British rocker Perry Bamonte, who joined The Treatment as a roadie earlier than changing into their guitarist and keyboardist, died over the Christmas vacation “after a brief sickness.” He was 65.
The band’s web site confirmed “with monumental disappointment” that the London native “handed away after a brief sickness at dwelling over Christmas.”
Also referred to as “Teddy,” the two-time Grammy nominee was Robert Smith’s guitar tech and private assistant earlier than becoming a member of the band as a musician. His surviving bandmates remembered him as “quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and vastly artistic” and “a heat hearted and important a part of The Treatment story.”
The Smith-fronted band shaped in 1976 and launched their debut three years later. Bamonte, whose brother served because the band’s tour supervisor, served the band behind the scenes within the mid-to-late ’80s however joined The Treatment as a full-time member in 1990 after keyboardist Roger O’Donnell left the band for a interval.
Bamonte’s legacy is memorialized on 1992’s “Want,” 1996’s “Wild Temper Swings,” and 2000’s “Bloodflowers.” His preliminary tenure led to Could 2005, when he and O’Donnell have been dismissed. At that time, Bamonte had been taking part in guitar and generally six-string bass whereas O’Donnell, who returned in 1995, took over keys.
Information of his dying comes three years after Bamonte rejoined the band for the “Reveals of a Misplaced World” tour. Previous to rejoining, he was current when The Treatment was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2019.
The “Friday I’m in Love” rocker’s final present with the band was at London’s Troxy on Nov. 1, 2024 to rejoice the discharge of the “Songs of a Misplaced World,” the band’s 14th studio album, which was recorded previous to Bamonte’s return to lineup
Precisely one yr after the Troxy present, The Treatment introduced {that a} live performance movie of the efficiency would get pleasure from a restricted theatrical launch from Dec. 11, with Blu-ray, DVD and digital variations obtainable by month’s finish.
Bamonte is survived by spouse Donna, who he wed in 2009, in line with IMDb.
