Drummer Jon Card, who performed stints with Canadian punk rockers D.O.A., SNFU, The Subhumans and Character Disaster, has died on the age of 63 in Vancouver.
Card was a staple within the Canadian punk scene for 4 many years, recording and performing with a number of the nation’s most influential and enduring acts.
He died on Monday, associates and former bandmates stated.
On D.O.A.’s Fb web page, the band posted “RIP previous pal” with a black and white photograph of Card and frontman Joe Keithley.
Keithley stated in an interview that Card was “was one of many nice punk rock drummers of all time in Canada.”
“John was a superb man. He was a implausible drummer,” Keithley stated, including that Card performed with the band for about 5 years beginning within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
He’d recognized him from his time taking part in with Winnipeg’s Character Disaster, and estimates Card performed round 400 exhibits with D.O.A.
Keithley stated Card is the seventh former member of the band to cross away.
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“I want he had made one other 20 years,” he stated. “You’ve received to deal with your self.”
In his 2012 approved biography of SNFU, Canadian punk historian Chris Walter calls Card “arguably the very best punk drummer within the nation.”
Walter’s ebook says Card was born Dec. 11, 1960 in Zweibrucken, Germany, to Jean and Lester Card.
His father was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Drive and his mom a instructor, in accordance with Walter’s ebook, SNFU: What No One Else Needed To Say. It says Card began on the piano and oboe, however switched to drums to his mom’s chagrin, and finally joined the Calgary Stampede Marching Band and later took classes from the Calgary Philharmonic‘s principal percussionist Tim Rawlins.
Subhumans bassist Gerry Hannah stated in an interview that he was nonetheless processing the information of Card’s demise, however remembers the drummer as an enthralling and real man with an amazing sense of humour.
Hannah stated Card was critical about his craft, took nice satisfaction in his taking part in and had robust views about how a punk rock band ought to function.
Hannah stated The Subhumans enlisted Card in 2005, releasing the album New Darkish Age Parade the following yr, and Card’s drumming “propelled” the band ahead.
“John simply took on that undertaking methodically and with whole focus and helped us put out, for my part, two of our greatest ever data,” Hannah stated.
Former D.O.A. roadie Chris Crud, who had been in contact with Card’s household, stated his well being had been failing and he’d been in hospital in a coma main as much as his demise.
“That is extraordinarily devastating to numerous us,” Crud stated. “He was an enormous persona.
“He was extremely good and extremely humorous, like he might simply get you laughing for hours to the purpose of like, nearly ache.”
Crud knew Card greater than 40 years. “Watching him drum, I used to be utterly, completely, completely blown away, in awe actually of the simply pure ferocity of his taking part in model,” Crud stated of his first impressions.
Crud stated Card typically had a tv on throughout performances, watching a hockey sport whereas drumming.
Different occasions, he had a bucket prepared in case he threw up throughout a present, not lacking a beat if he did so mid-song.
“He was an immediately enjoyable and accepting and inclusive individual,” Crud stated.
“The enjoyable that might ensue round him was all the time large.”
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