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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: jadetree on July 21, 2003, 08:48:00 am
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sad story (until Guiny makes fun of it):
Exploding Hearts Lose Three Members in Crash
Matt LeMay & Nicholas B. Sylvester report:
At approximately six in the morning yesterday, Matthew "Matt Lock" Fitzgerald, Adam "Baby" Cox, and Jeremy "Kid Killer" Gage of the Pacific Northwest pop band The Exploding Hearts were killed when their van flipped over near Eugene, Oregon. The band was on their way home to Portland after a performance at San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill venue. They had also reportedly been in talks with Lookout! Records while in town about the possibility of a record deal.
Also in the van were Hearts guitarist Terry Six and manager Ratch Aronica, both of whom were treated for minor injuries. Ratch, who was kind enough to return our call while recovering from the accident, told us, "Terry and I don't know why we got out [alive]. I was sleeping, most of us were asleep when it happened. Matt was driving and when I woke up Adam was yelling just 'stop, stop.' I opened my eyes and saw the van going back and forth. I could just see him trying to steer back onto the road. We were told we hit the shoulder, the gravel area, and we just started slipping..."
The resilient manager of the Hearts, Ratch Aronica was in nearly every way the band's mother. She was its biggest fan, its go-to shoulder, and its guardian in a music industry that otherwise preys on the young and talented. Ratch was tireless. During the entirety of the band's recent visit to Cambridge, MA, she slept not at all, opting instead to help smooth out the slapdash planning of two admittedly uncertain concerts, the band's only East Coast appearances. Ratch was reportedly the only person in the van wearing a seatbelt.
We would like to extend our deepest condolences to Ratch, Terry, and all the friends and family of The Exploding Hearts.
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hmmmmm.....Never heard of them. I really need to keep up with everyone's board name changes!!!!!!
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Wow, that sucks. I was just reading about them since they were scheduled to play Bumbershoot.
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Tragic. They were a great band with a lot of promise.
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i got the exploding hearts record off emusic and i'm quite impressed with it... not the most orginial sound but it's got a snotty urgent quality to it. reminds me of wreckless eric and the romantics... gotta love the snarl of the vocalist and rickenbacker guitar.
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Does the name of the band suggest what their injuries were??
Oh, come on...take away the deaths and it's funny!
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Is Layne Staley still dead?
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Is Layne Staley still dead?
Nope! I heard to took the vacant spot in Whitesnake.
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The almighty to.
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Are you sure it wasnt Great White's vacant spot?
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Is Layne Staley still dead?
Nope! I heard to took the vacant spot in Whitesnake. [/b]
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Originally posted by Guiny:
Are you sure it wasnt Great White's vacant spot?
Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Is Layne Staley still dead?
Nope! I heard to took the vacant spot in Whitesnake. [/b]
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Geat white..whitesnake..Iron Maiden...Iron Butterfly, Whatever!
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They still got off luckier than this guy. (http://geocities.com/man_wit_hiv_just_lookin_4_friend/)
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Originally posted by The Bombay Doorsâ?¢:
They still got off luckier than this guy. (http://geocities.com/man_wit_hiv_just_lookin_4_friend/)
not hard to see why he only got laid once is it?
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R.I.P. Miss Elizabeth (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/misseaut1.html)
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Remember that band, For Squirrels, they had a decent album in the mid 90's, and they lost a few folks, including the singer, in a van crash...just thoguht of them. They had that decent single... mighty casey or something like that.
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For some reason I remember them. My brother had a cd of theres. Didn't the surviving members go on to form another band?
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Yep, the For Squirrels story is very similar to what happened to the Exploding Hearts. They were on the road touring and a tire blew out.
The song was called "Mighty K.C." (as in Kurt Cobain -- people thought the band was cursed because that song came out about a year after Kurt's suicide). The album, Example, is pretty good. You can hear REM influences (think Murmur or Document).
The surviving band members did carry on, but I can't remember what they renamed the band. Very sad story. :(
Originally posted by redsock:
Remember that band, For Squirrels, they had a decent album in the mid 90's, and they lost a few folks, including the singer, in a van crash...just thoguht of them. They had that decent single... mighty casey or something like that.
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The remaining For Squirrels members became Subrosa, who appear to have broken up as well.
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Originally posted by The Bombay Doorsâ?¢:
They still got off luckier than this guy. (http://geocities.com/man_wit_hiv_just_lookin_4_friend/)
make fun of him if you want, but that really does suck. what a horrible way to live your life.
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
[QB]
The song was called "Mighty K.C." (as in Kurt Cobain -- people thought the band was cursed because that song came out about a year after Kurt's suicide). The album, Example, is pretty good. You can hear REM influences (think Murmur or Document).
A band that sounds like REM and sings about Cobain (didn't he spell his name "Curt" by the way?) sounds like something I would really enjoy...NOT!
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Kurt Cobain
Curt Gowdy
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
[QB] The song was called "Mighty K.C." (as in Kurt Cobain -- people thought the band was cursed because that song came out about a year after Kurt's suicide).
mighty k.c. was a great song. i have the video on tape somewhere.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Kurt Cobain
Curt Gowdy
Curt Hansen (my attorney)
I know I've seen Cobain's name spelled with a "C" because I thought it was a "K" so that's why I noticed it...anyway, do we really care? Let's move on.