Kincaid, 57, died of coronary heart failure Jan. 4 at Emory College Medical center in Atlanta. A memorial services is being prepared.
He could under no circumstances be mistaken for a informal music supporter.
“He had an incredible memory and an encyclopedic intellect,” said more mature sister Tammy Kincaid Foley. And a serious knack for recognizing rising expertise.
“I remember him as soon as indicating we will need to go to the Biltmore Resort,” claimed Foley. He mentioned, ‘There are these two bands you will need to listen to.’”
The early 1980s function was in the hotel lobby, the place she located herself up-close and particular with a youthful, fairly eco-friendly but promising Athens export named R.E.M.
Kincaid turned friendly with them and with the customers of Drivin’. The team labeled him their unofficial archivist.
“He knew far more about our band than we did,” said Nielsen with a laugh. “We could phone him up and say ‘What was that song we did one particular time and at what venue?’”
Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ lead singer Kevn Kinney recalls how Kincaid after drove through a snowstorm for a single of their album launch events at Athens’ 40 Watt Club. With the roads worsening that night, R.E.M’s Peter Buck invited them all to crash at his Victorian property.
Kincaid devoured music publications, wrote for sector magazines and haunted nearby record outlets.
His radio show created a dedicated subsequent of listeners enamored of his recipe of diligently curated songs, stories about groups and artists as well as stay and recorded interviews.
Foley remembers the time her brother interviewed punk team The Ramones on the station, and found out that Joey Ramone had a raging sinus an infection and essential medicine.
“He drove them all-around Atlanta. Joey was hoping to get somebody to fill a prescription and Jon knew a dude from higher university whose dad was a pharmacist, and they went to his position but they would not fill the prescription for the reason that it was created in Florida.”
His experience was by no indicates constrained to rock, claimed Amy Potter, a former WREK station manager.
Kincaid programmed substantially of the station’s standard playlist, a musical soup blending every thing from blues, bluegrass, article-punk and other sorts of rock to jazz, classical and significant band alternatives.
Potter recalled one of the school’s deans hoping to shoo Kincaid out when he continued working in numerous roles prolonged following his student times were around.
She resisted. “I could not inform Jon to depart,” she stated. “He was generally there and aiding out,” each with his new music expertise and educating generations of college students on just how school radio was finished.
Kincaid struggled with his wellbeing in modern several years, which his mates knew about. When he necessary quintuple bypass surgical procedures in 2004, neighborhood artists set collectively a reward live performance at the Wide variety Playhouse. He’d been performing working day work to feed his volunteer radio habit but had no health-related insurance plan.
“He was just a music geek” is how close friend Scott Long summed him up. And his pursuits had been never ever shallow.
“Once he jumped into any rabbit hole he bought into, he chased it all the way to the conclude.”
