My Mother was a bartender, worked at the same bar for many years. During the daytime hours Older retirees would come to the bar for some lunch and a drink or a beer! This was very common. It's hard not to get to know all these regulars who come in every week or some every day. One day, one of the regulars came in had a cold cut sandwich, and a beer. Most of them would only have one drink, talk with there friends or us then leave. He was sitting there and he put his head down and died right there. It was so very sad, but one of his buddies said, at least he went doing something he loved to do. He was much older, wife had passed, kids lived far away. He didn't like the loneliness. For all of us, we were shocked but glad he was with people, instead of being alone!
Phillips Wynne former lead singer of the 70’s soul group, The Spinners. He was lead singer on songs like ‘Rubberband Man’ and ‘Mighty Love’. In 1984 while performing solo at a club in Oakland, California he suffered a heart attack and died a few hours later. He was only 43.
Tiny Tim had done a venue in Toledo Ohio in the early '80s at the Ottawa tavern on Bancroft Street, after the show was over he actually came to my sister's house in the West end off of Upton Avenue. He was actually a really nice person and he even sang tiptoe through the tulips for us all. May you rest in peace. 🙏
all Herbert ever wanted was to be a musician. he rocketed into the limelight with tiptoe and shortly after plunged into obscurity. but the thing I love best about him is it didn’t make him bitter, he just kept plugging along, playing county fairs, Elk lodges and the like, and maintaining his sweet, gentle persona.
Jamel… I’ve never been at an event where a performer has died suddenly but I have been present when an athlete has suffered a career ending injury to their neck or back, which then confines them to a wheelchair for life. It’s happened twice. The stunned silence from the crowd, once they realise what is happening is absolutely heartbreaking.
Yeah, I was at a high school football game where that happened once, neck injury 🙁 Also had a neighbor that dived into an above-ground pool in his yard, broke his back.
Until the ground/stadium announcer tells us what’s going on, it’s hard to know exactly what’s happening but when you see a doctor & some paramedics run onto the field with a stretcher or on the medi-cab… That’s DEFINITELY not a good sign 😖👎
@@ecbst6 Freshman year in high school, a classmate, also a freshman, was playing with the varsity team got hit and was paralyzed from the neck down. It was terrifying to watch LifeFlight land in our little field. He was in a chair the rest of high school and in a halo for at least a year or two. He is still in a chair, but has become an accomplished estate attorney who I implicitly trust. After all, who else would know better.
I remember seeing an accident of this sort live on TV. 1995 Rugby World Cup, a player from Cote d'Ivoire was left permanently paralysed below the neck after a maul collapsed with him underneath it.
RIP Tommy Cooper. His acts are worthy of a reaction..! He was a genius magician that would perform his tricks in a manner so poorly that it was brilliant. He was an excellent comedic performer and a member of the infamous Magic Circle.
@@bwilson5401 Me too. We all thought..what a weird end to his routine. They went immediately to a commercial break, (Live At The Palladium) and although Bob Monkhouse was visibly shaken, they went on with the show. It was only whilst watching the ITV news which followed did they announce Cooper was dead.
He went to America one year (dunno which year) to do his act and a set producer or wotever pulled him aside during the commercials and told Tommy his magic tricks were not working lololol. They seemed to have no idea he was a comedian who uses failed magic tricks as his routine.
In the 1970s, my uncle Woody was in high school band. They had worked for weeks on trying to get this one note right in a Bach piece. The night of the concert, they finally hit the note. Their director, Carl Barnett, smiled, and then dropped dead of a heart attack. The name of the piece? "Come, Sweet Death."
I met Col. Bruce Hampton back when we were label mates on Ropeadope Records in 2014 - I went to say hi to him back stage after a show in Toronto where I live, and he was honestly one of the nicest, kindest and gentle human beings I've ever met. Dearly missed by so many people.
That was a crazy night Hampton 70. I rented a room to Col. Bruce in the late 90’s and shared the bill with him many times over the years. He was a magical force to everyone he met. RIP Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret.
Yes, I was at a Symphony and a Violinist collapsed on stage. Doctors were in the audience, but to no avail, his wife was a violinist also, and she was there on stage with him. They stopped the concert, and later in the year had a memorial concert in his honor.
Love pantera..they loved my fave band RUSH ❤ at 49 I survived a heart attack .two urgent operations..two stences and 24 hrs laterr an open heart surgery to replace major heart valve..I can't get over why me to live on..I don't know now why .other than to .love and respect life and to all....including nature..and my love of music..especially Rush music.gid bless Neil..and the bros of pantera. They're here in spirit 🙌
Country musician Jake Flint was married last Saturday. He went to sleep & never woke up. He was only 37 years old. What a tragedy 😢 That's unimaginable, I can't imagine the pain, his family is going through. 💔 Thanks Jamel good reporting as usual.
Darrell and Vinny from Pantera are from my neck of the woods. I am very close to an unknown family member. I was very lucky because Pantera played at my high school dances this was before they were famous.
sorta unrelated but got me thinking. . .I saw legendary Al Jarreau when he came to Skokie, IL 1st week of March 2016. He was very slow moving, needing a cane and performed seated quite a bit. Still sounded great and we had a nice evening, but I left the venue thinking how lucky I was to see him and how hard he worked, travelling the country to support the entire crew and to entertain the fans while obviously hurting and not in the best of health. It hit me hard to learn that he passed away less than a year later. Life is short. Tell the people you care about that you love them. . . .
Definately! I will always be grateful to a friend named Kerry who told me he always told his dad he loved him, so he didn't feel huge guilt or regret when his dad died, or at least not over that 1 thing. So I started doing the same, every day, and my dad died knowing he was loved. I'm just so grateful for that! Tell your loved ones what they mean to you, every chance you get. ❤❤❤
This didn't happen at a concert or music festival & it didn't involve a celebrity or professional musician. When I was a little kid (1970's), we had a local family owned pizza restaurant that featured live music. The owners of the pizza joint also had a family band that performed on weekends. The father was lead guitar, his wife on keyboards, & their 2 (adult) kids played bass (younger boy) & drums (oldest son). My mom would take me there often because she & her friends could go for the live music & not have to get babysitters because it was a family place. So kids ate while listening to the music, then we'd go to the game room to shoot pool or play arcade games while they watched the rest of the night's show. One evening, as the band finished a song & was about to start another, I remember hearing a slight crashing noise on stage. I looked up from the pizza on my plate just as the guitar player was toppling backwards into the drums. At first it looked like he tripped on something behind him. He fell down & then just slumped over... dead. He didn't say anything or make any sort of noise; just took a few stumbling backwards steps, lands on his bottom, & flops over like a fish. Of course I didn't see anything else after that because others immediately surrounded him & our parents told us kids to go to the game room until it was time to leave. I saw the ambulance pulling away as we walked out to the car. I heard later that the father had a massive heart attack which basically killed him on the spot before the EMT's got there. This was a small town so the response time was just a few minutes. I was about 7 or 8 yrs old and that is only surviving memory I have of the place, even though I know we went there many other times before. A short while later, the wife sold the business & it eventually became a national chain like Pizza Hut or Round Table. I don't know what became of her after the place closed down. I still remember the original name of the place before it changed - The Gazebo.
I knew Col. Bruce Hampton. He used to kneel and bow, to other musicians, "I'm not worthy" Everyone thought he was goofing.. Everyone there was there to celebrate his 70th birthday. The man died doing what he loved.
Talking about avant-garde stuff... Hampton was able to bring that in a small but rather significant way to Billy Bob Thornton's film Sling Blade from 1996. He basically played himself as Morris, the songwriter of the antagonist Doyle's band - he quoted/performed the lyrics to a song that he was currently writing, "The Thrill": "I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!" One of the weirdest yet most memorable scenes in a movie I've seen.
He was the guardian of "yet" undiscovered talent. From Derek Trucks and the Burbridge brothers, O'Tiel and Kofie to Jimmy Herring, Tyler Greenwell and on and on. R.I.P. Col. Bruce.
This made me think of Jackie Wilson. He didn’t actually die in front of the audience, but he had a massive heart attack on stage and the audience thought it was a part of the act so nobody helped him for a while. He did live for several years after that but never performed again. 😢
Wilson was one of my favorite performers, and I remember when this happened. Wilson lapsed into a coma and entered a vegetative state after his heart attack. He never woke up.
Such a sad story. I'm glad Elvis was there for Jackie's family, paying his medical bills so that hardship wouldn't fall on them. Even after Elvis died, his estate continued to pay the ongoing bills because they knew it had been important to Elvis. That was a true friendship.💙
That immediately came to my mind too. I read in the newspaper the next day that it happened when he was singing the line in "Lonely Teardrops", "my heart is crying, crying" and he clutched his heart and fell to the floor writhing in pain. That's why everyone thought it was part of the act and hesitated to help him. I don't know if it's true but that's how it was widely reported at the time.
I read in a book written by one of Elvis' guys that Jackie ate salt so he would sweat because women in the audiance liked it. I don't know if it's true. He was singing Lonely Teardrops when he collapsed.
Tommy Cooper was a very famous and popular British comedian/magician with his own TV show and despite being an accomplished magician his act consisted of him getting the tricks wrong (his TV show also included comedy sketches) I remember watching the live variety show (which also featured american singers Howard Keel and Donny Osmond) on a Sunday night on ITV when I was 19 at first I thought it was part of the act until we went to an unexpected ad break.
