yeah, i don’t want it to be suicide, either, because i know someone who killed himself, and decades on i’m still trying to understand it… and this is someone i knew quite well, and i never expected it. suicide is so horrible, and it leaves scars on those left behind that sometimes do not go away. i am not someone who suffers from depression, thankfully, and i know that he had his struggles, but i really hope that he wasn’t in such a dark place and nobody knew about it. i would prefer it to be a horrible accident, rather than a conscious decision.
EDIT: ugh, the prosecutor in france this morning confirmed that it was suicide by hanging. no other sign of foul play. they are now returning his body to his family. so senseless, so awful.
No, that’s just where my jet-lagged and very tired and angry brain went to when I saw ‘suicide by hanging’ on wikipedia. Because a senseless accident would be slightly easier to understand and accept than a deliberate, conscious act, you know?
Actually, I first heard of the band years and years ago, but they were a few years before my time – and I don’t think I would have liked them back then.
Listening to “Those Who Are About To Die Salute You” on YouTube.
They’ve been in the background, because they weren’t really about being big rock stars. They all started with the same bands (Mayall, Bond, Georgie Fame, Alexis Korner and so forth), pretty much splitting between (and fusing) jazz, blues and pop, they’re all pros to the fingertips, and they’re all now dropping like flies.
This seems appropriate. Of Colosseum II, the only one still alive is Don Airey. Hiseman, Gary Moore, John Mole, they’re a’ deid.
We were all supposed to be immortal (at least, that’s how it seems when you’re in your teens and twenties, as when I first encountered Colosseum and Colosseum II respectively).
Yeah, the skills of the group were really good. The guitarist here is the late Gary Moore, ex-Thin Lizzy, later with BBM (Bruce-Baker-Moore), mainly solo - to my mind a criminally underrated performer. His work with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker doing very Cream-like material led me to believe he may have been better than Clapton.
