Terrible week for music, Toby and Janine

[RickP]

Two big icons in totally different styles of music are lost or hurting.

Toby Keith, country music star, proud cowboy and patriot, left us after a strong and valiant battle against cancer. As a cancer survivor myself, with family members both saved from and lost to this insidious blight on humanity, I can once again validate how much cancer does, indeed, suck. RIP, Toby… your fight is done here.

Steve Morse, monster guitarist of the Dixie Dregs and Deep Purple among others, lost his wife Janine after a long cancer fight. Steve left music to be with his wife during her treatment and periods of remission. If you play music and have a wife who supports you in the pursuit of your craft, comes out to shows, and participates in everything from load in, to set up, to merch sales, to tearing it all back down… not to mention being a great partner on all the non-gig days, then you have some concept of the loss this man is wrapping his head and heart around. I wish you all the best, Steve, as you go forward into a different life. Love never leaves.

 

[JasonE]

Cancer is quite possibly the most cruel illness that anyone can suffer from. I have lost family members to it. It truly sucks. I knew Toby was ill but didn't know the exact issue he had. I figured it was pretty serious since it stopped him from touring and recording. I have played a decent handful of his songs in bands over the years. I hadn't heard about Janine.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Not to mention losing Aston Barrett (Wailers) and Donald Kinsey (Peter Tosh).

But on the plus side Kerry King’s new solo album sounds promising.

 

[DISTORT6]

Wayne Kramer also passed this week.

 

[Daryl Jones]

So many gone and the numbers keep rising. Signs of inevitability, but too often they go before their time.
Live for today...yesterday is gone, and tomorrow may not ever come.
Peace all.

 

[bodia]

Man, so many......

 

[alantig]

Mojo Nixon.

 

[Greywolf]

My prayers go out to thier people .
I got to meet Toby back stage , he was very amiable and polite.

Cancer is voracious and never ending in its assault. I've been fighting it for over a decade , you beat it back and it laughs ..all the while the grains of sand keeping moving ever faster...

 

[DreamTheaterRules]

Mojo Nixon.

Didn't know that one. He was a frequent visitor on WEBN in Cincinnati years ago while Eddie Fingers was there.

 

[Daryl Jones]

Heard about Mojo from a friend of mine yesterday. I so enjoyed listening to his broadcasts. A very unique soul.

 

[Tom Bradovich]

Mojo Nixon.

I didn't know that. I'll miss his howling "I luuuuuv country" on the Sirius XM Outlaw Country station.

 

[Tom Bradovich]

Toby Keith, country music star, proud cowboy and patriot, left us after a strong and valiant battle against cancer.

Toby wore his patriotism on his sleeve and took some flak for it that IMO he should not have. A great song writer and performer. My wife's favorite country artist. Saw him at the MN State Fair years back.

 

[helmi]

Toby wore his patriotism on his sleeve and took some flak for it that IMO he should not have.

Ya, funny how that works. Springsteen, Green day, Jackson Browne, Mellencamp, and countless others can spew their views openly and without public pushback, but Toby took $hit for his patriotic opinions! R.I.P Toby.

 

[11top]

Steve Morse made a comment (paraphrasing) that his wife was stage 4, and they lived between MRIs with fingers crossed and prayers, terrified of what results the next would reveal. I empathize completely.

 

[Daryl Jones]

I don't think there are very many of us that haven't had a run-in with the horrors of cancer. Both sides of my family have far more that have fallen than have survived. It just sucks worse when someone gets struck down before they have fully lived.

 

[Bogner]

Ya, funny how that works. Springsteen, Green day, Jackson Browne, Mellencamp, and countless others can spew their views openly and without public pushback, but Toby took $hit for his patriotic opinions! R.I.P Toby.

The Anti-Patriotic People Can Kiss My Ass. If You Don't Like America Then GTFO. I Say This With A Warm, Kind Tone So As To Include Everyone.