The Remedy guitarist and keyboard participant Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the legendary British darkish rock band introduced on Friday.Bamonte, who turned a full member of The Remedy in 1990, “handed away after a brief sickness at house over Christmas”, in keeping with a press release revealed on the band’s web site.“It’s with monumental unhappiness that we verify the dying of our nice pal and bandmate Perry Bamonte,” it stated.“Quiet, intensive, intuitive, fixed and massively inventive, ‘Teddy’ was a heat hearted and important a part of The Remedy story.”It added: “Our ideas and condolences are with all his household, he will likely be very significantly missed.”The Remedy — whose 66-year-old frontman Robert Smith is legendary for his modern strategy to music in addition to on-stage stamina — has remodeled itself all through its prolific decades-spanning existence.When The Remedy fashioned in 1976, Bamonte was initially a part of its roadcrew from 1984 earlier than having fun with two stints as a musical member, enjoying guitar, six string bass and keyboard.The primary, from 1990, spanned 14 years; the second stint was from 2022 onwards.In its assertion, The Remedy famous he had helped create quite a few albums, together with “Want” (1992), “Wild Temper Swings” (1996), “Bloodflowers” (2000), “Acoustic Hits” (2001), and “The Remedy” (2004).He carried out in additional than 400 exhibits throughout his first 14-year interval within the band, after which performed one other 90 after rejoining three years in the past, it added.These later gigs had been “among the greatest within the band’s historical past”, the assertion stated.Led by Smith’s plaintive, wailing voice and wealthy guitar textures, The Remedy helped form Goth rock with albums together with 1982’s “Pornography”, which was filled with suicidal imagery.The band later had hits with a lot cheerier materials, together with “Friday I am in Love”.It had stored up touring however earlier than final 12 months’s launch of “Songs of a Misplaced World” had not launched a brand new studio album since 2008’s “4:13 Dream”.The band’s former drummer, Lol Tolhurst, stated in a tribute posted on Instagram that he was “so unhappy” to be taught of Bamonte’s dying, including that he and his spouse “ship our condolences to all that knew him”.“Farewell Teddy,” he added.Bamonte was additionally the bass participant in supergroup Love Amongst Smash, which has launched two studio albums.jj/rmb