Robert Smith, left, Simon Gallup, middle, and Perry Bamonte of British rock group The Remedy maintain a plaque after being inducted into Hollywood’s Rockwalk in Los Angeles, Friday, April 30, 2004.
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NEW YORK — Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Remedy, has died. He was 65.
The band made the announcement on their official web site on Friday.
“It’s with monumental disappointment that we verify the demise of our nice buddy and bandmate Perry Bamonte, who handed away after a brief sickness at house over Christmas,” the band wrote.
“Quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and massively artistic, ‘Teddy’ was a heat hearted and very important a part of The Remedy story,” the assertion continued. “Our ideas and condolences are with all his household. He will likely be very vastly missed.”
Bamonte labored with the band in varied roles from 1984 to 1989, together with as roadie and guitar tech. He formally joined the band in 1990, when keyboardist Roger O’Donnell give up. It was then that he turned a full-time member of the group, taking part in guitar, six-string bass and keyboard.
Having joined simply after the band’s mainstream breakthrough, 1989’s “Disintegration,” Bamonte is featured on a lot of The Remedy’s albums, together with 1992’s “Want” — which options the career-defining hits “Friday I am in Love” and “Excessive” — in addition to the 1996’s “Wild Temper Swings,” 2000’s “Bloodflowers” and 2004’s self-titled launch.
Bamonte was fired from The Remedy by its singer and chief Robert Smith in 2005. At that cut-off date, he had carried out at over 400 reveals throughout 14 years. Bamonte rejoined the group lately, touring with the band in 2022 for one more 90 gigs.
In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame alongside the remainder of The Remedy.
His final efficiency with the band was on Nov. 1, 2024 in London for a particular one-off occasion to launch their newest album and first in 16 years, “Songs of a Misplaced World.” The live performance was filmed for “The Remedy: The Present of a Misplaced World,” a movie launched in cinemas globally this month. Additionally it is accessible to buy on Blu-ray and DVD.
The Related Press described “Songs of a Misplaced World” as “lush and deeply orchestral, swelling and highly effective” — among the finest of the band’s profession.