In 2005 I worked a concert (security) where I was just at the front steps during a concert with Suicidal Tendencies & Megadeth in Dallas. It was either very early 2005, or could’ve been December 2004, Dimebag Darrell had just been killed, but Pantera and King Diamond came to the Bronco bowl and we didn’t let any fans back stage, because they were there to mourn Dimebag with friends. It was just sitting in stadium seating in a really somber mood, a lot of tears and stories. It was really sad.
He didn't die but in 2004 David Bowie had a heart attack while performing . He tried to finish but had to cut his performance short and was taken to the hospital. There are videos out there and he looked terribly sick and in pain. He apologized to the crowd and said he was in too much pain to continue. That was pretty much the end of his touring career ( His choice).
I’m surprised the band Great White didn’t make the list. In 2003, the pyrotechnics in their show started a club fire that killed 100 people, including one of the band members. The video of it is terrifying to see just how quickly the fire spread and engulfed the entire club.
Yes…..that video of the Great White fire is so hard to watch! Terrifying! I was an avid concert goer and a press photographer at some shows so it hit close to home.
Not mentioned was Country Dick Montana, singer and drummer of San Diego based Beat Farmers. He died of either a heart attack or aneurysm on stage in a venue in British Columbia in 1995. I saw them perform several times in Seattle. Rest in Peace, Dick.
I worked at a radio station in North Platte, Nebraska in 1990-91 and Tiny Tim performed in town at Nebraskaland Days as part of a nostalgia caravan that included Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees, Mike Pinero of Iron Butterfly and Sheb Wooley. Mr. Tim was the nicest man you would ever meet. So polite and just a joy to talk to. Very interesting as well. I still have that cassette of my interview with him somewhere.
It wasn't on a public stage, but we were having a jam at my buddy's house. He was playing drums. We just finished playing Sympathy For The Devil and were all just talking and joking with each other when he fell off his drum stool and had a massive heart attack right at my feet. We called 911 and did CPR but it didn't work. It's a horrible memory I'll never forget. Going from playing music and having fun one second and someone dying the other second.
Thank you, Jamel for the background information regarding the Rock’s wife being the daughter of the Boston drummer, especially the fact that he named his other daughter after Steely Dan’s AJA album; I love it when artists appreciate other genres, collaborate, or in this case honor. If I were only able to listen to one band/artist/genre for the rest of my life (God forbid) it would no doubt be Steely Dan ❤
Oh man Steely Dan is high, high on my favorite bands list too!! So many great songs….. Favorite Album: Gaucho Favorite Song: Time Out of Mind RIP Walter Becker! 🪦 💔
Imagine being trapped in room with Bohemian Rhapsody playing forever? To me even 1 listen is hell, and I hated it even before it became so disgustingly overplayed. Tne attitude of American radio stations is sick. I used to love radio, but now I can't find a single station with a good rock program, even just for an hour a week! You would think we are just as deserving as the fans of country, classical, or that dreaded and horrible pop music! Pop has always been the antithesis of real music, yet it's everywhere! Is that shit really what people listen to now? Have they lost their fucking minds?! Well, I guess the answer to that is obvious.
I can think of a couple. One that was shown on the news and still haunts me to this day was the death of high wire artist Karl Wallenda in Puerto Rico in 1978. The other that comes to mind is Michael Been, the lead singer and bassist for The Call. Though he died during a performance, he wasn't the one performing when he died. He died in 2010 in Belgium while his son's group, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, was performing. Been was acting as his son's sound man when he died of a heart attack.
@allisonreed7682 I'm old enough to remember Karl Wallenda's family (The Flying Wallendas) having a tragic accident before that, in 1962. They were in Detroit, performing a 7 man pyramid without a net & they fell, killing 2 of them & leaving 1 paralyzed & others injured. I was just a little girl but I remember it being all over the news. It was one of the worst circus accidents ever. I don't know how Karl & other members of the family kept performing after that but they did. I guess it was just in their blood.
@@deborahcornell171 oh my goodness, that’s awful! Well it definitely must be in their blood because Karl’s great-grandson is Nik Wallenda, a high wire artist who’s had several live TV specials showing him performing similar stunts without a net. After watching Karl fall, I’ll never be able to bring myself to watch Nik.
Mark Sandman is sorely missed. I was lucky enough to see him/them a year before he passed. Time for you to check out a Morphine song. Maybe 'Honey White'? Such a unique sound.
I grew up in Atlanta going to see Col. Bruce Hampton and Aquarium Rescue Unit regularly. They were and remain the greatest band you’ve never heard. Jamel, you should honor all the artists by reacting to their music! Oteil Burbridge from Dead And Company was their bass player! I was so bummed to have not been able to attend the Colonel’s 70th Birthday Gala, but man, am I ever glad I didn’t. I wouldn’t want to have seen that live. He was such a massive influence on me, and to see him collapse like that and then never get up would have been just horrible. Crazy stage antics like that we’re not out of the ordinary for the Colonel. He was truly a One-In-A-Trillion kind of cat.
a year or two before the Col. died I had a long discussion with Tyler Greenwell of Tedeschi Trucks band. I told Tyler I had been to every single DerekTrucks performance in the San Francisco bay area from his very first show opening for Steve Kimock and Zero. With his band, Soul Stew Revival, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers Band and Eric Clapton. I have been to every show he's played..... even went on Jam Cruise 5 because he headlined and flew to Red Rocks in 2013 for a show. I asked Tyler where he came from musically. He told me Col. Bruce and went into a long discussion. The admiration for the man was undeniable. Tyler wasnt allowed a high hat or cymbals, just a kick snare and one tom until as Tyler put it "I was able to play" then the Col. said he could have a full kick set. A strict but fair mentor teacher and friend. I walked away feeling as if I knew the Col. after talking with Tyler for a couple of hours.
My son is 36 now, but he was into the WWF back then, and we were watching on pay per view that night when Owen Hart was performing. They did cut it off, but we heard the announcers say that it was not scripted. That was sad.
There was a case in 1918 of Chung Ling Soo (unfortunately, a white Englishman in yellowface) dying while attempting the Bullet Catch magic trick on stage. ETA: Ugh that last case -- reminded me that Leslie Harvey died from electrocution during a blues show in the 70's.
Morphine was an amazing band. Maybe my favorite of the 90's. You need to check them out. 2 string bass, baritone sax and drums. That's it, and it's a truly unique sound.
Mark’s voice was awesome too. Have you ever checked out A. K. A. C. O. D. ? Kind of a Morphine spin-off with Dana Colley and a female singer. They’re excellent. I particularly like their cover of the Fleetwood Mac song Hypnotized.
I don't comment much but thank you for this little lesson. I never knew there were so many that passed away in front of their fans. I knew who dimebag and Owen were/are as I listened to Pantera and was an avid WWE watcher and knew of their passing in front of the fans but wow so many others.
A friend of mine was the guitar tech for Jimmy Herring, who was the guitar player for Col. Bruce Hampton. I was supposed to go to that show, but didnt make it....Bruce was a really great person.
Jimmy is amazing. There are no words for his ability. I've seen him sitting in with the Derek Trucks Band in San Francisco, playing with WSP. and a few others. I know he plays customized guitars and amps and would LOVE to know how to duplicate that sound.
So I met Yuriy Shishkov a guitar builder who was close friends with Darrell...... and built his guitars, he cried when he told me about how great of a guy DimeBag was!!
I saw Frank Sinatra in concert in 1994 in Richmond Va. He was half way through the concert sounding great and he suddenly passed out and fell face first on stage and laid there not moving for 15 min, doctors in the audience jumped on stage to assist him. After a while he was put into a wheelchair and left for the hospital. He was up late the night before drinking in the hotel bar and was taking a medicine that caused the incident according to news reports.
Different type of performance ... 1972 the USAF Thunderbirds were doing their demonstration at Transpo '72 at Dulles Airport in VA (near DC) . As they came out of a loop for a slow speed pass across the viewing area there was a loud pop. My dad was next to me and immediately set "Oh no! Engine flame out." The team continue just after passing the end of the spectators all pulled up and immediately we watch three climb high and the one with engine failure fell behind - purposely with a lower climb angle. He was using what was left of his speed to gain any altitude. Just as the plane stalled he punched out ... ejection timing seemed perfect.crowd cheered up seeing the ejection and parachute open ... Plane quickly started rolling over as it dropped almost straight down. It exploded into a huge fireball. Then we watched helplessly as the pilot floating towards the ground was pulled towards the burning wreckage. The show was stopped immediately and everyone left as it was the last event of the day. On the way home there was a news announcement that the pilot had passed away. Nothing else was said. My dad was a Colonel stationed at the Pentagon at the time, he came home the next day ... the parachute had melted causing it to collapse due to the extreme heat of the fire. The fire and then impact with the ground was more than the pilot could survive. To this day I can close my eyes ... replay the ejection and the huge fireball ... certain moments in life you can see forever.
Jerry "The King" Lawler suffered a heart attack while broadcasting on Monday Night Raw. Fortunately, he was revived during the show, after being hauled off by emergency personnel. His cohort, Michael Cole, did his best to keep the home audience informed on Jerry's condition, but it was made clear that it wasn't part of the show. Lawler later stated that he had died twice during that event, but was successfully brought back both times.
They left out a truly important artist at the forefront of early Rock n' Roll, Funk, and Soul. The great Johnny Guitar Watson collapsed and died on stage in Japan. One can make a strong case that his 1954 "Space Guitar" was the first Rock record.
