# Vale Matthew Seligman \[RIP\]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [April 18, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vale-matthew-seligman-rip/852040 "2020-04-18T10:24:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vale-matthew-seligman-rip/852040/1 "2020-04-18T10:24:31Z")

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Amazing Soft Boys bass player but he did heaps afterwards too. Great player through punk and whatever, just always sounding good.

> **[The Soft Boys and David Bowie bassist Matthew Seligman has died](https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-soft-boys-and-david-bowie-bassist-matthew-seligman-has-died-2649289)**
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> Musician Matthew Seligman, best known for his tenure on bass for The Soft Boys, has died aged 64, the band's Robyn Hitchcock has announced

Holds together the insects hatching out from under the skin:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QkUEtIJIDXw/maxresdefault.jpg "Kingdom of Love") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUEtIJIDXw)

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vale-matthew-seligman-rip/852040/2 "2020-04-18T12:34:08Z")

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[Moderating]

You might want to make it clearer what your thread is about. I’ve taken the liberty of appending [RIP] to the thread title.

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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vale-matthew-seligman-rip/852040/3 "2020-04-18T13:19:26Z")

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I actually met him when I was supplying the sound system at some gig\* where he did a solo spot (no band, just him his bass (and a drum machine IIRC)). Friendly easy going bloke (naturally being English I was too polite to ask him about the Soft Boys\*\* despite being a massive fan). It was amazing how self-contained he was just accompaning himself with his bass. I recall a Robyn interview where he (Robyn) described how he (Seligman) was “connected” with his instrument, that’s how I remember his playing, it seemed as effortless as breathing.

I have the bassline from Kingdom of Love playing in my head now.

- I think in Southend of all places  
\*\* This was ages before the Bowie connection, though if I’d been rude enough I’d still be asking about his Soft Boys stint