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Joe Sell Dead: Lucky Boys Confusion Guitarist Passes Away at 33
- Posted on May 17th 2012 11:15AM by Jason MacNeil
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According to the Chicago Tribune Sell was found in a location close to the group's rehearsal space. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed with toxicology reports pending. Earlier this year Sell had been admitted to hospital for problems with his pancreas, bandmate Kaustubh "Stubhy" Pandav said.
"One of the greatest memories I will always have of him is showing him a song, and while I'm showing it to him you could see his mind working and writing the parts in his head," Pandav told the paper. "It was just brilliant. To watch him work, he really was a wonderful guitar player, a wonderful musician."
After teaching himself to play guitar while in high school, Sell and other musicians formed Lucky Boys Confusion in 1997. The band released two albums on Elektra beginning with 2001's Throwing the Game and the follow-up, Commitment, which was produced by Sublime's Michael Miguel Happoldt. The band was perhaps best known for the songs "Fred Astaire" and "Dumb Pop Song."
In 2004 the group was dropped by the label but released another album, How to Get Out Alive, in 2006. Later that year the band announced it was going on a short hiatus before releasing a new album of old demos and rarities in 2009 called Closing Arguments.
Although the band wasn't touring or recording as much as in previous years, Pandav said Lucky Boys Confusion played about a dozen shows each year around the Chicago area.
Tributes and condolences poured in on Sell's Facebook page on hearing word of his death. On May 1 Sell posted a note regarding getting health insurance after landing a new job.
"Without it, I have had an expensive year," he wrote. "Now that I have it, I probably won't have so much as a stuff nose for a long time...that's how it happens right?"
A visitation for Sell will be held Friday evening in Napierville with a funeral service to be held on Saturday morning.
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nicole.scialabba
I saw Joe everyday for a month and would see him weekly He was a modest, down to earth, very caring, very talented man.
He will be missed by so many people
R.I.P. Joe we love you buddy
if you didn't know the band or Joe...you clearly know nothing about the Chicago music scene from the last 15 years. thanks~Joe's sisters...
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May 18 2012 at 6:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFirst of all... they are relatively known in the punk scene (I mean christ sake, google them, youtube them, wiki them... maybe it will ring a bell)... they've had a hand-full of singles (which you all probably heard on the radio, in a few movies, video games, etc)... they were actually a very talented band... they could play punk, pop-punk, ska, emo, hip-hop, reggae, trip-hop, acoustic, and rap-rock... I don't think they ever had one bad song in all of their albums and EPs.
I would recommend to everyone that is reading this comment to go listen to their albums ASAP if you haven't done so already.
I remember them performing on Letterman & Craig a couple times back in 2004/5. The singles Fred Astaire, Bossman, and Hey Driver was played everywhere in the early-mid 2000s. Just a really good band... got lost in the fray of other bands like Blink-182, New Found Glory, AFI, The Hives, etc back then... but nonetheless held their own in the scene, whether it was underground or mainstream.
Regardless if people heard of the band of not... someone died.. a very talented person who helped influence a lot of young listeners growing up... a lot who enjoyed Lucky Boys Confusion understands how much their music and lyrics meant to them... don't take away from that fact, and don't forget that someone died... I feel like people are so jaded by death.. death is not a happy thing... R.I.P. Joe, you'll be missed!
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May 18 2012 at 1:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow. The disrespect on this page is maddening. Joe was well known in the Chicago local music scene. He was a great musician and LBC touched a lot of lives.
If you've never heard of him or his band, please refrain from adding an ignorant post. Its tacky and hurtful to those of us who were blessed to know Joe.
Who? never heard of them
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