I haven't been at an event where anyone died, but I have seen bull riding wrecks where I was really worried that the riders may be dead or very seriously injured. The worst was in Kansas City when Mike White was thrown onto the dirt on his head and broke his neck. He not only survived with no serious after effects but was back riding for a few more years before retiring and becoming one of the safety men who lassos the bulls in the arena when a rider is down. A few years ago a young rider (Mason Lowe from Missouri) was killed in the arena when his bull stepped on his chest, and one of my favorite riders was supposed to be the next to get on his bull. He was so shaken that he couldn't do it; the whole "show must go on" thing didn't set well with him, so he did what is called "turning out." They get fined for that, but 1) when a bull rider doesn't have his mind in the game, it becomes more dangerous than normal; and 2) he literally had just watched his friend die 20 feet away, so he and the other riders (and fans, bull fighters, contractors, and other personnel) as well as Mason's wife of only 7 months, were in shock and grieving.
Guitarist and co-founder of the band, Stone The Crows, Les Harvey was electrocuted onstage in front of a live audience in 1972. "Wires to the group's equipment were reportedly damaged by the audience and although the road crew attempted to repair the damage, they overlooked a loose ground wire. Harvey received a jolt of electricity as he reached for a microphone while his fingers touched the metal strings on his guitar. His body reportedly flew into the air and came to rest with his guitar in contact with the microphone stand. Bandmates who tried to rescue him reportedly got shocked themselves and it wasn't until someone kicked his guitar away that medical personnel were able to render aid. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.". Robin Trower's bass player and vocalist, James Dewar, was a member of Stone The Crows back when that happened.
British comedian, Syd James, died on stage during a small play in Brighton. He was the major star of the "Carry On" movies and others during the sixties and seventies and also starred in some comedy series.
Hashian sister was my teacher in my Middle School-we met ALL these guys In BOSTON in 1977-1978- Miss Hashian brought them all to our little town north of Boston I remember her well!!!
From jazz annals..famed trumpeter Lee Morgan of Sidewinder and Rumproller fame, amongst other hits..got smoked on stage at Slug's (no pun intended) by his common-law wife as she put a 'slug or two' in Lee and he succumbed shortly thereafter..RIP Lee..
Curtis Mayfield August 13th 1990. I was a cop at the time, working his concert at Wingate Field, Brooklyn, NY. That incident was horrible. Felt so bad for him. It was an unbelievablely beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. He walked on stage and not ten minutes later, a massive wind storm came out of nowhere. I was standing next to the stage, when the lighting equipment fell onto the stage and on top of Curtis. I was kneeling next to him when he said “I can't feel my legs”. We got the metal structure off him. I loosened the top buttons on his shirt and he told me he couldn't move his hands either😢. He was paralyzed from the neck down ever since. And, he died at the young age of 57 from diabetes the day after Christmas 😩. That same incident, they had these huge, maybe eight foot tall, inflated Coors Light cans. They both broke loose. One struck a kid and knocked him out. The other shot into the sky like a rocket. I didnt see it happen, but its my belief that one of those had struck the stage, causing the collapse of the lighting. The official cause was the wind.
Sugar land was doing, or just beginning to do, an outdoor concert. There had been concern about wind, but iirc, the wind gusted really high. The stage collapsed. People were injured and died. I didn’t even know about it until long after it happened.
Actors Albert Brooks & Super Dave Osborne were brothers (Super Dave passed in 2019). Their Father was a Comedian, He went by the stage name Parkyakarkus. in 1958 During a Friars Club Roast of Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz he collapsed and died on stage, Milton Berle went to his side, and then turned to the audience and asked "Is there a doctor in the house " The audience reacted as if he were joking. He was not. But then Berle and another comedian did their comedy acts as eulogies at the funeral. This really angered the brothers they were 11 and 16 at the time. Their real last names is Einstein.
Not sure if you've reacted to any Morphine on the channel, but if not... get on that, my brother!! AMAZING music that sounds so full even though it's just a bass, drums, and saxophone. Quality, quality, QUALOTY stuff. I'd start with any of these.... Buena Thursday All Wrong (MAYBE the greatest sax solo ever!) Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer
I'd love to see you react to some Morphine, bro. I got into them around 94 or 95. Always dug their music and style. Give them a shot man. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. RIP Mark Sandman
One of the best! If you want to check out their sound, watch the film Two Days In The Valley. Shout out to Dana Volley the bari sax player from Morphine, an acquaintance from my days in the industry.
So good! Personally, I would say react to Buena! Mark sandman's voice just drips. And, that bass. With the sax, they set the mood... I saw them at Tramps in NYC...
Tuts Washington, a legendary New Orleans pianist, gave a performance at the Worlds Fair in 1984. At the end of a number, he slumped over the piano and passed away.
Closest I've ever been to someone dying was a volunteer shift to do inventory. We were all wondering where buddy went and found him dead in the warehouse at the other end of the building. They think it was a massive coronary because the head wound he got falling didn't bleed much. He was middle aged, smoked, drank, and may have had a high risk lifestyle. Ever since then m the company has 2 AED units and offers free CPR training every year for anyone interested.
I was watching that PPV with my boyfriend and his best friend when Owen Hart died. They didn't show the fall and went on with the show but announced later that he was pronounced dead at the hospital. I am shocked they didn't include Christina Grimmie that was killed by a shooter during the autograph session after her concert right in front of her fans.
Les Harvey, a very famous guitarist from the Scottish Blues Rock band "Stone the Crows", was electrocuted & killed on stage in front of a packed audience as the band was beginning their performance in 1972. There was a loose ground wire connected to their equipment that sent him flying thru the air & killed him as he reached for a mic & had his fingers on his guitar's metal strings. He died instantly. Very very sad.😢
What happened to Barbara Weldens, who sang barefoot and was electrocuted, is so dramatic. There is a young singer who has been singing barefoot since she was 7 years old, Angelina Jordan Astar. She does this to keep a promise she made at the age of six to another child of the same age. Now, at the age of 16, she has been keeping that commitment ever since. Inside or outside, rain or shine. This is very honorable, it deserves respect, but I have always thought it was very dangerous.
There have been several touring musicians, mostly guitar players, killed by electrical issues like completing the circuits from bad grounds, or their amp's polarity being reversed by accident (or forgetting to switch it over), and touching the mic or something and being electrocuted, and dying instantly.
@@honorsilverthorne7227 Yeah, he touched a stair railing leading up to the stage and completed the circuit. KISS became one of the first to start using wireless units for guitars immediately afterwards. Ace played the rest of the night unable to feel his left hand. Now that's impressive!
Well Commander you just "learnt" me something I didn't know about Mr. Hashian whom I saw with what was supposed to be The Cars opening, but they hit it big and went out on their own. Bought 2 shirts that show, 1 bootleg and 1 licensed ..... the bootleg one was cooler but damn did that shirt suck!
It’s a lot different but me and my brother were shot in 1984 ! I was 22 he was 26 ! I was shot 3 times and obviously survived my brother was shot 8 times and died in my arms ! In broad daylight with my mom across the street and his children seen the whole thing ! I had a second attempt on my life a year later ! To explain what I experienced in words would be impossible ! The craziest thing is because coincidentally some people we didn’t get along with were killed shortly after my brother and I were shot I became a villain and was harassed by police for years to come ! Sorry sometimes it’s easier to let things out this way ! I sum it up with 3 words LIFE IS HARD….
Not music related, but I do dirt racing photography on weekends. I'm an avid racing fan. Last summer we witnessed a 17-year-old kid burn to death inside his race car. I didn't sleep that much that night after the incident and it's still hard to talk about.
I was at a flat-track motorcycle race in 2009 when one racer took the checkered flag, went down in turn one, and slid to turn two. He’d had a heart attack and died on the track.
First off welcome back AKA. I worked on a freight dock for many years and one night a forklift driver had a massive heart attack fell of his fork lift inside a trailer, was dead when he hit the floor. We did cpr till the ambulance got there to no avail. On a lighter note I have a reaction request for you..... I know you like Home Free, there is an all female A Capella group called Citizen Queen. They do a cover of Roberta Flack's Killing me softly that is off the hook.
I was there when Dimebag was killed. When the officer shot his killer a piece of buckshot hit me in the back just below my right shoulder blade. My back hasn't been the same since.
I was there as well and this is the first I've ever heard anything like that. I am even friends with Jim, the officer in question (I wasn't at the time, but became friends over the years)...and the official investigation says that 8 of the 9 pellets hit the killer right in the face, and the 9th went over his head and hit the dressing room wall (and I've seen the hole in the wall, although the building is no longer standing as of December 6th, 2021). Even missed the hostage. Nothing on the record says anyone else was hit by his shot.
Really love your sweatshirt,,love your content and your honest feelings about these poor musicians who passed too soon,,new sub. here the sweatshirt got me,,lol
I watched that footage of Tommy Cooper's heart attack while performing and it's hard to watch. The worst part about it is how the audience laughs as he falls over, cause they don't realize he's not just clowning around.
I know of a British actor sid james famous for carry on films (a film series spanning 4 decades the last one was made in the 90s) died in 1976 while doing a stage play and people thought it was he was acting but he had a heart attack similar to tommy cooper that got mentioned in the vid
Actor/comedian Dick Shaun dropped dead of a heart attack while doing a comedy show in LaJolla, California. Initially the audience thought it was part of the show and did not respond as he laid on the stage. After a couple of minutes responders tended to him but it was too late.
As a child I remember going to the circus and acrobatic brothers from Mexico were doing their performance when one of the brothers missed and came falling down into the seated audience, never knew a person sounded so loud as they hit the ground, and was surprised to learn that they truly were risking their lives.
