[kj] OT Former POISON IDEA Guitarist PIG CHAMPION Found Dead -Feb. 1, 2006

[Christof hamille]

I snagged it from Blabbermouth.net yesterday

Chris


>From: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>,"A list about all things 
>Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
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>Subject: Re: [kj] OT Former POISON IDEA Guitarist PIG CHAMPION Found Dead 
>-Feb.	1, 2006
>Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:34:15 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>
>
>Can anyone tell mw where this obit came from?
>
>Alex in NYC
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >From: Christof hamille <wessidetempest at hotmail.com>
> >Sent: Feb 1, 2006 9:16 AM
> >To: gathering at misera.net
> >Subject: [kj] OT Former POISON IDEA Guitarist PIG CHAMPION Found Dead - 
>Feb.	1, 2006
> >
> >I am crushed
> >
> >Former POISON IDEA Guitarist PIG CHAMPION Found Dead - Feb. 1, 2006
> >Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, guitarist for POISON IDEA, died at his 
>home
> >in Portland, Oregon, Monday night (Jan. 30). A founding member of the
> >seminal punk band, he continued to appear with POISON IDEA throughout the
> >late Nineties and into the new millennium, despite officially quitting 
>the
> >band in 1993. Variously described as "spectacularly fat," and "the single
> >largest man in hardcore history," Roberts crowned himself "Pig Champion"
> >after hitting an impressive 450 lbs. on the scales. The highly regarded
> >guitarist was revered by a devoted following worldwide. No further
> >information is available at this time.
> >
> >According to the Taang! Records web site, POISON IDEA was formed in 1980 
>in
> >Portland, Oregon by frontman Jerry A., Roberts, bassist Chris Tense, and
> >drummer Dean Johnson. The group debuted three years later with the EP 
>"Pick
> >Your King", cramming 13 songs into a 16-minute time frame; the "Record
> >Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes" EP followed in 1985, fine-tuning the
> >band's blistering sound and fatalistic worldview. Thanks to their
> >notoriously insatiable diet of drugs, alcohol, and junk food, the members 
>of
> >POISON IDEA all ballooned past the 300-pound mark by the time of the 1986
> >full-length "Kings of Punk". Tense and Johnson were then dismissed from 
>the
> >lineup, although the former returned in time for 1987's "War All the 
>Time",
> >recorded with second guitarist Eric "Vegetable" Olsen and drummer Steve
> >"Thee Slayer Hippy" Hanford; Tense was then replaced by bassist Mondo for
> >1988's "Filthkick" EP. Both the "Darby Crash Rides Again" and "Ian 
>MacKaye"
> >EPs followed a year later, another period of roster tumult which made way
> >for the addition of guitarist Kid Cocksman (soon replaced by Aldine
> >Striknine) and bassist Myrtle Tickner. POISON IDEA returned in 1990 with
> >"Feel the Darkness", with a series of live releases (the "Official 
>Bootleg"
> >EP, the "Live in Vienna" EP, and the "Dutch Courage" LP) preceding 1992's
> >"Blank Blackout". A collaboration with Jeff Dahl appeared a year later,
> >concurrent with the covers album "Pajama Party"; however, in the wake of 
>Pig
> >Champion's subsequent departure POISON IDEA disbanded, releasing their 
>June
> >6, 1993, farewell gig at Portland's La Luna as "Pig's Last Stand".
> >
> >
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