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DECEMBER

DEAD F***ERS

The untimely December demise of these rock stars took the Merry out of Christmas; the Happy out of Hanukkah; and gave a creepy countdown to New Year’s Eve.

Meredith Hunter wasn’t even a rock star, just a drugged out 18 year old kid. In December of 1969 he waved a gun near the stage at the Altamont Free Concert and supposedly yelled threats at Mick Jagger. Bad move when concert security was a group of Hell’s Angels working for beer. Hunter was stabbed multiple times by a biker and died. Moral of the story….you decide. Was the biker an overly aggressive bully who killed a kid or a hero who may have saved Mick and who knows how many innocent bystanders?

The Late Great Johnny Ace, who was immortalized in a song by Paul Simon, was on the verge of becoming a major success when he played a concert in Houston on Christmas Eve. As the minutes ticked away into Christmas he went  backstage with friends, put a gun to his head, and said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s not loaded’. Which is how he came to  be ‘The ‘Late’ Great Johnny Ace’.

Tommy Bolin of The James Gang and Deep Purple was one of the hottest guitarist in rock and roll. And I  don’t just refer to his playing. On December 4, 1976, he died of an overdose after opening for Jeff Beck in Miami. My friend Ruby Cheeks was there to hear him play Post Toastee for the last time. Helluva song.

Hang on to your Mary’s Little Lamb Christmas stockings….more December Dead F***ers to come.

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What a bunch of Jive Turkeys. You won’t believe how these rock stars went out.

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Who embarrassed himself by being shot dead while standing naked in a motel lobby? None other than the late, great Sam Cooke. The man who charmed bobbysoxers out of their…socks?… got drunk, drove to a cheap motel with a hooker, was robbed by his ‘date’ who then called police to report that he had attempted to rape her, and then was shot dead by the motel clerk when he beat down the door looking for the woman who had escaped while he was in the bathroom. Sam arrived at the hotel in a Ferrari and wearing a designer suit. This is how he left.There are also pictures on the web of his dead body as he looked when police found him, but it was more of Sam Cooke than I think any of us want to see. Conspiracy theories regarding Sam’s death abound, some with a degree of believability. We’ll get to those another time. If you are up for a good swoon, here’s what the teeny-boppers were so excited about.  Feel like Twistin’ the Night Away? Click here.

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Rick Dey of the Wilde Knights wrote a hit song, sold the rights to Paul Revere and the Raiders and then, known for being the life of the party, he overdosed on nitrous oxide and literally died laughing. Here’s Rick’s contribution….the cheesiest song the Raiders ever recorded. In fact, the best thing about this song is that it’s less than two minutes long. Click here .

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Run over by a bulldozer? Helluva way for a rock star to go out, right? How about run over by a bulldozer HE was driving? Yeah. Jerome Smith, the guitarist who lit up K.C. and the Sunshine Band, having been banished due to his drug and alcohol problems turned to construction work to put food on the table. At age 47 Jerome fell out of the cab of his ride on a construction site and somehow managed to run over himself. For a fleeting glimpse of Jerome jamming with the band, click here. Hey, shut up. Stop laughing. The clothes were cool in those days, okay?

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And of course we all know about Sonny Bono. This is the tree. I will spare you the Sonny and Cher songs.  More to come.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM WATSON AND OAK

Watson’s Mom has been hitting the rock and roll cemeteries again to bring you the creepiest dead f****ers in honor of the most festive holiday of all…HALLOWEEN! Here are the creepiest, most bizarre dead rock stars I could dig up.

Graham Bond, of the Graham Bond Organisation and Holy Magick, was very much in to the occult, and believed himself to be the son of Black Magician Aleister Crowley. After bouts of depression and drug addiction, Bond died on May 8, 1974, under the wheels of a London train. Witnesses said it appeared    that ‘something’ had lifted him off the platform and thrown him under the train.

On September 6, 1978, Who drummer, Keith Moon, attended a premiere screening of The Buddy Holly Story and then overdosed on medication and died the next day, September 7, which is Buddy Holly’s birthday.

John Lennon was terrified to travel to the U.S. for the first tour in 1964 because of the recent assassination of John Kennedy. One of the first publicity photos of The Beatles on that tour was taken in Central Park, with The Dakota apartments in the background. In 1980 John was assassinated in front of The Dakota by a crazed fan.

Twenty-four years to the day after Lennon’s assassination, Dimebag Darrell of Pantera and Damageplan was assassinated on stage by a crazed fan.

Richey James Edwards, bassist for Manic Street Preachers, was supposed to fly to the U.S. from England for a promotional tour on February 1, 1995. He didn’t show. On February 17 his abandoned car was found, looking as if he had been living in it. In spite of ‘sightings’ all over the world, Richey is still among the missing, having disappeared without a trace.

Ritchie Valens had a fear of flying brought on by a freak accident at his Pacoima Junior High School when two airplanes collided over the playground, killing several of his friends. Despite recurring dreams of that event, Ritchie overcame his fear enough to fly to gigs, only to die in a plane crash.

Stevie Ray Vaughan‘s fear of flying led him to call his frequent flights ‘riding the Otis Redding express’. Stevie died in a helicopter crash after dreaming the night before of his own funeral.

Duane Allman and Berry Oakley of The Allman Brothers Band both died in motorcycle accidents, one year and thirteen days and three blocks apart. They were buried side by side in the cemetery where they wrote many of their songs.

On April 20, the long dead body of Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice In Chains, was found in his apartment amid copious drug paraphenalia. The Coroner fixed his date of death as April 5, eight years to the day after the demise of his fellow Seattle grunge singer, Kurt Cobain.

Philip Taylor Kramer was a bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly during the 1970s. He was also an aerospace engineer who worked on the MX missle guidance system and in the computer industry on facial recognition systems and advanced communications. On February 12, 1995 he left for LAX to pick up a client who didn’t show. Later he made several phone calls, one to Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy saying he would ‘see him on the other side’, and another to police saying ‘I want everyone to know that O.J. Simpson is innocent. They did it.’ He then seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth. Four years later his mini-van was found at the bottom of a cliff, his skeletal remains inside. There is still speculation over whether it was murder, suicide, or if ‘they’ got him.

On April 17, 1997 Eldon Hoke, aka El Duce, lead singer and drummer of the ‘rape rock’ band The Mentors, showed up at a friend’s house asking for fake ID. He claimed that he might end up buried in a cornfield or lost in a swamp because he knew who had really killed Kurt Cobain. Two days later, El Duce was ‘accidentally’ hit by a train and died.

On 30 December 1985, Rick Nelson finished performing in Guntersville, Alabama. He had played Holly’s “Rave On”, which Buddy had played in Clear Lake before boarding his fatal flight, as his encore and his last words to the audience were, “Rave on for me!” He then boarded his plane, which attempted an emergency landing and then burst into flames killing Rick and his band.

GG Allin was a punk star who was into self-mutilation, defecating on stage (and sometimes on the audience) and threatening to commit suicide onstage. When he finally went out from a drug overdose, it was at a party. Groupies, thinking that he had passed out, posed for photographs with the corpse before anyone realized that he was dead.

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM WATSON AND OAK