Bryn Merrick
Welsh musician
- Punk rock
- gothic rock
Musical artist
Bryn Merrick (12 October 1958 – 12 September 2015) was a bassist who was a member of Cardiff-based punk band Victimize. He later joined the Damned[1] between 1983 and 1989, replacing Paul Gray, who had left for UFO. Merrick's first release with the Damned was the single "Thanks for the Night" b/w "Nasty". He was the Damned's bassist on the albums Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986).
Merrick played with the Shamones, a Ramones tribute band that toured the UK for five years, until splitting in August 2015.[2]
Merrick died of cancer, at University Hospital Llandough, on 12 September 2015, aged 56.[3]
References
- ^ Raggett, Ned. "Biography: The Damned". Allmusic. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ James McCarthy (12 September 2015). "The Damned bassist Bryn Merrick dies at Llandough Hospital after a battle with cancer". walesonline.
- ^ McCarthy, James (12 September 2015). "The Damned bassist Bryn Merrick dies at Llandough Hospital after a battle with cancer". Wales Online. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
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The Damned
- Dave Vanian
- Captain Sensible
- Monty Oxymoron
- Rat Scabies
- Paul Gray
- Brian James
- Lu Edmonds
- Algy Ward
- Roman Jugg
- Bryn Merrick
- Moose Harris
- Patricia Morrison
- Stu West
- Henry Badowski
- Jon Moss
- Lemmy
- Gary Holton
- Garrie Dreadful
- Spike Smith
- Pinch
- William Granville-Taylor
- Damned Damned Damned
- Music for Pleasure
- Machine Gun Etiquette
- The Black Album
- Strawberries
- Phantasmagoria
- Anything
- Not of This Earth
- Grave Disorder
- So, Who's Paranoid?
- Evil Spirits
- Darkadelic
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
- The Radio One Sessions
- Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987
- Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology
- Friday 13th
- Testify
- The Rockfield Files
- "New Rose"
- "Neat Neat Neat"
- "Stretcher Case Baby"
- "Problem Child"
- "Don't Cry Wolf"
- "Love Song"
- "Smash It Up"
- "I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
- "White Rabbit"
- "The History of the World (Part 1)"
- "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
- "Wait for the Blackout"
- "Lovely Money"
- "Dozen Girls"
- "Lively Arts"
- "Generals"
- "Thanks for the Night"
- "Grimly Fiendish"
- "The Shadow of Love"
- "Is It a Dream?"
- "Eloise"
- "Anything"
- "Gigolo"
- "Alone Again Or"
- "In Dulce Decorum"
- "Fun Factory"
- "Prokofiev"
- "Shut It"
- "Little Miss Disaster"
- "Standing On the Edge of Tomorrow"
- "Devil in Disguise"
- "Look Left"
- "Procrastination"
- Band members
- Discography
- "Nasty"
- The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
- Stiff Records
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