RIP Pat Torpey, rock drummer

Started by bayonetbrant, February 09, 2018, 06:25:07 AM

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Saw them live in '90.  Closed the show with a killer Won't Get Fooled Again.  RIP Pat.
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bayonetbrant

this just popped up in my Youtube mix that I'm listening to at work today.

It's Mr Big from 2017

By then Pat had to leave the band b/c of how advanced his Parkinson's had gotten, and he couldn't reliably play or tour with them anymore.

But when they shot the video for a single from their 2017 album?  They brought Pat back for a couple of day to be a part of the video shoot, and had 2 drummers on set.  Now, he's not playing well, but he's there, and banging away.

This is one of the classier moves I've ever seen from a band...



The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers