Johnny Strike
Gary John Bassett (June 6, 1948 – September 10, 2018), known as Johnny Strike, was an American singer-songwriter and crime novelist. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was mostly known as songwriter for the proto-punk band Crime based in San Francisco. In 2004, he wrote Ports of Hell alongside William S. Burroughs.
Johnny Strike portrait
Strike died on September 10, 2018 in San Francisco from liver cancer at the age of 70.[1]
Other websites
- Rudos and Rubes Archived 2018-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
- An oral history of Crime
- Crime Radio
- Amoeblog
- Murder by Guitar
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