{"id":4613,"date":"2014-09-16T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/09\/16\/peter-gutteridge-the-clean-passed-away\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:05:41","slug":"peter-gutteridge-the-clean-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/09\/16\/peter-gutteridge-the-clean-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gutteridge (The Clean) passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.offthetracks.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/peter-gut.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"204\" height=\"205\" \/><br \/>A founding member of the Clean, Peter Gutteridge had little time for many of his Kiwi contemporaries, but was one of the greats of Flying Nun. And there goes another. In a scene of unsung heroes, one of the least sung will be making no more music, changing no more lives from his place on the periphery. Peter Gutteridge \u2013 described as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/flyingnun.co.nz\/stories\/159\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">a true hero of New Zealand music<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u201d by Flying Nun, the label that has released so many of his recordings \u2013 has died.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gutteridge, who was in his early 50s \u2013 no one seems to know exactly how old \u2013 had been a founder member of arguably the two most important Flying Nun groups, the Clean and the Chills, though he didn\u2019t have a lot of time for the latter. \u201cIt was too controlled for me. There wasn\u2019t enough room for me to really explore stuff,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/messandnoise.com\/articles\/4575411\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">he said in a rare interview last year<\/span><\/span><\/a>, with unusual frankness for a man from a small place, in a music scene where everyone knew each other. \u201cIt was too regimented. I\u2019m not a particularly technical guitarist, but I like certain sounds. Certain rhythms. I\u2019m interested in drone music as well as melody. I don\u2019t like to pigeonhole myself too much. I just found that with the Chills I just couldn\u2019t go with their aesthetic. It bored me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he didn\u2019t care for a lot of the music he was considered a founding father of \u2013 the music known as the Dunedin Sound for the South Island city it came from. Hence the group he would form in the late 1980s, Snapper, had little in common with the jangly melancholy of the Dunedin Sound. They sounded like a band who took drugs, and in that interview last year Gutteridge took quite a scornful attitude to those who view drugs as no more than a bit of fun: \u201cMost people take hallucinogens and never take them again. That is the common thing. They have a brief phase in their life when they take them. I, on the other hand, take hallucinogens. I take them on a serious level. Not for amusement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<br \/>Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthetracks.co.nz\/r-i-p-peter-gutteridge\/\">http:\/\/www.offthetracks.co.nz\/r-i-p-peter-gutteridge\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A founding member of the Clean, Peter Gutteridge had little time for many of his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}