Greg Page - the original Yellow Wiggle from the children's band the Wiggles (started out as a rock band called the Cockroaches) had a heart attack after a concert but luckily an off-duty nurse in the audience was able to apply CPR which help save his life.
I'll forget the night Owen died. My friend and I were watching the Over The Edge PPV at his house. The PPV showed the crowd and Jim Ross announced what happened and we were in shock. The shock grew even worse when we found out he didn't survive. Shock for the rest of the night and questions like, "Why are they still going on with the show?" Terrible night.
Col. Bruce Hampton always said he'd probably die on stage. He was the godfather of the jam band. That was Oteil Burbride from Dead & Co. playing bass during that show. He died during the encore playing a Grateful Dead song.
I didn't think Tommy Cooper would've been mentioned here but I was watching that with my Dad when that happened. Remember it well because people were laughing at it, as the voiceover said, mistaking it for a part of the act, such was his capacity for spontaneous and random humour.
I was devastated to hear about Sib Hashian's death. I became friends with him before he was in the band Boston. But I moved out of the area we lived in (the North Shore area of Boston) and lost touch with him in the 80's. I was upset that I didn't hear about his death until after his wake.
I’m delighted to say that the worst I’ve ever seen in a performance was when the microphone malfunctioned. I’m fine not seeing someone’s tragedy in real time.
Bruce Hampton died on stage during his 70th birthday celebration. He had a massive heart attack during a portion of the show were he would fake death to be revived by the music. This time he wasn't revived. Surrounded by musicians he influenced celebrating his life.
Tragic. Once I saw someone collapse when I was performing and die. It was at a wedding and the groom just dropped, and was dead before he hit the floor. He died of an aneurysm called the "widowmaker" - when the aorta rips open and death is instant. Very sad.
Two others that didn't get mentioned - English comedy actor Sid James, part of the "Carry On" comedy film team, died on stage from a heart attack while performing a play in 1976, aged 63. Also, African jazz/rock fusion percussionist and drummer Rebop Kwaku Baah died on stage from a stroke in 1983 - aged just 38.
Tommy Cooper is the one I remember. It was live on the telly and as a comedian everyone thought it was part of the show and everyone was laughing as he was dying. I think he would have been happy with that happening though, making everyone laugh right until the end.
As I've taken a break from the internet for awhile. I'm glad to see you your the firest channel I ever subscribed to . I remember when dimebag dave was shot . I didn't know the rocks was his daughter. Thanks for the reaction as always love ya Sir. Have an amazing day ✌
Thanks for this great video. I met Tiny Tim on a flight to LA where he sat right in front of me along with you guessed it, his favorite musical piece tucked neatly in his case. He was real friendly as talked briefly about his career.
Ace Frehley was shocked really badly while coming down the staircase at the beginning of a show. He wasn’t killed but he was injured and could not feel his hands during the show.
I thought the title was going to be performers who "forgot the words" or "sang off key" or "kept lip syncing when the record started skipping" or "went into a crazy rant / fit and ended the show early"... I didn't know it was going to be LITERAL... wow.. RIP everyone... especially Dime and Vinnie and the poor woman who got electrocuted
as I clicked on this video I was thinking, “I haven’t seen him in a while, maybe I should subscribe.” turns out I had *already* subscribed, but the YouToobs algorithm didn’t see fit to show me any of your vids in quite some time. I enjoy your honest and mostly gentle takes on things. hopefully watching this vid will make the algorithm pay more attention in the future.
The Cooper one is pretty chilling to me. It's one of the videos that's kind of burned into my memory. A cute girl comes up to help him button up his robe. He has his arms spread out and has a kind of gleeish look on his face, playing up the bit. Suddenly, he starts to stagger and his facial expression changes to worry. The crowd starts laughing, thinking it's a bit. He staggers a bit. More laughing. He then collapses into an awkward seated position. The crowd by this time is laughing more than ever. He starts to let out some gurgling groaning noises. It's the kind of sound I've heard end-of-life care givers describe their patients having right near the end. He continues making these noises for a bit as he reaches his arms out toward the audience in an attempt for someone to help him. The crowd is in hysterics. They are absolutely losing their minds at the "bit". Cooper slouches over in an extremely awkward stance. His arms are propped up and his head looks like it's in the middle of his chest. He's heaving and clearly only semi-conscious. The crowd is now starting to laugh a little nervously. This act has now gone on a good 20 seconds or so. Suddenly, Cooper falls backward so only his legs are sticking out from the stage curtains. Again, the crowd erupts into laughter. They were a bit nervous but are back in it. Meanwhile, you still hear him gurgling and heaving for breath. This goes on for a bit and the crowd eventually realizes something is wrong. And all the while, there Cooper lays, his legs and feet out of the curtains while you see his stomach, draped by the curtains, heaving up and down but a little less each time. Eventually, someone pulls the now motionless (and it turns out lifeless) body all the way through the curtains. This guy died on the stage watching, and then hearing, an entire room of people laugh at him as he expired.
The Tommy Cooper collapse actually happened live on primetime tv. Back in the day when live tv was actually live and there was no delay. I was sat at home watching it when it happened. The audience and people at home thought it was part of the act and you could hear the audience laughing when he suddenly collapsed. This lasted for a few seconds or more before the curtain was pulled down and a commercial break suddenly appeared. Was a shock when everyone found out what happened next day. Even the people performing and stage hands thought it was all an act. Poor guy died and everyone was laughing. But being a very funny guy I think he would have wanted it that way. RIP Tommy.
One of my daughters and her friend were at Col. Bruce Hampton's last show at the Fox. They had become close as they worked in management for a local hall Bruce played at a lot in Macon, Ga. They were supposed to get together with him after the show. Never happened... Sadder than most folks can image, but he went out playing with friends, at a celebration for him while on stage and it was quick.
I've never seen a musician die on stage. But I've attended the public memorials of a few. John Lennon (I was a child, went with my parents), Kurt Cobain (I was in College in WA at the time) and Jerry Garcia (I had just moved to Hawaii and spent all my remaining $$ to fly to San Francisco to attend). Kurt's was by far, the saddest. I remember hearing the news about Morphine, what a shame... They were among my favorite bands in high school and College. So many of my favorite rock gods have passed in especially tragic circumstances over the years, that it has become almost expected. I was friends with Demri Parrott in school and knew Layne Staley as a result, in the nineties. Super sweet, if troubled, couple. Demri was also an awesome talent, in her own right. Chris Cornell died on my birthday. It's all become almost par for the course, sadly... May they all Pest In Peace. 🌬🙏⌛>🤘
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My Mother was a bartender, worked at the same bar for many years. During the daytime hours Older retirees would come to the bar for some lunch and a drink or a beer! This was very common. It's hard not to get to know all these regulars who come in every week or some every day. One day, one of the regulars came in had a cold cut sandwich, and a beer. Most of them would only have one drink, talk with there friends or us then leave. He was sitting there and he put his head down and died right there. It was so very sad, but one of his buddies said, at least he went doing something he loved to do. He was much older, wife had passed, kids lived far away. He didn't like the loneliness. For all of us, we were shocked but glad he was with people, instead of being alone!
That’s not the worst way to go- honestly
There are worse things than dying.
Phillips Wynne former lead singer of the 70’s soul group, The Spinners. He was lead singer on songs like ‘Rubberband Man’ and ‘Mighty Love’. In 1984 while performing solo at a club in Oakland, California he suffered a heart attack and died a few hours later. He was only 43.
Yes ,Philippe Wynne should have been mentioned. Jamel really liked his performance of Rubberband Man live on The Midnight Special.
Tiny Tim had done a venue in Toledo Ohio in the early '80s at the Ottawa tavern on Bancroft Street, after the show was over he actually came to my sister's house in the West end off of Upton Avenue.
He was actually a really nice person and he even sang tiptoe through the tulips for us all.
May you rest in peace. 🙏
his best song in my opinion is Strawberry tea
He was sweet. I met him on a flight many years ago
all Herbert ever wanted was to be a musician. he rocketed into the limelight with tiptoe and shortly after plunged into obscurity. but the thing I love best about him is it didn’t make him bitter, he just kept plugging along, playing county fairs, Elk lodges and the like, and maintaining his sweet, gentle persona.
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My husband knew him well. He speaks very highly of him.
Jamel… I’ve never been at an event where a performer has died suddenly but I have been present when an athlete has suffered a career ending injury to their neck or back, which then confines them to a wheelchair for life. It’s happened twice. The stunned silence from the crowd, once they realise what is happening is absolutely heartbreaking.
Yeah, I was at a high school football game where that happened once, neck injury 🙁
Also had a neighbor that dived into an above-ground pool in his yard, broke his back.
Until the ground/stadium announcer tells us what’s going on, it’s hard to know exactly what’s happening but when you see a doctor & some paramedics run onto the field with a stretcher or on the medi-cab… That’s DEFINITELY not a good sign 😖👎
@@ecbst6 Freshman year in high school, a classmate, also a freshman, was playing with the varsity team got hit and was paralyzed from the neck down. It was terrifying to watch LifeFlight land in our little field. He was in a chair the rest of high school and in a halo for at least a year or two. He is still in a chair, but has become an accomplished estate attorney who I implicitly trust. After all, who else would know better.
I remember seeing an accident of this sort live on TV. 1995 Rugby World Cup, a player from Cote d'Ivoire was left permanently paralysed below the neck after a maul collapsed with him underneath it.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 … That’s precisely what I mean. When you see someone’s livelihood being taken away in the blink of an eye, it’s horrifying.
