Stairway To Heaven/ Highway To Hell

[gcreptile 10,972]

On 13/04/2021 at 23:03, ObakeFilter said:

Tom Hunting, the drummer for thrash band Exodus, is being treated for cancer. He was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in the stomach back in February, news he shared in a statement from the band on Facebook.

 

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/exodus-drummer-tom-hunting-fighting-cancer/?fbclid=IwAR37F0YHf2Yk7ucPriB6uIHvzcEEhkSPzZoMflUcB6b9Pt6J1E-dFy8BCfI

Some progress in Tom Hunting's cancer fight, it only costs him his whole stomach:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/exodus-tom-hunting-having-full-gastrectomy-as-cancer-battle-continues/

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Just loading a track into the folder for the first Sunday of 2022 and our List of the Lost radio show (playing the music of those who died this year), looks like this thread missed singer/guitarist/song-writer John Lawton (lively form card incl. Lucifer's Friend and Uriah Heep), who died on 29 June

 

[gcreptile 10,972]

On 06/07/2021 at 23:14, gcreptile said:

Some progress in Tom Hunting's cancer fight, it only costs him his whole stomach:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/exodus-tom-hunting-having-full-gastrectomy-as-cancer-battle-continues/

Stomach removed. Apparently, there's not just cancer in his stomach (squamous cell carcinoma), but also mesothelioma cells.

https://www.metalcastle.net/exoduss-gary-holt-says-tom-hunting-removed-all-cancer-and-mesothelioma-nodules/

[ObakeFilter 903]

Drew Hays of the Brooklyn black metal band God’s Bastard has passed away recently, death cause is unknown but suicide is likely.

 

https://www.facebook.com/alec.a.head/posts/10158530487587736

[Phantom 2,533]

Jeff LaBar of Cinderella has died at the age of 58 

[Vinegar Tits 606]

13 hours ago, Phantom said:

Jeff LaBar of Cinderella has died at the age of 58 

 

That's sad news. Saw Cinderella live back in the day - they were pretty good but blown away by support band Little Angels (just before they broke through).

[Phantom 2,533]

13 minutes ago, Vinegar Tits said:

 

That's sad news. Saw Cinderella live back in the day - they were pretty good but blown away by support band Little Angels (just before they broke through).

I'm trying to remember what year that was, I also saw Cinderella on the same bill at Little Angels. First album by Little Angels was pretty good, 2nd was ok-ish and their 3rd album I barely bothered to listen to. 

[Vinegar Tits 606]

It was the Long Cold Winter tour, so back end of 1988 I think.

 

Little Angels never really beat the Too Posh To Mosh mini-LP imho, though Don't Prey For Me was decent.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

The clock has struck 12 on Cinderella. Touring keyboardist Gary Corbett follows Jeff LaBar into the hereafter.

 

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-kiss-and-cinderella-touring-keyboardist-gary-corbett-dies-after-battle-with-cancer/

 

[HDS 235]

Metal Church singer Mike Howe reported dead at 56.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy has had "a bit of cancer" for three years, but it's currently stable:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/stephen-pearcy-ratt-cancer/

 

It was discovered during Hepatitis treatment, so maybe liver cancer? But it's not clear. 

[gcreptile 10,972]

Tim Audette, former guitarist of Fuck the Facts, dead of M.S.:

https://loudwire.com/tim-audette-died/

[arghton 6,742]

https://metalinjection.net/news/the-skull-ex-trouble-vocalist-eric-wagner-hospitalized-with-covid

Eric Wagner, heavy metal singer and former member of Trouble hospitalised with covid and pneumonia.

[ObakeFilter 903]

On 17/08/2021 at 20:04, arghton said:

https://metalinjection.net/news/the-skull-ex-trouble-vocalist-eric-wagner-hospitalized-with-covid

Eric Wagner, heavy metal singer and former member of Trouble hospitalised with covid and pneumonia.

 

Dead.

 

https://arrowlordsofmetal.nl/former-trouble-singer-eric-wagner-62-died-of-covid-10/?fbclid=IwAR2rrnsA6-xauC9tabLAnQcoXboXOSZYNLCBvlQOl1EJ82u22e5jiOoFzIQ

[arghton 6,742]

https://www.loudersound.com/news/rammsteins-till-lindemann-reportedly-arrested-in-russia

Till Lindemann arrested in Russia.

[ObakeFilter 903]

Owen Pegg, guitarist and keyboards and member of the bands A-Sun Amissa, The Final Sigh, Hundred Year Old Man, S.A.A.P.S.S.S., has passed away recently as confirmed by one of his bands.

 

https://www.facebook.com/hundredyearoldman/posts/258781576248093

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Timo Kaltio, bassist briefly with Hanoi Rocks and co-writer on Guns 'N' Roses track Right Next Door To Hell from their Use Your Illusion I album, died 2 September 2021: https://pledgetimes.com/memoir-timo-kaltio-1960-2021/

[arghton 6,742]

Saw articles about his death around a week ago. Apparently a "very quick disease" (pancreatic cancer?)

 

Also worked with Hanoi Rocks. The Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy, real name Antti Hulkko is still somehow alive at 58 despite being a mess (now only uses weed and alcohol) for most of his life, a former heroin addict who has said that he used drugs every day for 20 years in the 80s/90s.

Won't get to 65.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has been hospitalized for a "major heart condition". Tour postponed:

https://loudwire.com/judas-priest-us-tour-postponed-richie-faulkner-hospitalized-heart-condition/

[drol 11,947]

On 28/09/2021 at 10:53, gcreptile said:

Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has been hospitalized for a "major heart condition". Tour postponed:

https://loudwire.com/judas-priest-us-tour-postponed-richie-faulkner-hospitalized-heart-condition/

Discharged.

[ObakeFilter 903]

American guitarist Sean Patrick Kilkenny (Dog Eat Dog, Mucky Pup, All Boro Kings, Murphy's Law, Harley's War, Stigma) has passed away as shared by one of the bands he founded.

https://www.facebook.com/dogeatdog.official/posts/420147562806315

[Spade_Cooley 9,528]

 

 

10/10 banger, let's be honest.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Paul Stanley and KISS are mourning the death of Stanley's longtime guitar tech Francis Stueber, who died Saturday of COVID-19.

Fran is survived by his wife and three sons. He was only 52 years old.

Fran began working with Kiss in 2002 and was a mainstay on Kiss and Stanley's solo tours ever since. Fran also worked behind the scenes for Heart, The Offspring and REO Speedwagon in his career. 

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[arghton 6,742]

https://www.is.fi/menaiset/ihmiset-ja-suhteet/art-2000008358008.html

Tarja Turunen, lead vocalist of Nightwish 1996-2005 reveals that she suffered a stroke in September 2018 at 41 but has mostly recovered from it. Recently wrote her autobiography.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Gared O'Donnell, frontman for rock band "Planes Mistaken For Stars" dead of esophageal cancer at 44:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/planes-mistaken-stars-rocker-gared-25545837

 

Lots of QOs, and actually a public cancer case, but nobody thought he'd obit.