Keith Alexander (guitarist)
Keith Alexander | |
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Birth name | Keith Alexander |
Born |
23 November 1963 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Died | 11 July 2005 41) | (aged
Genres | Heavy metal, crossover thrash, thrash metal |
Occupation(s) |
Musician Web developer |
Instruments | Guitar |
Years active | 1982–2005 |
Labels | Roadrunner Records |
Associated acts | Carnivore, Dee Snider |
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
- ↑ "Keith Alexander RIP | Nootrope". brooklynvegan.com. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ↑ "Strangeland (1998) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ↑ "RTFM: Keith Alexander | BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News". news.bme.com. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ↑ "In memoriam: Keith Alexander / Boing Boing". boingboing.net. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ↑ "Court date and Cyclist Killed. « Bike Blog NYC". bikeblognyc.com. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ↑ "BikeBlog: Court date and Cyclist Killed". bikeblog.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- 1 2 "keith alexander || why || www.nootrope.net". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008. Retrieved 2016-06-20.