off: people who died

[Johan Edlundh]

>> Is this the Uriah Heep frontman we're discussing?  When did he check
>> out?  And is there some curse on UH?  And if so, when can we expect
>> Mick Box to cash in?
>>
>Yup, the UH frontman (although he had left UH long before his death. He was
>fronting a band called something like Black Diamond or maybe he was just
>performing solo.

Rough Diamond - 1977 - Not a milestone in Rock History.

>I recollect an LP that had him on the front cover, which
>I think was a solo LP; I had stopped buying UH and UH-related material by that
>time, so this one was never heard by me).

Baby Faced Killer - 1978 - Not a milestone in Rock History.
or perhaps
Byron Band/On the Rocks - 1981 - Not a milestone in Rock History.

even the last Byron/Heep album - High and Mighty - was far from being a
milestone in Rock History...


>This incident took place sometime in
>the late '70's/early '80's. Curse on UH? I know they had the devils' own time
>in keeping a bassist until Thain came along and that they are now pretty much
>a mediocre metal band, but no more cursed than anyone else...I think that Box
>and the drummer are the only two original memebers left.

it was actually the same with the drummers until Lee Kerslake showed up
together with Thain on the Demons and Wizards album - Kerslake wasn't an
original member, though he was present in the pre Heep "Gods" band.

>Box has probably seen
>enough bad shit happen to his old mates to keep him on the straight and narrow.

yeah, but still there's nothing else than pure happiness in the Box
character, when he playing guitar on stage...


>> > Another rocker's death is the Felix Pappalardi Incident. The bass
player of Mountain was shot to death 1983 by his wife Gail Collins (the
Mountain cover artist) during a ordinary "house fuzz".
>> >
>Was it '83? I though it was a lot more recent than that, like the early '90's.

I may be a year wrong or two, but not more.

\\joe