Tony and Chip Kinman, photo by Marcus Leatherdale
There was an anti-authoritarian pulse that coursed through Tony Kinman’s work until the end: When Kinman lost his life to pancreatic cancer in May, rock ’n’ roll lost one of its greatest champions.
Working side by side for decades with his brother Chip Kinman, whether it was in their first wave political punk band The Dils, or producing his brother’s new rock ’n’ blues band, Ford Madox Ford, Kinman left his own unique imprint on rock ‘n’ roll: Working upstream and against trends, he carried a torch for all that was holy and good about the music, always questing for the possibility that it would manifest its original intention to upset and forever change things like it did in its formational 1950s. When that promise didn’t deliver, he dug deeper toward the source, searching for rock’s proverbial lost chord.
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Filed under: Protest Songs, Punk, Chip Kinman, Rank and File, Tony Kinman
Denise Sullivan 