Stuart Zender

[Sean]

Stuart Zender on this video. Fabulous. What an influence. At such a young age too.

 

 

 

What post-Jamiroquai should we be listening to? He really dropped off the radar. Well as far as I could see.

Edited May 20 by Sean

[Eldon Tyrell]

Man, I clicked on this post, thinking he had passed away. Good to know that he is still alive 😊 

[Musicman666]

18 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Man, I clicked on this post, thinking he had passed away. Good to know that he is still alive 😊 

that's what i thought also ...

[snorkie635]

36 minutes ago, Musicman666 said:

that's what i thought also ...

Me likewise.

[Hellzero]

14 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

Me likewise.

So did I...

 

Edited May 20 by Hellzero
Bloody big fingers

[Skybone]

"I'm not dead"

 

 

 

[Delberthot]

We need to make it obligatory when starting threads about musicians, especially of a certain age, to include in the title:

 

""Famous Person's Name Here" - not brown bread"

[Doctor J]

Stuart Zender - Forgotten but not gone

[Musicman666]

5 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Stuart Zender - Forgotten but not gone

...and why not?

[miles'tone]

How could we forget?

 

[mike257]

On 18/05/2025 at 22:19, Sean said:

What post-Jamiroquai should we be listening to? He really dropped off the radar. Well as far as I could see.

 

He did about 5 years as Mark Ronson's musical director and bassist, mid 2000s to early 2010s, so he's on all the live stuff from when the Version album blew up. 

[AinsleyWalker]

Blimey, what a choice of title for this thread 😂

[2elliot]

Change the click bait thread title.

[BassTractor]

Indeed: please change the click bait thread title, @Sean
It's not funny, and even if this was not on purpose, I have no words ...

Edited May 20 by BassTractor

[Sean]

1 hour ago, BassTractor said:

Indeed: please change the click bait thread title, @Sean
It's not funny, and even if this was not on purpose, I have no words ...

There you go.

[Chris2112]

What was the thread title previously then, saying as it has caused such commotion? 

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

What was the thread title previously then, saying as it has caused such commotion? 

 

"Stuart Zender remembered".

 

Personally, I think that just having someone's name with no other information is just as bad - I'm on an email list and in a newsgroup where a name with no other detail as a thread title means the named person has died.

[Burns-bass]

Has anyone actually been “triggered” by this?

 

World gone mad.

[AinsleyWalker]

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

Has anyone actually been “triggered” by this?

 

World gone mad.

The world has gone mad because a few people pointed out how the old headline was clickbait and strongly implied the bloke had died? 

Time for a lie down mate. It's going to be ok. 

[Burns-bass]

Just now, AinsleyWalker said:

The world has gone mad because a few people pointed out how the old headline was clickbait and strongly implied the bloke had died? 

Time for a lie down mate. It's going to be ok. 

It was an innocent mistake by someone who probably didn’t understand the normal etiquette on a forum.

 

The histrionic responses are what they are. Polite personal message could have sorted it all out. Guess it’s how forums work. 

 

Hey ho. I need a lie down…

[AinsleyWalker]

14 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

It was an innocent mistake by someone who probably didn’t understand the normal etiquette on a forum.

 

The histrionic responses are what they are. Polite personal message could have sorted it all out. Guess it’s how forums work. 

 

Hey ho. I need a lie down…

 

You don't need to be a master of 'online etiquette' to understand saying 'Insert Name Remembered' 100% suggests they've died, in any context. 

I don't see a single ''histrionic'' response, until the 'world gone mad' comment, that is. 

[BassTractor]

23 hours ago, AinsleyWalker said:

I don't see a single ''histrionic'' response, until the 'world gone mad' comment, that is. 

@Burns-bass was probably in part responding to my "I have no words", as all of the nine previous comments about the thread title were milder.
It's what I decided on after noticing the OP had been online just before my comment, but had not responded in the slightest to the earlier comments on a thread title that effectively said: "Guys! Stuart Zender is dead!"
It's quite possible I should've been able to find better words, but I didn't at the time.

As to the idea of sending a PM: not everyone is prone to writing PMs on an online forum, and not everyone even looks at PMs.
There's also the aspect of a whisper-in-yer-ear PM possibly making too huge a point of it all. When we're sitting around a pub table in a cold winter, and someone comes in and leaves the door open, someone else will shout "Close that door!" and two minutes later it's all forgotten. Whispering in his ear instead (while the door is still open) might well have unsoughtafter effects.

I also notice with interest that Burns-bass opted to not write a nice PM to me before his "world gone mad".
Dunno what that tells about him or me.

 

Edited May 23 by BassTractor

[miles'tone]

Anyway, Stuart Zender... coolest of cats, supernatural talent so young. 

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, miles'tone said:

Anyway, Stuart Zender... coolest of cats, supernatural talent so young. 

Jamiroquai had a magical swagger about them at that time, both musically and visually. Zender was a massive part of it 👍 

[Huge Hands]

That 1993 video is the ultimate lineup for me. 

 

I got to see them live twice after the 2nd and 3rd albums with Derrick on drums.  Although I thought Derrick was really good, I always wished I had seen them with Nick Van Gelder on drums - I wonder why he left so early on - he seems really spot on in this gig.

 

I always thought JK was a bit of a pillock, but absolutely loved the Zender era music they produced.  They definitely lost something when he left IMHO.