R.I.P. Dallas Good of The Sadies, 1973-2022

Sadly, Toronto guitarist Dallas Good of The Sadies passed away yesterday at the age of 48. He'll be greatly missed. 

From The Sadies Facebook page...

"It’s with unfathomable sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Dallas on Thursday, February 17th.  Forty eight years old, he died of natural causes while under doctor’s care for a coronary illness discovered earlier this week.  A son, a brother,  a husband, a friend, a bandmate, a leader, a force to be reckoned with, we have no words for the shock we are all feeling.  We join the rest our music community and fans in grief.  The stage is dark today with the all too soon passing of one of music’s brightest lights.  We love you Dallas."

Writes Robyn Hitchcock...

"There’s something numbing and anodyne about tributes - perhaps this helps to mute the pain we feel when a really great person goes. Dallas Good from The Sadies was such a person, and he passed on suddenly this week. He and his brother Travis were the 6’4” rangy multi-instrumentalists that bookended the stage when The Sadies unleashed their dazzling psychedelic twang on audiences around the world. The Sadies are the true Canadian heirs to the Band - inhaling life and exhaling music wherever they go. They live to play and play to live like no other band I know.

  

"They’ve also always been happy to pitch their musical tent somewhere between “Sweethearts Of The Rodeo” and “Piper At The Gates of Dawn”, which drew me right in when I met them in 2002 at Calgary Folk Festival. Dallas taped a message to the door of my hotel room inviting me to join them for some Syd Barrett songs onstage the next day, and we went on from there; I’ve joined them in Winnipeg, Oslo, San Francisco, London and Switzerland to name just a few…

"Dallas was a kindly man - he had high musical standards but he liked to welcome strayfarers into the warm embrace of Sadie, as he always called the band. My heart goes out to his family, band mates and friends - to all who loved him - but I also harbour a terrible selfish grief that I’ll never get to play music with him again in this lifetime. I’m sure many of us feel that way. It’s just an awful shock, for which words are no consolation. So long Dallas, I hope to see you out there some day…