[kj] OT Piggy RIP

[Leigh Newton]

SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(


--- Christof hamille <wessidetempest at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> 
> 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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