Keith Alexander (guitarist)

Keith Alexander (November 23, 1963 – July 11, 2005) was a guitarist, cyclist and body modification enthusiast.

Career

Keith Alexander was the guitarist for the thrash metal band Carnivore, on whose first album he played. He then joined Brooklyn-based band Primal Scream.^[1]

During the late 1990s he was a member of Dee Snider's SMFs. Alexander also worked as a talent finder, though he was technically credited as "piercing consultant"^[2] on Snider's movie 1998 movie Strangeland.^[3] TO save money on special effects and for a sense of reality in appearance, Alexander looked in the body modification community for extras, who were modded for some roles.

In the 2000s, he became a somewhat well known blogger, being associated with blogs such as Boingboing.^[4]

Death

Keith Alexander died in a bicycle accident on July 11, 2005. He lost control of his bike while passing child and crashed into a fence on Shore Road, in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. It was reported that had he been wearing a helmet he would likely have survived.^[5][6] Alexander's website, nootrope.net, still exists at archive.org.^[7] Regarding his death, he states:

I look at this place as a scrapbook / journal. A digital version of the paper ones I've kept my entire life. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't read any more into it than necessary. And in a morbid way, a record of my predilections that will hopefully live on after I die, on some server, somewhere. Grandiose? Maybe. Maybe I just have the balls to admit it. Maybe one day, in the year 2201, a relation of mine will see these zeros and ones, and say, "Damn, he had fun." That is, if we don't annihilate one and other. [sic]^[7]

Discography

• Carnivore (1985)

References