RIP Tommy Cooper. His acts are worthy of a reaction..! He was a genius magician that would perform his tricks in a manner so poorly that it was brilliant. He was an excellent comedic performer and a member of the infamous Magic Circle.
I remember watching that show at 13.Everybody thought it was part of the act.Id like to think that he wanted to go out on a laugh.
@@bwilson5401 Me too. We all thought..what a weird end to his routine. They went immediately to a commercial break, (Live At The Palladium) and although Bob Monkhouse was visibly shaken, they went on with the show. It was only whilst watching the ITV news which followed did they announce Cooper was dead.
Total genius.
He went to America one year (dunno which year) to do his act and a set producer or wotever pulled him aside during the commercials and told Tommy his magic tricks were not working lololol. They seemed to have no idea he was a comedian who uses failed magic tricks as his routine.
I know who you're talking about, it happened on camera, didn't it?
In the 1970s, my uncle Woody was in high school band. They had worked for weeks on trying to get this one note right in a Bach piece. The night of the concert, they finally hit the note. Their director, Carl Barnett, smiled, and then dropped dead of a heart attack. The name of the piece? "Come, Sweet Death."
The irony of your post! But, when it's your time to go, doesn't matter where you are or what you're doing.
In 1991, Redd Foxx (famous as Fred Sanford from Sanford and Son) had a fatal heart attack on the set of his new sitcom, The Royal Family.
I didn't know that or had forgotten. Redd Foxx was brilliant in Sanford & Son. Always loved the Fred vs Aunt Esther verbal grudge matches.
I met Col. Bruce Hampton back when we were label mates on Ropeadope Records in 2014 - I went to say hi to him back stage after a show in Toronto where I live, and he was honestly one of the nicest, kindest and gentle human beings I've ever met. Dearly missed by so many people.
He was a local legend in Atlanta, seems to me like he was playing here somewhere all the time. 💕
I was lucky enough to see him live several times.
That was a crazy night Hampton 70. I rented a room to Col. Bruce in the late 90’s and shared the bill with him many times over the years. He was a magical force to everyone he met. RIP Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret.
Yes, I was at a Symphony and a Violinist collapsed on stage. Doctors were in the audience, but to no avail, his wife was a violinist also, and she was there on stage with him. They stopped the concert, and later in the year had a memorial concert in his honor.
Love pantera..they loved my fave band RUSH ❤ at 49 I survived a heart attack
.two urgent operations..two stences and 24 hrs laterr an open heart surgery to replace major heart valve..I can't get over why me to live on..I don't know now why .other than to .love and respect life and to all....including nature..and my love of music..especially Rush music.gid bless Neil..and the bros of pantera. They're here in spirit 🙌
Country musician Jake Flint was married last Saturday. He went to sleep & never woke up. He was only 37 years old. What a tragedy 😢 That's unimaginable, I can't imagine the pain, his family is going through. 💔 Thanks Jamel good reporting as usual.
So sad
Vaxxxxxx
Awful.
Something similar happened to an acquaintance of mine.
Hed lost a lot of weught,and, had gotten married,two weeks before he died in his sleep.
Darrell and Vinny from Pantera are from my neck of the woods. I am very close to an unknown family member.
I was very lucky because Pantera played at my high school dances this was before they were famous.
sorta unrelated but got me thinking. . .I saw legendary Al Jarreau when he came to Skokie, IL 1st week of March 2016.
He was very slow moving, needing a cane and performed seated quite a bit. Still sounded great and we had a nice evening, but I left the venue thinking how lucky I was to see him and how hard he worked, travelling the country to support the entire crew and to entertain the fans while obviously hurting and not in the best of health.
It hit me hard to learn that he passed away less than a year later.
Life is short. Tell the people you care about that you love them. . . .
Definately! I will always be grateful to a friend named Kerry who told me he always told his dad he loved him, so he didn't feel huge guilt or regret when his dad died, or at least not over that 1 thing. So I started doing the same, every day, and my dad died knowing he was loved. I'm just so grateful for that!
Tell your loved ones what they mean to you, every chance you get. ❤❤❤
This didn't happen at a concert or music festival & it didn't involve a celebrity or professional musician. When I was a little kid (1970's), we had a local family owned pizza restaurant that featured live music. The owners of the pizza joint also had a family band that performed on weekends. The father was lead guitar, his wife on keyboards, & their 2 (adult) kids played bass (younger boy) & drums (oldest son). My mom would take me there often because she & her friends could go for the live music & not have to get babysitters because it was a family place. So kids ate while listening to the music, then we'd go to the game room to shoot pool or play arcade games while they watched the rest of the night's show.
One evening, as the band finished a song & was about to start another, I remember hearing a slight crashing noise on stage. I looked up from the pizza on my plate just as the guitar player was toppling backwards into the drums. At first it looked like he tripped on something behind him. He fell down & then just slumped over... dead. He didn't say anything or make any sort of noise; just took a few stumbling backwards steps, lands on his bottom, & flops over like a fish. Of course I didn't see anything else after that because others immediately surrounded him & our parents told us kids to go to the game room until it was time to leave. I saw the ambulance pulling away as we walked out to the car. I heard later that the father had a massive heart attack which basically killed him on the spot before the EMT's got there. This was a small town so the response time was just a few minutes.
I was about 7 or 8 yrs old and that is only surviving memory I have of the place, even though I know we went there many other times before. A short while later, the wife sold the business & it eventually became a national chain like Pizza Hut or Round Table. I don't know what became of her after the place closed down. I still remember the original name of the place before it changed - The Gazebo.
I knew Col. Bruce Hampton.
He used to kneel and bow, to other musicians, "I'm not worthy"
Everyone thought he was goofing..
Everyone there was there to celebrate his 70th birthday.
The man died doing what he loved.
Talking about avant-garde stuff... Hampton was able to bring that in a small but rather significant way to Billy Bob Thornton's film Sling Blade from 1996. He basically played himself as Morris, the songwriter of the antagonist Doyle's band - he quoted/performed the lyrics to a song that he was currently writing, "The Thrill":
"I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!"
One of the weirdest yet most memorable scenes in a movie I've seen.
So glad I was able to see the Bruce Hampton several times in his later years. An under appreciated genius.
I was there that night, 7th row stage right...... RIP Bruce
He was the guardian of "yet" undiscovered talent. From Derek Trucks and the Burbridge brothers, O'Tiel and Kofie to Jimmy Herring, Tyler Greenwell and on and on. R.I.P. Col. Bruce.
This made me think of Jackie Wilson. He didn’t actually die in front of the audience, but he had a massive heart attack on stage and the audience thought it was a part of the act so nobody helped him for a while. He did live for several years after that but never performed again. 😢
Wilson was one of my favorite performers, and I remember when this happened. Wilson lapsed into a coma and entered a vegetative state after his heart attack. He never woke up.
Such a sad story. I'm glad Elvis was there for Jackie's family, paying his medical bills so that hardship wouldn't fall on them. Even after Elvis died, his estate continued to pay the ongoing bills because they knew it had been important to Elvis. That was a true friendship.💙
That immediately came to my mind too. I read in the newspaper the next day that it happened when he was singing the line in "Lonely Teardrops", "my heart is crying, crying" and he clutched his heart and fell to the floor writhing in pain. That's why everyone thought it was part of the act and hesitated to help him. I don't know if it's true but that's how it was widely reported at the time.
I read in a book written by one of Elvis' guys that Jackie ate salt so he would sweat because women in the audiance liked it. I don't know if it's true. He was singing Lonely Teardrops when he collapsed.
@@ptournas I think Dick Clark was in the audience. He recounted the story in I video I saw on TH-cam.
Tommy Cooper was a very famous and popular British comedian/magician with his own TV show and despite being an accomplished magician his act consisted of him getting the tricks wrong (his TV show also included comedy sketches) I remember watching the live variety show (which also featured american singers Howard Keel and Donny Osmond) on a Sunday night on ITV when I was 19 at first I thought it was part of the act until we went to an unexpected ad break.
I remember that night well, awful. But he died on stage to the sound of laughter, which is what he would have wanted. A fitting end to such a legend
I remember that too
I saw this on tv, a programme called 'live from Her Majesty's . My mother said to me the sound he made was the death rattle.
@@Lloyd1885 I think a lot of people thought he had pretended to faint because of the sexy magicians assistant that came on stage.
I was watching too, such a shock when the reason for the sudden commercial break was announced. A very funny man I loved his TV show.
In 2005 I worked a concert (security) where I was just at the front steps during a concert with Suicidal Tendencies & Megadeth in Dallas. It was either very early 2005, or could’ve been December 2004, Dimebag Darrell had just been killed, but Pantera and King Diamond came to the Bronco bowl and we didn’t let any fans back stage, because they were there to mourn Dimebag with friends. It was just sitting in stadium seating in a really somber mood, a lot of tears and stories. It was really sad.
He didn't die but in 2004 David Bowie had a heart attack while performing . He tried to finish but had to cut his performance short and was taken to the hospital. There are videos out there and he looked terribly sick and in pain. He apologized to the crowd and said he was in too much pain to continue. That was pretty much the end of his touring career ( His choice).
I’m surprised the band Great White didn’t make the list. In 2003, the pyrotechnics in their show started a club fire that killed 100 people, including one of the band members. The video of it is terrifying to see just how quickly the fire spread and engulfed the entire club.
