Gary Mervin Thain - Tumblr Posts
Fuck......... Oh yeah, I got Gary's portrait tattooed on my leg two days ago.
Gary Mervin Thain - Uriah Heep
born 15.05.1948
Baby piano cries under your heavy index and thumb, pull some strings- let them sing
I have a shit-ton of pictures of Gary
Oh my Gary, it's god...
This is my favorite one I've done of Gary. 💚🖤
A clear shock to the eyes. The eyes of god. The sun is out again. The light, brilliant in your eyes. I can't begin to imagine the heat on my face from those eyes as I look in them. The radiance. Haunting: persistently recurring to the mind; difficult to forget. Hiraeth (Welsh): a blend of homesickness, nostalgia, longing; a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost. But something you may never have had in the first place. Someone you may never have had in the first place.
Here's some pictures of Gary Thain riding David Byron around and sitting on his chest I've accumulated over the years because it's always good to see a fucking smoking hot bassist riding the lead singer around like a horsey! It's so sad they're both gone. 💚🖤
Are you angry because you're dead? They should've went down the street of what was bothering you, figured out what made you tick that way. "If we only had time, only had time for YOU." That rings true here. Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. I have to remind myself of that. If I ask the right questions I'll get the wrong answers. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Your eyes are gone. What in the hell did those eyes see? Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. Looking up out of the water at the rippling lights and shapes as you closed your eyes forever? Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. No one knew if you were crying. You probably wanted it that way. Stop. His eyes... oh my god, his eyes... They're gone! His eyes are gone!.. Stop! Why didn't anyone help you? They let you drown. They watched as you wasted away and when they were done they threw you away. The Thin Man was what they called you. And you're gone. How did the electricity feel as it rolled and crashed through your body? DON'T ASK QUESTIONS YOU DON'T WANT THE ANSWERS TO! They abandoned you. If they only had time for you, right? You're gone but never really truly gone. Haunting... Hiraeth...
I've always been aware that Gary Thain rhymes with Mary Jane but I seriously just realized (after reading the 1,138 pages of IT and 215 pages into re-reading it) that Gary Thain also rhymes with Derry, Maine. Right just now... How... how didn't I notice that before?! I'm obsessed with both so how? 😂 oh wait... Gary Thain is so beautiful that I wonder if he was... very vain? 🤣 I bet he wasn't but once I start rhyming I can't be stopped. It's a curse. 💚🖤
I've been sitting on this one for awhile waiting for the right time to unleash this...this face... W...wh...wha...what even is this face? More importantly, how did he even make this face to being with? What or who made him make it? 🤔 This is a weird one. Did a bird shit on him? Because that's what it looks like. Looks like he's getting ready to say, "aaahhh maaan, that bird shit on me!" 😂 I need to go to sleep.
The two most recent tattoos I got. Actually, I got Gary then Siouxsie and the Banshees lyrics...on my face... then a Type O one (I had an allergic reaction to the green ink so I'll get it covered with black eventually). Theeeen I got Chi.
Sunrise, bless my eyes...
Gary Thain 😢
David and Gary
Everything about this picture is beautiful...even the cross only because it's around Gary's pretty little neck and in between his pretty little tiddies... *sigh* pretty long-haired bassists, am I right? 🤣😂🥲🙂😐😶 I still fucking hate religion. 💚🖤
His pants are green. 🥲 That sweet face... 🥺 He looked so happy... 😭 He's 🐌... just 🐌... just 🐌 with a bass... just baby 🐌 with a bass... just baby 🐌 with big luscious eyes and a bass... 💚🖤
Gary's resting bitch face is perfect. 🥲 Well, his face is just perfect all the time... he's just a pretty little Kiwi. 🥺
Shut up, Gary has talking stick...
Happy birthday, Gary
You know it 🥰🥝💚🖤
What is it about musicians and their noses?
Seriously, they’re just so beautiful.
Gary Thain was a severely under appreciated bassist. He played on some of Uriah Heep's most popular, best selling albums. He made Gerry Bron a crap ton of money but when Gary needed help, Bron threw him in the bin. Here's a frankly horrific first-hand account of Gary's electrocution on September 15, 1974. I took the screenshots from my Instagram but the full thing is online on 'The Day Blog'. I just didn't like that the poster continually commented on Gary's problems he was having at the time. We don't need that commentary on Gary's personal life while telling a story of an electrocution that had nothing to do with existing health issues. Although, Bron wanted to try to spin it as a breakdown and not a bad wiring setup. Someone didn't properly ground the wires to Gary's amp.
Bron wouldn't give Gary time to recover and forced him to continue touring one month later. The man was electrocuted and needed rehabilitation but no one helped him.
Gary was a gift to music and he was just thrown away when he needed help.
This eye-witness account was very hard for me to read and edit out the parts I thought were irrelevant. Gary's story has left an impact on my life forever and I'll never forget it. Sorry it's so graphic but it needs to be known.
Please, everyone take care of yourselves and look after your loved ones. Oh, and... appreciate your bassists...
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Screenshot from uriah-heep.com of the dates that were canceled after Gary's accident.
One month.
Gary was given one month to recover...
For an electrocution and subsequent burns...
On his hands...
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