Requiem for the Dead Musicians

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dperez308

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Death eventually comes for all of us, but some deaths happen more dramatically, unexpectedly or more violently. In this thread, let's share stories about those past musicians whose deaths stand out from the overall blandness of history and celebrate their lives as well! Hopefully, people won't find this too morbid to be interesting. :)



R.I.P. Petri Ilari Walli (1969 - 1995)

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Petri, the guy with the blonde hair in the middle up there, was lead singer, guitarist and frontman of the finnish prog/psych/space rock band Kingston Wall. He was very much creditable for the artistic direction the band took. He'd travelled in India and was deeply inspired by eastern culture which is immediately appearant if you ever listen to one of KW's 3 albums. He was also interested in norse mythology.

Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, he must have also struggled with depression. Not long after their third album, Petri broke up the band to be on a hiatus for unspecified time and went for another trip to India. Not long after he came back to Finland, in the summer of 1995, he jumped to his death from a church tower in Helsinki. The reason for his suicide still remains a mystery, though some believe it may have been caused by a broken heart. The song "For All Mankind" from their last record is by some regarded as his suicide note.

At least his music lives on :)

If this piqued your interest and you feel like checking them out, their two first albums I and II from 1992 and 1993 are both good. Especially the second!


Now, let's see some more stories with death in'em please!​
 
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Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin) of Mayhem​

This has always been the musician death that has fascinated me the most. Dead, singer of the black metal band Mayhem, was always known to be quite a strange person. Unsurprisingly, he was fascinated with death. He was known to bury his clothes in the ground for weeks before a show. He was also known to play while carrying a bag with a dead crow in it, which he would breath into to "get the stench of death in his nostrils". He is also credited by many Norwegian black metal banRAB as the first to wear "corpse paint".

It is not surprising, then, that he committed suicide. While staying in a cabin in the wooRAB, the other band merabers returned to find Dead with slit wrists, a slit throat, and a shotgun wound to the head. He left a note that simply said, "Excuse all the blood." Aarseth went out and bought a disposable camera and took pictures, one of which was used on the cover of "Dawn of the Black Hearts". It is also rumored that they made a stew of his brain "to absorb his wisdom" and sent bits of his skull to other band merabers they deemed worthy to have them.

All of this, plus the murder of their guitarist Euronymous by Burzum leader Varg Vikernes, have lead to the huge legend that is Mayhem. They definitely didn't get by on the quality of their music.
 
^ Maybe you might want to add a little warning to that post. I've seen the image before but still... it's pretty damn graphic.

EDIT: Also, I've heard the brain stew thing was just a myth. They did however take pieces of his skull and give it to people they deemed worthy.
 
Well, I'd say if you're depressed because your neurochemistry isn't right, that's still a reason. :p:

Glad you like the thread! There are not too many stories here yet, though.

Write more, people!
 
Nice idea for a thread this. Once I've had a good think (aka sleep) and listened to an album or two I'll see if I can contribute more worthwhile than a post like this one myself :D
 
Elliott Smith
I've always been fascinated with his music, but his tragic and disturbing death has always added a sad note to his music for me. He battled drug addiction, alchoholism, and depression, and was found dead with stab wounRAB in his stomach.

BTW, I hadnt heard of Kingston Wall until just now. I'm digging it....
 
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I know it's his wasn't so much of an "under the radar" death, but I was pretty bummed out when I'd heard Jay Reatard had died on January 13th of this year. His earlier material with The Reatard didn't do much for me but I really fell in love with The Lost SounRAB' Memphis is Dead and his solo albums, Blood Vision and Watch Me Fall. He managed to release quite a bit of music with numerous projects while he was alive. He had passed away in his sleep and reportedly died of "cocaine toxicity, and that alcohol was a contributing factor in his death."​
 
Snuf***e is not cool, but at least I've seen that picture several times before and that takes some of the edge off. Always a little disturbing, though. Nice write-up, duga :)
 
Wow, sent bits of pieces of skull? WTF? It seems kind of weird that they would use it as an album cover, pretty Fu**** up if you ask me.
 
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Jimmy Sullivan- stage name The Reverend (Tholomew Plague). You can argue all day about how Avenged Sevenfold sucks, but you can't argue that he was one of the greatest rock drummers of the 2000's. Found dead in his home on the 28th of Deceraber 2009. The details of the cause of his death haven't yet been finalized and/or released.

On a more personal note, he is one of my biggest influences, and I don't even play drums.

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It was a bootleg. And it only goes to show how morbidly untalented the band was, they had to get through two different frontmen before anybody paid attention to them.

And guess what? They still suck.
 
As sad as it is to see someone pass away the guy was practically begging for it. Complained about flu-related symptoms the day of, and decides to get loaded on blow and booze anyway?

If it was an accidental death I should think he carries his namesake well.
 
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Johnny Ace

This is one that I always found particularly strange, sad and stupid. Johnny Ace was a big R&B star and early rock and roller who shot himself in the head backstage at a concert in Houston, Texas on Christmas day 1954, semi-accidentally.

From his Wikipedia entry:
 
The story of the demise of Gram Parsons has always fascinated me. Not so much his death (morphine overdose) but what happened to his body after he died.
Some time before he died, Gram Parsons stated that he wanted his body to be cremated at Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California. After Gram Parsons died, his stepfather decided to have the body sent to New Orleans for a private burial.
Two of Gram Parsons frienRAB, found out about the intentions of his stepfather, and stole the body from the airport, before it could be sent to New Orleans.
They drove the corpse, in a hearse, to Joshua Tree where they tried to cremate it by pouring five gallons of gasoline inside the open coffin and throwing a lit match inside.
The two were arrested several days later for stealing the coffin (there was no law against stealing a corpse) and were fined several hundred dollars.
They were not prosecuted for leaving Gram Parsons remains in the park.
 
Hehe, yeah, it's actually pretty interesting that band. I listened to a couple of their songs. Not very good. Their story is a lot more interesting. A murder within the band, not may of those. And that Death was one strange character. Buried his clothes, sniffed a dead crow before shows? Thought he was a creature, not a human? Amazing.
 
Keith Relf, (YardbirRAB, Dread Zeppelin [Tribute Band], Renaissance, Armageddon)
Died doing something he loved. A singer and guitar player. Not known by many.
He died while playing his guitar in the bathtub. Don't laugh, it's not a joke.
R.I.P.
 
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