Yes…..that video of the Great White fire is so hard to watch! Terrifying! I was an avid concert goer and a press photographer at some shows so it hit close to home.
@@acp6350White Snake great band
@@journeybrook9357 Great White, not White Snake.
A friend of mine lost her brother in that fire. She's still hasn't gotten over it. I don't think you ever do.@@acp6350
@acp6350 knowing what happened I could not watch any video.
Not mentioned was Country Dick Montana, singer and drummer of San Diego based Beat Farmers. He died of either a heart attack or aneurysm on stage in a venue in British Columbia in 1995. I saw them perform several times in Seattle. Rest in Peace, Dick.
Mojo Nixon did a tribute song for Country Dick, "The Ballad of Country Dick".
Morphine was an alternative group from the late 80’s. Their music had an experimental yet jazzy sound. Check out the song “You look like rain”
I think that would be one heck of a way to go, doing exactly what you love! ❤️
I worked at a radio station in North Platte, Nebraska in 1990-91 and Tiny Tim performed in town at Nebraskaland Days as part of a nostalgia caravan that included Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees, Mike Pinero of Iron Butterfly and Sheb Wooley.
Mr. Tim was the nicest man you would ever meet.
So polite and just a joy to talk to. Very interesting as well.
I still have that cassette of my interview with him somewhere.
Ok wierd seeing someone else from North Platte.
It wasn't on a public stage, but we were having a jam at my buddy's house. He was playing drums. We just finished playing Sympathy For The Devil and were all just talking and joking with each other when he fell off his drum stool and had a massive heart attack right at my feet. We called 911 and did CPR but it didn't work. It's a horrible memory I'll never forget. Going from playing music and having fun one second and someone dying the other second.
Thank you, Jamel for the background information regarding the Rock’s wife being the daughter of the Boston drummer, especially the fact that he named his other daughter after Steely Dan’s AJA album; I love it when artists appreciate other genres, collaborate, or in this case honor. If I were only able to listen to one band/artist/genre for the rest of my life (God forbid) it would no doubt be Steely Dan ❤
Oh man Steely Dan is high, high on my favorite bands list too!! So many great songs…..
Favorite Album: Gaucho
Favorite Song: Time Out of Mind
RIP Walter Becker! 🪦 💔
Steely dan was rock just like Boston not really hard rock but Donald Fagen did a song on the heavy metal song track with a very riffy intro
Imagine being trapped in room with Bohemian Rhapsody playing forever? To me even 1 listen is hell, and I hated it even before it became so disgustingly overplayed.
Tne attitude of American radio stations is sick. I used to love radio, but now I can't find a single station with a good rock program, even just for an hour a week! You would think we are just as deserving as the fans of country, classical, or that dreaded and horrible pop music!
Pop has always been the antithesis of real music, yet it's everywhere! Is that shit really what people listen to now? Have they lost their fucking minds?! Well, I guess the answer to that is obvious.
@@acm9711 I can not believe someone else in this world has the same favorite Steely Dan song as me. All I can say is you have great taste!
I can think of a couple. One that was shown on the news and still haunts me to this day was the death of high wire artist Karl Wallenda in Puerto Rico in 1978. The other that comes to mind is Michael Been, the lead singer and bassist for The Call. Though he died during a performance, he wasn't the one performing when he died. He died in 2010 in Belgium while his son's group, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, was performing. Been was acting as his son's sound man when he died of a heart attack.
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I'm old enough to remember Karl Wallenda's family (The Flying Wallendas) having a tragic accident before that, in 1962. They were in Detroit, performing a 7 man pyramid without a net & they fell, killing 2 of them & leaving 1 paralyzed & others injured. I was just a little girl but I remember it being all over the news. It was one of the worst circus accidents ever. I don't know how Karl & other members of the family kept performing after that but they did. I guess it was just in their blood.
@@deborahcornell171 oh my goodness, that’s awful! Well it definitely must be in their blood because Karl’s great-grandson is Nik Wallenda, a high wire artist who’s had several live TV specials showing him performing similar stunts without a net. After watching Karl fall, I’ll never be able to bring myself to watch Nik.
@@deborahcornell171 So true.. I remember it clearly too and the horror I felt as a child reading the newspaper accounts.
Morphine is amazing you should check out their music very cool sound with the baritone sax and Mark Sandman's voice.
Mark Sandman is sorely missed. I was lucky enough to see him/them a year before he passed. Time for you to check out a Morphine song. Maybe 'Honey White'? Such a unique sound.
Gee never knew that! We just don't know when our time is up, be ready with the Lord, Have a nice weekend Jamal 😆
I grew up in Atlanta going to see Col. Bruce Hampton and Aquarium Rescue Unit regularly. They were and remain the greatest band you’ve never heard. Jamel, you should honor all the artists by reacting to their music! Oteil Burbridge from Dead And Company was their bass player! I was so bummed to have not been able to attend the Colonel’s 70th Birthday Gala, but man, am I ever glad I didn’t. I wouldn’t want to have seen that live. He was such a massive influence on me, and to see him collapse like that and then never get up would have been just horrible. Crazy stage antics like that we’re not out of the ordinary for the Colonel. He was truly a One-In-A-Trillion kind of cat.
a year or two before the Col. died I had a long discussion with Tyler Greenwell of Tedeschi Trucks band. I told Tyler I had been to every single DerekTrucks performance in the San Francisco bay area from his very first show opening for Steve Kimock and Zero. With his band, Soul Stew Revival, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers Band and Eric Clapton. I have been to every show he's played..... even went on Jam Cruise 5 because he headlined and flew to Red Rocks in 2013 for a show. I asked Tyler where he came from musically. He told me Col. Bruce and went into a long discussion. The admiration for the man was undeniable. Tyler wasnt allowed a high hat or cymbals, just a kick snare and one tom until as Tyler put it "I was able to play" then the Col. said he could have a full kick set. A strict but fair mentor teacher and friend. I walked away feeling as if I knew the Col. after talking with Tyler for a couple of hours.
My son is 36 now, but he was into the WWF back then, and we were watching on pay per view that night when Owen Hart was performing. They did cut it off, but we heard the announcers say that it was not scripted. That was sad.
There was a case in 1918 of Chung Ling Soo (unfortunately, a white Englishman in yellowface) dying while attempting the Bullet Catch magic trick on stage.
ETA: Ugh that last case -- reminded me that Leslie Harvey died from electrocution during a blues show in the 70's.
Morphine was an amazing band. Maybe my favorite of the 90's. You need to check them out. 2 string bass, baritone sax and drums. That's it, and it's a truly unique sound.
early to bed, early to rise!
I will do that! It sounds very cool!
Mark’s voice was awesome too.
Have you ever checked out A. K. A. C. O. D. ? Kind of a Morphine spin-off with Dana Colley and a female singer.
They’re excellent. I particularly like their cover of the Fleetwood Mac song Hypnotized.
Miriam Makeba had a heart attack in Italy and died while preforming her international 1960's hit "Pata Pata"
I don't comment much but thank you for this little lesson. I never knew there were so many that passed away in front of their fans. I knew who dimebag and Owen were/are as I listened to Pantera and was an avid WWE watcher and knew of their passing in front of the fans but wow so many others.
A friend of mine was the guitar tech for Jimmy Herring, who was the guitar player for Col. Bruce Hampton. I was supposed to go to that show, but didnt make it....Bruce was a really great person.
Jimmy is amazing. There are no words for his ability. I've seen him sitting in with the Derek Trucks Band in San Francisco, playing with WSP. and a few others. I know he plays customized guitars and amps and would LOVE to know how to duplicate that sound.
Sad that they all died but they were doing what they loved.
So I met Yuriy Shishkov a guitar builder who was close friends with Darrell...... and built his guitars, he cried when he told me about how great of a guy DimeBag was!!
I saw Frank Sinatra in concert in 1994 in Richmond Va. He was half way through the concert sounding great and he suddenly passed out and fell face first on stage and laid there not moving for 15 min, doctors in the audience jumped on stage to assist him. After a while he was put into a wheelchair and left for the hospital. He was up late the night before drinking in the hotel bar and was taking a medicine that caused the incident according to news reports.
Different type of performance ... 1972 the USAF Thunderbirds were doing their demonstration at Transpo '72 at Dulles Airport in VA (near DC) . As they came out of a loop for a slow speed pass across the viewing area there was a loud pop. My dad was next to me and immediately set "Oh no! Engine flame out." The team continue just after passing the end of the spectators all pulled up and immediately we watch three climb high and the one with engine failure fell behind - purposely with a lower climb angle. He was using what was left of his speed to gain any altitude. Just as the plane stalled he punched out ... ejection timing seemed perfect.crowd cheered up seeing the ejection and parachute open ... Plane quickly started rolling over as it dropped almost straight down. It exploded into a huge fireball. Then we watched helplessly as the pilot floating towards the ground was pulled towards the burning wreckage. The show was stopped immediately and everyone left as it was the last event of the day. On the way home there was a news announcement that the pilot had passed away. Nothing else was said. My dad was a Colonel stationed at the Pentagon at the time, he came home the next day ... the parachute had melted causing it to collapse due to the extreme heat of the fire. The fire and then impact with the ground was more than the pilot could survive. To this day I can close my eyes ... replay the ejection and the huge fireball ... certain moments in life you can see forever.
