[kj] OT "They Die In 3's So They Say"

[Alexander Smith]

Whoa! I didn't hear about Steve-O from the Vandals passing away! What 
did he die of?

Alex in NYC....back from four days at a wedding in Boston



On Monday, August 29, 2005, at 01:34 PM, LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

> Well it seems in the past two weeks old punks have been dropping like 
> flys. First I heard the singer of the old Texas punk band The Big Boys 
> died and then Steve-O the singer from The Vandals died. Death has been 
> pretty greedy for people in the Punk scene. ~ Lonely Boy
>  
>  
> In a message dated 8/29/2005 8:13:04 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> matt.platts at delerium.co.uk writes:
>
> >This sucks
> >
> >VOIVOD Guitarist DENIS 'PIGGY' D'AMOUR Dead Of Colon Cancer - Aug. 
> 27, 2005
> >VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour passed away Friday night 
> (August
> >26) at approximately 11:45 p.m. due to complications from advanced 
> colon
> >cancer — so advanced that the disease had spread to his liver. D'Amour
> >slipped into a coma Thursday night and died less than 24 hours later 
> in
> >the palliative care unit of a Montreal hospital, surrounded by family 
> and
> >friends. He was 45 years old.
> >
> >Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil reported yesterday that D'Amour — who 
> was
> >diagnosed with colon cancer earlier in the summer — first entered the
> >hospital for a routine operation, but several complications led his
> >doctors to suspect more problems. Then the grim verdict was revealed: 
> the
> >cancer, already too advanced, was inoperable.
> >
> >Only two months ago, D'Amour was in the studio working on the 14th 
> album
> >from the Canadian thrash-metal pioneers VOIVOD. More than two dozen 
> tracks
> >are believed to have been demoed for the CD, for which the group 
> recently
> >inked a deal with The End Records. However, the band were forced to 
> put
> >studio work on hold while bassist Jason Newsted (ex-METALLICA) was 
> treated
> >for tendonitis.
> >
> >In a recent interview with Billboard.com, Newsted spoke about the 
> material
> >slated to appear on the group's next CD. "It's the most complete demos
> >I've ever been involved in," he said. "[VOIVOD singer] Snake has 
> already
> >chosen his effects — exact timing of milliseconds for delay. We've 
> had a
> >long time to develop the demos, so there's about 23 or 25 songs that 
> are
> >absolutely listenable right now."
> >
> >Newsted was a huge fan of VOIVOD before he was invited to join and he
> >remains a great admirer to this day. "They created something a long, 
> long
> >time ago that may have been emulated many, many times since — but 
> nobody
> >can do it like the original," he offered.
> >
> >Prior to his hospitalization, D'Amour laid down guitar tracks for a
> >reunion CD from the legendary AUT'CHOSE, a '70s band from Montreal. 
> That
> >album is expected to surface next summer.
>
>
>  
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