{"id":66164,"date":"2020-09-14T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sid-mccray-original-bad-brains-singer-has-died\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T03:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:19:00","slug":"sid-mccray-original-bad-brains-singer-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sid-mccray-original-bad-brains-singer-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sid McCray, Original Bad Brains Singer, Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Sid McCray, Original Bad Brains Singer, Has Died<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Sid McCray, who was the original lead singer in iconic hardcore band Bad Brains, has died. The band confirmed the news<\/a> on Facebook<\/a>, and his family posted a GoFundMe seeking assistance for a memorial service. \u201cR.I.P to the Don, my brother\u2014sail on,\u201d the band wrote.<\/p>\n

Prior to McCray\u2019s tenure in Bad Brains, he was friends with H.R. He\u2019s credited in the H.R. oral history Finding Joseph I<\/em> as the person who, in 1977, introduced the band to punk rock. Then a jazz fusion ensemble called Mind Power, he played the group records by the Sex Pistols and Ramones. (The Ramones song \u201cBad Brain\u201d ultimately influenced the band\u2019s name.) He was the band\u2019s first singer, but he left before they made their first recordings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sung with the band for a little while, but I fizzled out because I saw H.R. was a much better singer,\u201d McCray said in the book. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a competition thing; I just thought he was a better singer, more theatrical.\u201d He also explained that he didn\u2019t gel with H.R.\u2019s reggae influence at the time. \u201cAt that time, they saw Bob Marley [in concert] and I wasn\u2019t ready to see Bob Marley. I still had some running and tearin\u2019 things up to do, so we split ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCray reunited with Bad Brains in 2017 for his first performance with them in 39 years.<\/p>\n

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