Jill Janus of Huntress - suicide at 43 after what appears to be a long list of illnesses

Mark Shelton of Manilla Road RIP - great band, went to Malta principally to see them

Won Bruce Dickinsons Scream For Me Sarajevo on DVD and cd on Planet Rock's Cryptic Conundrum this morning

Vinnie Paul - dead at 54. No cause released yet

Danny Kirwen - Peter Green's guitar foil on early Fleetwood Mac songs like Albatross, Oh Well, Green Manalishi, etc. Died at 68

Anal Cunt guitarist Josh Martin - died falling from an escalator in a shopping mall - aged 45

Tet wrote:

someone else wrote:Vince Neil playing the Koko and charging £60 a ticket!

Ha ha. That's a bit optimistic. I'll see him at Wacken the following week.

It did make me chuckle when he played a festival last year and straight after the promoter came onstage to apologise for booking him!

Vince Neil playing the Koko and charging £60 a ticket!

Just announced - Dale Winton, dead at 62

Going way back - a Chris Slade thread got deleted due to 'copyright infringement', more due to the constant piss taking of the PR Austin Dickinson trying to get the forum onside for Rise To Remain One school age lad who used to write long essays cut and pasted from Wikipedia and lecture posters abou...

Pat Torpey - drummer for Mr Big' died aged 58. Hadn't left the band but had suffered from Parkinson's Disease so was an occausional percussionist and programmed drum machines for the last couple of albums

Tet wrote:

someone else wrote:Still in touch with ex members like Black Lagoon, Littlemissmetal, Twaddlefish,

I don't know Black Lagoon,

You're friends on FB

im about to digress but just to clarify. freedom of speech, or more broadly freedom of expression, is far from absolute. in fact, theres quite a few exceptions. cheers. :) That was the point, really - Andy basicly argued he couldn't support anyone who defended the free speech of an opinion he didn'...

He doesn't feel the need to explain himself (which is why the promos with Axl looked odd prior to the tour!) - apparently (usual caveats) he had a 10 year plan for the end of ACDC and Jonno's hearing issues upset that, so no stopping, no sentimentality, get on with it.

Andy Hall (still in action on every news page on Facebook) Ha ha. I don't get to see that any more. He blocked me a while back after completely failing to see that I was arguing for democracy, not supporting fascism. Ho hum... I remember that! Didn't seem to get that free speech is absolute and you...