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guitarist Bernie Torme with Ozzy Osbourne

guitarist Bernie Torme with Ozzy Osbourne

Rock Star Death Notices - April 2019
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RIP This Month:

Mark Hollis (Talk Talk), Doug Sandom (original Who drummer), Stephan Ellis (Survivor), Keith Flint (Prodigy), Mike Grose (Queen’s first bassist), Hal Blaine (legendary drummer), Bernie Torme (Ozzy/Gillan guitarist), Christopher W. Fox (Madison drummer), Ranking Roger (English Beat), all three members of duo HER, Nipsy Hussle and more

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Madison's Jimmie Hill RIP

Madison's Jimmie Hill RIP

Rock Star Death Notices - March 2019
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RIP This Month:

This month: Jim Dunlop Sr. (Dunlop), Cadet, Harvey Scales (Milw), Eric Traub, Kofi Burbridge (Tedeschi Trucks Band), Jimmie Hill (Madison), Peter Tork (the Monkees), Andy Anderson (the Cure), and more

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Michael Ledbetter

Michael Ledbetter

Rock Star Death Notices - February 2019
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RIP This Month: Nate Applewhite (Magic Slim), Dean Ford (Alan Parsons), Alan Pearlman (ARP Synthesizers), Lorna Doom (The Germs), Ron Watson (Helix), Ted McKenna (Michael Schenker), Michael Ledbetter (Chicago Blues), Clive Stevens (Manfred Mann), Bruce Corbit (Rigor Mortis), Paul Whaley (Blue Cheer), and many others.

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Indonesia's Seventeen - all but the singer perished in the Tsunami of December 2018

Indonesia's Seventeen - all but the singer perished in the Tsunami of December 2018

Rock Star Death Notices - January 2019
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RIP This Month: Cecil Taylor (jazz pioneer), Calvin Newborn (jazz legend), Pete Shelly (The Buzzcocks), Ray “Eye Patch” Sawyer (Dr. Hook), Daryl “the Captain” Dragon (Captain & Tenille), members of Seventeen (died from Tsunami)... and more.

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Blues Hall of Fame inductee Jody Williams

Blues Hall of Fame inductee Jody Williams

Rock Star Death Notices - December 2018
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RIP This Month: Hugh McDowell (ELO), Trevor McNaughton (Melodians), Skip Van Winkle, Jody Williams (Blues Hall of Fame inductee)

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Anna Snopek

Anna Snopek

Rock Star Death Notices - November 2018
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RIP This Month:

This Month: Al Rubin (Madison), Crystal Berenek (Madison), Al Simones, Geoff Emerick, Don Dexter, Anna Snopek (Milwaukee), Takehisa, Dominick “Randy” Safuto, Oli Herbert (All That Remains), Jon James McMurray, Tony Joe White, Wah Wah Watson, Sonny Fortune, Young Greatness, Jimmy Farrar (Molly Hatchet)

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Otis Rush

Otis Rush

Rock Star Death Notices - October 2018
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This Month’s RIPs: Irvin “Carrot” Jarrett (Third World), David “Nicci Wikkid” Hussman (Slave Raider), Conway Savage (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), Luisa Mann Buoni (Milwaukee), Max Bennett (Frank Zappa), Martin Allcock (Jethro Tull), Hardy Fox (Residents), Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane), Otis Rush, Peggy Sue, and more

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Mike Stoiber playing with the Casual Tease circa mid 80's

Mike Stoiber playing with the Casual Tease circa mid 80's

Rockstar Death Notices - September 2018
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RIP This Month:

RIP This month: Mike Stoiber (Milwaukee), Aretha Franklin, Ed King (Lynryd Skynyrd, Strawberry Alarm Clock) and more

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Madison's own Derek Brady

Madison's own Derek Brady

Rock Star Death Notices - August 2018
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RIP This Month:

This Month: Dr. Philip Tarbane, Derek Brady (Madison), Tab Hunter, and more

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Woody Davis of Madison's The Faith Hills Have Eyes

Woody Davis of Madison's The Faith Hills Have Eyes

Rockstar Death Notices - July 2018
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RIP This Month:

Erica Eide (Madison, Handphibians), Eddy “the Chief” Clearwater (blues legend), DJ Fontana (Elvis), Woody Davis (Madison, The Faith Hills Have Eyes), Vinnie Paul (Pantera, Damageplan, Helly Yeah), and more!

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Big Al Byla pictured at left with 70's Piper Road Spring Band

Big Al Byla pictured at left with 70's Piper Road Spring Band

Rock Star Death Notices - June 2018
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RIP This Month:

This Month: Big Al Byla (Piper Road Spring Band), Jabo Starks(James Brown drummer), Stuart ‘Stu Boy’ King, Steve Coy (Dead Or Alive), Tony Kinman, Ben Graves, Scott Hutchinson, strong>Glenn Branca, Carl Schwartz, Reggie Lucas, Roger Clark

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Madison's Marc Treyhey drummer of Wild Child, Dirty Deeds, Vinyl Thunder and more!

Madison's Marc Treyhey drummer of Wild Child, Dirty Deeds, Vinyl Thunder and more!

Rockstar Death Notices - May 2018
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RIP This Month:

This month: Madison’s Marc Trehey (Wild Child, Rattlebones, Dirty Deeds, Vinyl Thunder), Fraser Loveman (Canada’s second favourite male vocalist, behind only Leonard Cohen), Yvonne Staples (Stapler Singers), Deborah Coleman, Avicii , Kathleen “Kitten” Johnson (CYKA and Pharmacy), Charles Neville (Neville Brothers), Tim Calvert (Forbidden and Nevermore) and many more.

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Luke Jorgenson of the Lower 5th

Luke Jorgenson of the Lower 5th

Rockstar Death Notices - April 2018
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RIP This Month:

Madison’s Luke Jorgenson (Lower 5th),  Allah Real (Wu-Tang Clan), Jay Lengnick (Madcity Music Guide), Peter “Mars” Cowling (Pat Travers Band)

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MC Stormin

MC Stormin

Rockstar Death Notices - March 2018
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RIP This Month:

March 2018:  MC Stormin, La Crosse’s Jacque Durnford, Pat Torpey, John Perry Barlow, Johann Johannsson, and more!

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Holocaust Band Survivor Coco Schumann

Holocaust Band Survivor Coco Schumann

Rockstar Death Notices - February 2018
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RIP This Month:

Ray Thomas (Moody Blues), Antennae Jimmy Semens (Captain Beefheart), Fast Eddie Clark (Motörhead, Fastway), Jim Rodford (Argent), Coco Schumann (93 y/o Holocaust Band survivor)

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