Jerry "The King" Lawler suffered a heart attack while broadcasting on Monday Night Raw. Fortunately, he was revived during the show, after being hauled off by emergency personnel. His cohort, Michael Cole, did his best to keep the home audience informed on Jerry's condition, but it was made clear that it wasn't part of the show. Lawler later stated that he had died twice during that event, but was successfully brought back both times.
They left out a truly important artist at the forefront of early Rock n' Roll, Funk, and Soul. The great Johnny Guitar Watson collapsed and died on stage in Japan.
One can make a strong case that his 1954 "Space Guitar" was the first Rock record.
I haven't been at an event where anyone died, but I have seen bull riding wrecks where I was really worried that the riders may be dead or very seriously injured. The worst was in Kansas City when Mike White was thrown onto the dirt on his head and broke his neck. He not only survived with no serious after effects but was back riding for a few more years before retiring and becoming one of the safety men who lassos the bulls in the arena when a rider is down.
A few years ago a young rider (Mason Lowe from Missouri) was killed in the arena when his bull stepped on his chest, and one of my favorite riders was supposed to be the next to get on his bull. He was so shaken that he couldn't do it; the whole "show must go on" thing didn't set well with him, so he did what is called "turning out." They get fined for that, but 1) when a bull rider doesn't have his mind in the game, it becomes more dangerous than normal; and 2) he literally had just watched his friend die 20 feet away, so he and the other riders (and fans, bull fighters, contractors, and other personnel) as well as Mason's wife of only 7 months, were in shock and grieving.
Guitarist and co-founder of the band, Stone The Crows, Les Harvey was electrocuted onstage in front of a live audience in 1972. "Wires to the group's equipment were reportedly damaged by the audience and although the road crew attempted to repair the damage, they overlooked a loose ground wire. Harvey received a jolt of electricity as he reached for a microphone while his fingers touched the metal strings on his guitar. His body reportedly flew into the air and came to rest with his guitar in contact with the microphone stand. Bandmates who tried to rescue him reportedly got shocked themselves and it wasn't until someone kicked his guitar away that medical personnel were able to render aid. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.". Robin Trower's bass player and vocalist, James Dewar, was a member of Stone The Crows back when that happened.
British comedian, Syd James, died on stage during a small play in Brighton. He was the major star of the "Carry On" movies and others during the sixties and seventies and also starred in some comedy series.
Sid was actually South African, his real name was Solomon Cohen
Hashian sister was my teacher in my Middle School-we met ALL these guys In BOSTON in 1977-1978- Miss Hashian brought them all to our little town north of Boston I remember her well!!!
From jazz annals..famed trumpeter Lee Morgan of Sidewinder and Rumproller fame, amongst other hits..got smoked on stage at Slug's (no pun intended) by his common-law wife as she put a 'slug or two' in Lee and he succumbed shortly thereafter..RIP Lee..
Curtis Mayfield August 13th 1990. I was a cop at the time, working his concert at Wingate Field, Brooklyn, NY. That incident was horrible. Felt so bad for him. It was an unbelievablely beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. He walked on stage and not ten minutes later, a massive wind storm came out of nowhere. I was standing next to the stage, when the lighting equipment fell onto the stage and on top of Curtis. I was kneeling next to him when he said “I can't feel my legs”. We got the metal structure off him. I loosened the top buttons on his shirt and he told me he couldn't move his hands either😢. He was paralyzed from the neck down ever since. And, he died at the young age of 57 from diabetes the day after Christmas 😩. That same incident, they had these huge, maybe eight foot tall, inflated Coors Light cans. They both broke loose. One struck a kid and knocked him out. The other shot into the sky like a rocket. I didnt see it happen, but its my belief that one of those had struck the stage, causing the collapse of the lighting. The official cause was the wind.
Sugar land was doing, or just beginning to do, an outdoor concert. There had been concern about wind, but iirc, the wind gusted really high. The stage collapsed. People were injured and died.
I didn’t even know about it until long after it happened.
i had no idea curtis mayfield died like that!
@@ritab5153 ; Diabetes killed him😢. Were you thinking the accident killed him? He only lived nine years after the accident.
Actors Albert Brooks & Super Dave Osborne were brothers (Super Dave passed in 2019). Their Father was a Comedian, He went by the stage name Parkyakarkus. in 1958 During a Friars Club Roast of Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz he collapsed and died on stage, Milton Berle went to his side, and then turned to the audience and asked "Is there a doctor in the house " The audience reacted as if he were joking. He was not. But then Berle and another comedian did their comedy acts as eulogies at the funeral. This really angered the brothers they were 11 and 16 at the time. Their real last names is Einstein.
Not sure if you've reacted to any Morphine on the channel, but if not... get on that, my brother!! AMAZING music that sounds so full even though it's just a bass, drums, and saxophone.
Quality, quality, QUALOTY stuff.
I'd start with any of these....
Buena
Thursday
All Wrong (MAYBE the greatest sax solo ever!)
Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer
I'd love to see you react to some Morphine, bro. I got into them around 94 or 95. Always dug their music and style. Give them a shot man. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. RIP Mark Sandman
One of the best! If you want to check out their sound, watch the film Two Days In The Valley. Shout out to Dana Volley the bari sax player from Morphine, an acquaintance from my days in the industry.
So good! Personally, I would say react to Buena! Mark sandman's voice just drips. And, that bass. With the sax, they set the mood... I saw them at Tramps in NYC...
Tuts Washington, a legendary New Orleans pianist, gave a performance at the Worlds Fair in 1984. At the end of a number, he slumped over the piano and passed away.
Closest I've ever been to someone dying was a volunteer shift to do inventory. We were all wondering where buddy went and found him dead in the warehouse at the other end of the building. They think it was a massive coronary because the head wound he got falling didn't bleed much. He was middle aged, smoked, drank, and may have had a high risk lifestyle. Ever since then m the company has 2 AED units and offers free CPR training every year for anyone interested.
I was watching that PPV with my boyfriend and his best friend when Owen Hart died. They didn't show the fall and went on with the show but announced later that he was pronounced dead at the hospital. I am shocked they didn't include Christina Grimmie that was killed by a shooter during the autograph session after her concert right in front of her fans.
Les Harvey, a very famous guitarist from the Scottish Blues Rock band "Stone the Crows", was electrocuted & killed on stage in front of a packed audience as the band was beginning their performance in 1972. There was a loose ground wire connected to their equipment that sent him flying thru the air & killed him as he reached for a mic & had his fingers on his guitar's metal strings. He died instantly. Very very sad.😢
What happened to Barbara Weldens, who sang barefoot and was electrocuted, is so dramatic. There is a young singer who has been singing barefoot since she was 7 years old, Angelina Jordan Astar. She does this to keep a promise she made at the age of six to another child of the same age. Now, at the age of 16, she has been keeping that commitment ever since. Inside or outside, rain or shine. This is very honorable, it deserves respect, but I have always thought it was very dangerous.
There have been several touring musicians, mostly guitar players, killed by electrical issues like completing the circuits from bad grounds, or their amp's polarity being reversed by accident (or forgetting to switch it over), and touching the mic or something and being electrocuted, and dying instantly.
Ace Frehley of KISS was once electrocuted just before he walked on stage, but luckily someone noticed in time, and he survived.
@@honorsilverthorne7227 Yeah, he touched a stair railing leading up to the stage and completed the circuit. KISS became one of the first to start using wireless units for guitars immediately afterwards.
Ace played the rest of the night unable to feel his left hand. Now that's impressive!
Well Commander you just "learnt" me something I didn't know about Mr. Hashian whom I saw with what was supposed to be The Cars opening, but they hit it big and went out on their own. Bought 2 shirts that show, 1 bootleg and 1 licensed ..... the bootleg one was cooler but damn did that shirt suck!
It’s a lot different but me and my brother were shot in 1984 ! I was 22 he was 26 ! I was shot 3 times and obviously survived my brother was shot 8 times and died in my arms ! In broad daylight with my mom across the street and his children seen the whole thing ! I had a second attempt on my life a year later ! To explain what I experienced in words would be impossible ! The craziest thing is because coincidentally some people we didn’t get along with were killed shortly after my brother and I were shot I became a villain and was harassed by police for years to come ! Sorry sometimes it’s easier to let things out this way ! I sum it up with 3 words LIFE IS HARD….
🙏🙏🙏 for you.
Wow just wow so sorry
Prayers for you and also your brother. I’m so sorry! 🙏🙏🙏
@@cindylewwho Ty ❤️
So sorry to hear that 😞
Not music related, but I do dirt racing photography on weekends. I'm an avid racing fan. Last summer we witnessed a 17-year-old kid burn to death inside his race car. I didn't sleep that much that night after the incident and it's still hard to talk about.
So sorry.
I was at a flat-track motorcycle race in 2009 when one racer took the checkered flag, went down in turn one, and slid to turn two. He’d had a heart attack and died on the track.
First off welcome back AKA. I worked on a freight dock for many years and one night a forklift driver had a massive heart attack fell of his fork lift inside a trailer, was dead when he hit the floor. We did cpr till the ambulance got there to no avail. On a lighter note I have a reaction request for you..... I know you like Home Free, there is an all female A Capella group called Citizen Queen. They do a cover of Roberta Flack's Killing me softly that is off the hook.
I was there when Dimebag was killed. When the officer shot his killer a piece of buckshot hit me in the back just below my right shoulder blade. My back hasn't been the same since.
I was there as well and this is the first I've ever heard anything like that. I am even friends with Jim, the officer in question (I wasn't at the time, but became friends over the years)...and the official investigation says that 8 of the 9 pellets hit the killer right in the face, and the 9th went over his head and hit the dressing room wall (and I've seen the hole in the wall, although the building is no longer standing as of December 6th, 2021). Even missed the hostage. Nothing on the record says anyone else was hit by his shot.
