Jake Brockman RIP

by **Dave Smith** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:45 am

Fifth Bunnymen died in bike accident.RIP.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:54 am

Dave Smith wrote:Fifth Bunnymen died in bike accident.RIP.

From the EATB twitter feed: "It is with deep regret that we must inform you of the death of Jake Brokman the bunnymens origional keys player& 5th bunnyman."

by **In The Margins** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:07 am

Very sad.

http://sideburnmag.blogspot.com/2009/09 ... n-rip.html

by **JackT** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:24 pm

WTF?????????????

by **tonywojo** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:48 pm

JackT wrote:WTF?????????????

What did he play on?

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:55 pm

I know very little about Jake Brockman. I take he was the unofficial fifth Bunnymen on the tours and grey album playing keyboards, and became a full member with the Noel Burke-fronted Bunnymen.

Maybe someone could detail a little bit more about him for those who know little. I haven't looked at the official site yet so I have no idea as to whether they have written an obituary or anything like that.

by **Scouser** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:58 pm

Abit like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, the Bunnymen are dying in the wrong order.

by **Voodoo Billy** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:00 pm

That's very sad news. I remember, as a skint 15 year old soon after Ocean Rain was released, writing to the Bunnymen's PO Box in Liverpool to ask if I could buy a single copy of their Freakbeat fanzine and (probably a few weeks later) an envelope coming back with a copy of the fanzine and a handwritten letter from Jake explaining that you had to subscribe with words to the effect that "If you're that skint here's a free copy of the first issue". It meant a lot that he'd taken the time to do so, even more so when I found out a year or two later that he was regarded as the fifth Bunnyman.

I'm sure there are others on the forum who will know more about his appearances with the Bunnymen but I know he played harspsichord on the Life at Brians EP and played keyboards and guitar on the 1986 American tour. I am sure he also played keyboards on the Bedbugs and Ballyhoo performance for the BBC's Whisle Test around 1986-7? He continued in the Reverberation-era Bunnymen and later recorded the BOM album with Damon Reece.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:34 pm

bunnymen.com did it right:

by **black francis** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:54 pm

Other than the Jake Brockman experience I really knew nothing about him but based on the responses from both sites he sounded like a good guy.

by **kelley** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:11 pm

think thats jake on the shaker in this one -- there were video of other tracks he was on but maybe have disappeared from youtube.... also his BOM band were cool dancy stuff with will and damon reece i think. Came out on the spiffing label back in early 90's.

and back in the day on keys::

was a nice dude.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:33 pm

by **Frank The Bunny** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:43 pm

by **Lancashire Fusileer** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:51 am

Oh hell that's dreadful news.

RIP Jake xxxx

One thing and I really hope this isn't taken the wrong way.
The twitter spelling is atrocious. I have say I find it very sad that the trouble hasn't been taken to spell Jake's name correctly.

It is with deep regret that we must inform you of the death of Jake Brokman the bunnymens origional keys player& 5th bunnyman.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:05 am

Its nat gud enuff is it? Pruf reeding 104 charactrs is knot rellay that hurd innit?

Jake Brockman RIP

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