Perry Bamonte, the Treatment’s longtime guitarist and keyboardist, has died following an undisclosed sickness. He was 65. In a assertion posted to their web site, the band wrote that Bamonte, who glided by the nickname “Teddy,” was “quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and massively artistic,” in addition to “a significant a part of the Treatment story.”
Perry Bamonte was born in 1960 in London. He first joined the Treatment in 1984, as a roadie and Robert Smith’s guitar tech. Six years later, Bamonte was invited to change into a full-time member following the departure of keyboardist Roger O’Donnell. Bamonte first appeared on the group’s chart-topping 1992 album Want, enjoying keys and guitar throughout the report, in addition to six-string bass on “Friday I’m in Love.” He would go on to carry out in additional than 400 reveals with the band and on a number of extra Treatment albums, together with Wild Temper Swings and Bloodflowers. Bamonte left the Treatment in 2005 and rejoined in 2022, forward of their Reveals of a Misplaced World tour.
In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame alongside his Treatment bandmates. You’ll be able to learn the complete assertion from the band beneath.
