Read last night that Ronnie James Dio finally succumbed to his bout with stomach cancer.
What is this Dead Metal Guy Season?
Cripes, I better watch what I eat, and not get on any airplanes!
Never the big Dio fan, though I appreciated his talent. In later years particularly, he seemed like a decent guy from interviews and commentary. The fact that Heaven & Hell may be the best Sabbath album and it isn’t Ozzy’s, it’s his… might be the greatest testament to the guy.
RIP Ronnie James.
Note: You can include Brett Michaels near brush with death as someone ALMOST succumbing to Dead Metal Guy Season... but you'd have a hard time convincing me to associate 'metal' with him.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Aw Man. RIP Mr. Steele
I'm adding my personal note to the outpouring that appears to be building on this bit of news:
Peter Steele, front man for Type O Negative died yesterday of (what appears to be) heart failure at the age of 48.
I'm not going to go into a big personal entry on how much Type O Negative influenced me, or meant to me... or any of that shit. Music is personal, and I'm not introspective enough to define EXACT effects of music on me... though it is hard to overstate how important music is in my life.
But Peter was unique. A unique voice and personality. I liked Type O Negative A LOT. I've seen them live and a lot of people (in more than one locale) have walked up to me and said I looked like him. I don't really look that much like Peter, but people cue in on the height and the long hair. And he was well-known enough in metal, goth, and rock and roll circles to be a name people could put to their impression.
Now I'm going to be the same position as people who resemble Elvis I guess.
Anyway, the point of this is not to be super-maudlin or turn anyone onto Peter's work with TON posthumously. If you don't like their music or somber goth-metal (with dark humor served in heavy doses) than there's no sense in changing that. But his work (and humor) meant a lot to me.
Too bad, sincerely. He made a sort of peace with himself in recent times after being quite the tortured soul most of his adult years. He probably had a lot of good music and showmanship left in him, despite the band's constant sarcasm about always being on the verge of breaking up. Josh and Kenny are making noise like TON will still continue but this is one band who definitely will suffer without its first, best voice.
Peter Steele, front man for Type O Negative died yesterday of (what appears to be) heart failure at the age of 48.
I'm not going to go into a big personal entry on how much Type O Negative influenced me, or meant to me... or any of that shit. Music is personal, and I'm not introspective enough to define EXACT effects of music on me... though it is hard to overstate how important music is in my life.
But Peter was unique. A unique voice and personality. I liked Type O Negative A LOT. I've seen them live and a lot of people (in more than one locale) have walked up to me and said I looked like him. I don't really look that much like Peter, but people cue in on the height and the long hair. And he was well-known enough in metal, goth, and rock and roll circles to be a name people could put to their impression.
Now I'm going to be the same position as people who resemble Elvis I guess.
Anyway, the point of this is not to be super-maudlin or turn anyone onto Peter's work with TON posthumously. If you don't like their music or somber goth-metal (with dark humor served in heavy doses) than there's no sense in changing that. But his work (and humor) meant a lot to me.
Too bad, sincerely. He made a sort of peace with himself in recent times after being quite the tortured soul most of his adult years. He probably had a lot of good music and showmanship left in him, despite the band's constant sarcasm about always being on the verge of breaking up. Josh and Kenny are making noise like TON will still continue but this is one band who definitely will suffer without its first, best voice.
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