on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cMy great friend Dave, with his straight out of Detroit attitude, was a\u00a0true Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll lifer. He was soulful, intelligent, heartfelt, opinionated, bruising and often fantastically argumentative. Watching\u00a0Jon Landau and Dave drive each other crazy over some arcane piece\u00a0of music would\u00a0make my day. He wrote the first book about me, Born To Run, and Dave always had my back. He deeply believed in what I was\u00a0trying to accomplish and his lifetime of support meant the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAdded Springsteen, \u201cMore than anything else, I admired Dave as a man of conscience and commitment. He lived and stuck by his values come hell or high water. Wherever he is, I hope he\u2019s receiving\u00a0some of the grace, happiness and reward he\u2019s brought\u00a0into my life. God bless you Dave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cDave Marsh has always been a tireless advocate of justice, human rights and rock \u2019n\u2019 roll,\u201d wrote Tom Morello, co-founder of Rage Against the Machine, in 2023 upon the publication of an anthology of Marsh\u2019s work titled Kick Out The Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHis pen and voice are an important player in the history of the music we love and the struggle for a more just and decent world,\u201d Morello wrote.<\/p>\n
\n\tLauren Onkey, the former senior director of NPR Music, in her introduction to Kick Out the Jams, wrote: \u201cDave Marsh has been writing about music like our lives depended on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn 2021, a host of authors, activists and artists \u2014 including Morello, Pete Townshend, Springsteen, Nona Hendryx, Dion DiMucci, Jackson Browne and Steven Van Zandt \u2014 took part in online sessions billed as \u201d Land of Hope and Dreams: A Celebration of Dave Marsh\u2019s Work and Vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAcross more than five decades, through his writing about music, Marsh offered insights into issues of community, class, race, politics, health, the environment, the music industry and more. Marsh also was a generous mentor and advocate for many younger music writers.<\/p>\n
\n\tMarsh \u201chelped build alliances that fought against racial and class bigotry and for free speech, voting rights, economic justice \u2014 inside and outside the music industry \u2014 environmental justice, universal health care, cancer research, as well as visions of human liberation,\u201d said longtime friend and anthology co-editor Danny Alexander at the time of that 2023 celebration. \u201cPerhaps more than anyone I know, he taught me what that old Woody Guthrie line meant:\u00a0\u2018Nobody wins unless everybody wins.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMarsh was predeceased by his daughters Kristen Ann Carr and Sasha Carr. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Carr.\u00a0A complete list of his survivors and plans for a service were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
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