People Like Us: Obituary for Bruce Reid | Long-Haul Mag

I was first advised to listen to Life in Abdication, and Tucker’s solo work in general, by Bruce Reid, my co-worker on the night shift at Quality Food Centers (QFC), a Kroger-owned grocery chain in the Pacific Northwest. Bruce was a devoted fan of the Velvet Underground, the type who had all the live bootlegs and tracked the members’ solo projects. His encounter with their music and mythos had clearly left an imprint on his life. When I sought to contact him last year about whether he might have any copies of the late ’80s–’90s Tucker fanzine, Moe Works at Wal-Mart, I discovered that he had passed away in 2023 at the age of 53.
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