, said Justin Hectus, co founder of SAM, the annual Summer and Music free concert series in downtown Long Beach, who booked Free Moral Agents, to play last July.
I called him to play the show, he was on tour with Jack White, but he was amazingly accessible, Hectus said. cared more about playing a show in Long Beach than anywhere. He had hometown pride apatagonia fleece reviewsnd love. 11px;
Hectus said Owens was crushing, creative talent. was one of those guys you couldn help but be blown away by his talents, Hectus said. had a way about him where he was giving it all. He didn leave anything on the table. patagonia outlet new york city0Arvizu, who owns The Compound Studio in Signal Hill, recalled meeting Owens about 20 years ago at Gilmore Music, when Owens was playing in the band Pocket Lent.
The relationship bloomed personally and professionally, with Arvizu and Owens producing bands together and staying up late at night to talk music and life.
Arvizu said Owens was a hustler when it came to music and could be seen at live shows from small rooms to conpatagonia outlet store 02cert halls, supporting local and upcoming bands, or else producing records, sitting in on gigs and touring.
just that guy who brings it 100 percent every time, Arvizu said. don know if he a genius, but I know that he brings some kind of magic to whatever he does. He was just very present. said he couldn repatagonia outlet new york city1call ever arguing with Owens in the studio, that he always showed up in a good mood. Owens was an exceptional live player who threw himself completely into each performance, Arvizu said.
would give everything, Arvizu said. that why he played with Jack White and that why he played with Mars Volta, because they saw that. Jack White could get anybpatagonia outlet new york city3ody and he chose Ikey bpatagonia everlong review apartmentsecause he brought something special. Beach musician Rudy De Anda was a friend of Owens for more than a decade and was at work at The Breakfast Bar in Lpatagonia everlong review nexusong Beach when he heard about Owens death.
was a huge mentor; he was someone who always believed in me, said De Anda, who had to go home after learning about his friend death.
Owens, who had just moved to Nashville earlier this year, produced De Anda upcoming EP and played keyboards on the tracks.
recorded it at his home, he said. was getting his new address in Nashville to send him the test pressing of the album. Unfortunately that not going to happen anymore.
Shea Newkirk, who runs the music website Long Beach Independent and produces the Long Beach Folk Revival Festival, said Owens had a huge influence on Long Beach music.
did a lot of producing as well and had his hand in a lot of local projects and he was just such a genuine guy, one of the coolest, npatagonia guide pants katicest persons, Newkirk said.
ThirdMan Records, Jack White label, posted on its wpatagonia guide plants vs zombie game freeebsite: of respect for Ikey, the remaining shows of the Jack White Tour in Mexico have been canceled. We will all miss you, Ikey. You were and are an incredible artist. band had played in Mexico City three days prior to his death and was scheduled to perform in Guadalajara on Tuesday night.