Really love your sweatshirt,,love your content and your honest feelings about these poor musicians who passed too soon,,new sub. here the sweatshirt got me,,lol
That rock and roll can be exhausting. 🙏☮️💖
Love that you have the same RUSH poster on your wall that I do !!!! When I saw that , I had to subscribe for sure !!! Great job on your videos !!
I was at a New York Giants game where the guy had a heart attack and died near me in the stands. He was actually a former Dallas Cowboy
I got into an elevator with Tiny Tim and he was wearing a Warner Brothers cartoon themed suit and was just so humble and sweet. ❤️
I watched that footage of Tommy Cooper's heart attack while performing and it's hard to watch. The worst part about it is how the audience laughs as he falls over, cause they don't realize he's not just clowning around.
I know of a British actor sid james famous for carry on films (a film series spanning 4 decades the last one was made in the 90s) died in 1976 while doing a stage play and people thought it was he was acting but he had a heart attack similar to tommy cooper that got mentioned in the vid
Actor/comedian Dick Shaun dropped dead of a heart attack while doing a comedy show in LaJolla, California. Initially the audience thought it was part of the show and did not respond as he laid on the stage. After a couple of minutes responders tended to him but it was too late.
As a child I remember going to the circus and acrobatic brothers from Mexico were doing their performance when one of the brothers missed and came falling down into the seated audience, never knew a person sounded so loud as they hit the ground, and was surprised to learn that they truly were risking their lives.
Greg Page - the original Yellow Wiggle from the children's band the Wiggles (started out as a rock band called the Cockroaches) had a heart attack after a concert but luckily an off-duty nurse in the audience was able to apply CPR which help save his life.
The cockroaches were brilliant , still my face Aussie band
@@jasondilworth2767 Can Remember seeing them supporting Mental As Anything in a concert at the old ANU refectory in Canberra back in the mid '80s
I'll forget the night Owen died. My friend and I were watching the Over The Edge PPV at his house. The PPV showed the crowd and Jim Ross announced what happened and we were in shock. The shock grew even worse when we found out he didn't survive. Shock for the rest of the night and questions like, "Why are they still going on with the show?" Terrible night.
It's what he would have wanted, they knew.
I was watching it as well before going into work that night….It sure changed my mood that whole night…. It freaking sucked when he passed
Vince McMahon is an uncaring piece of shit.
Wrestling works just like the circus. The show must go on.
Seems to me that something like that would be rather difficult to forget.
Col. Bruce Hampton always said he'd probably die on stage. He was the godfather of the jam band. That was Oteil Burbride from Dead & Co. playing bass during that show. He died during the encore playing a Grateful Dead song.
ASHLEE SIMPSON died on live TV on SNL. So tough to watch.
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I didn't think Tommy Cooper would've been mentioned here but I was watching that with my Dad when that happened. Remember it well because people were laughing at it, as the voiceover said, mistaking it for a part of the act, such was his capacity for spontaneous and random humour.
Thank you for this video. I had no idea some of these people died. Now im gonna have to gp back and watch their videos to rememeber them. ❤
I was devastated to hear about Sib Hashian's death. I became friends with him before he was in the band Boston. But I moved out of the area we lived in (the North Shore area of Boston) and lost touch with him in the 80's. I was upset that I didn't hear about his death until after his wake.
I’m delighted to say that the worst I’ve ever seen in a performance was when the microphone malfunctioned. I’m fine not seeing someone’s tragedy in real time.
Bruce Hampton died on stage during his 70th birthday celebration. He had a massive heart attack during a portion of the show were he would fake death to be revived by the music. This time he wasn't revived. Surrounded by musicians he influenced celebrating his life.
Tragic. Once I saw someone collapse when I was performing and die. It was at a wedding and the groom just dropped, and was dead before he hit the floor. He died of an aneurysm called the "widowmaker" - when the aorta rips open and death is instant. Very sad.
Two others that didn't get mentioned - English comedy actor Sid James, part of the "Carry On" comedy film team, died on stage from a heart attack while performing a play in 1976, aged 63. Also, African jazz/rock fusion percussionist and drummer Rebop Kwaku Baah died on stage from a stroke in 1983 - aged just 38.
Yes, I was just gonna mention Sid James
Tommy Cooper is the one I remember. It was live on the telly and as a comedian everyone thought it was part of the show and everyone was laughing as he was dying. I think he would have been happy with that happening though, making everyone laugh right until the end.
As I've taken a break from the internet for awhile. I'm glad to see you your the firest channel I ever subscribed to . I remember when dimebag dave was shot . I didn't know the rocks was his daughter. Thanks for the reaction as always love ya Sir. Have an amazing day ✌
Thanks for this great video. I met Tiny Tim on a flight to LA where he sat right in front of me along with you guessed it, his favorite musical piece tucked neatly in his case. He was real friendly as talked briefly about his career.
Ace Frehley was shocked really badly while coming down the staircase at the beginning of a show. He wasn’t killed but he was injured and could not feel his hands during the show.
When I was very young back in the seventies, a player from the Detroit Lions actually had a heart attack while playing and died
I remember that. Been a Lions fan my whole life. The team never quite recovered from that, almost 50 years later. Ppppbbbttt
I believe that Tiny Tim had that happen. What a sad thing to witness, in all cases. 💔
I thought the title was going to be performers who "forgot the words" or "sang off key" or "kept lip syncing when the record started skipping" or "went into a crazy rant / fit and ended the show early"... I didn't know it was going to be LITERAL... wow.. RIP everyone... especially Dime and Vinnie and the poor woman who got electrocuted
as I clicked on this video I was thinking, “I haven’t seen him in a while, maybe I should subscribe.” turns out I had *already* subscribed, but the YouToobs algorithm didn’t see fit to show me any of your vids in quite some time.
I enjoy your honest and mostly gentle takes on things. hopefully watching this vid will make the algorithm pay more attention in the future.
The Cooper one is pretty chilling to me. It's one of the videos that's kind of burned into my memory.
A cute girl comes up to help him button up his robe. He has his arms spread out and has a kind of gleeish look on his face, playing up the bit. Suddenly, he starts to stagger and his facial expression changes to worry. The crowd starts laughing, thinking it's a bit. He staggers a bit. More laughing. He then collapses into an awkward seated position.
The crowd by this time is laughing more than ever. He starts to let out some gurgling groaning noises. It's the kind of sound I've heard end-of-life care givers describe their patients having right near the end. He continues making these noises for a bit as he reaches his arms out toward the audience in an attempt for someone to help him.
The crowd is in hysterics. They are absolutely losing their minds at the "bit".
Cooper slouches over in an extremely awkward stance. His arms are propped up and his head looks like it's in the middle of his chest. He's heaving and clearly only semi-conscious. The crowd is now starting to laugh a little nervously. This act has now gone on a good 20 seconds or so.
Suddenly, Cooper falls backward so only his legs are sticking out from the stage curtains. Again, the crowd erupts into laughter. They were a bit nervous but are back in it. Meanwhile, you still hear him gurgling and heaving for breath.
This goes on for a bit and the crowd eventually realizes something is wrong. And all the while, there Cooper lays, his legs and feet out of the curtains while you see his stomach, draped by the curtains, heaving up and down but a little less each time.
Eventually, someone pulls the now motionless (and it turns out lifeless) body all the way through the curtains.
This guy died on the stage watching, and then hearing, an entire room of people laugh at him as he expired.
The Tommy Cooper collapse actually happened live on primetime tv. Back in the day when live tv was actually live and there was no delay. I was sat at home watching it when it happened. The audience and people at home thought it was part of the act and you could hear the audience laughing when he suddenly collapsed. This lasted for a few seconds or more before the curtain was pulled down and a commercial break suddenly appeared. Was a shock when everyone found out what happened next day. Even the people performing and stage hands thought it was all an act. Poor guy died and everyone was laughing. But being a very funny guy I think he would have wanted it that way. RIP Tommy.
There was a band called Stone The Crows in the late '60s whose guitarist, Les Harvey, was electrocuted and died onstage.
One of my daughters and her friend were at Col. Bruce Hampton's last show at the Fox. They had become close as they worked in management for a local hall Bruce played at a lot in Macon, Ga. They were supposed to get together with him after the show. Never happened... Sadder than most folks can image, but he went out playing with friends, at a celebration for him while on stage and it was quick.
How tragic and sad. Well they say they died doing what they enjoyed 😢
I've never seen a musician die on stage. But I've attended the public memorials of a few. John Lennon (I was a child, went with my parents), Kurt Cobain (I was in College in WA at the time) and Jerry Garcia (I had just moved to Hawaii and spent all my remaining $$ to fly to San Francisco to attend). Kurt's was by far, the saddest. I remember hearing the news about Morphine, what a shame... They were among my favorite bands in high school and College. So many of my favorite rock gods have passed in especially tragic circumstances over the years, that it has become almost expected. I was friends with Demri Parrott in school and knew Layne Staley as a result, in the nineties. Super sweet, if troubled, couple. Demri was also an awesome talent, in her own right. Chris Cornell died on my birthday. It's all become almost par for the course, sadly...
May they all Pest In Peace.
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Jamaica I love your humanity, you have a good soul always a pleasure to watch you x
About 11 years ago I was in a bar with some friends, and the guy singing Karaoke suddenly had a heart attack and fell down dead right on stage.