Just Catching Up…

Welcome back to the Metal Circus…

Well it’s been 20 years since we were on this rollercoaster, and we’ve missed a lot of opportunities to bring you the information on our world.  So many changes to the scene, so many artists lost, and also so many exciting things that continue to move us. 

We would like to focus on the ones we lost over the last 20 years.  To us it doesn’t matter how, or why.  There were illnesses and tragedies, but in the end the bottom line is we lost some amazing music makers, and their impact on the genre will be felt for a very long time.  If I have for any reason omitted someone please let us know, I can assure you it was not intentional. [email us at theelectricedge@gmail.com] 

We pay tribute to the following artists:

1)      “Dimebag” Darrell Abbot – Pantera/Damageplan

2)      Eric Carr – Kiss

3)      Randy Castillo – Ozzy/Motley Crue/Lita Ford/Brett Michaels

4)      Steve “Steamin’” Clark – Def Leppard

5)      Robbin Crosby – Ratt

6)      Dennis “Piggy” D’Amour – Voivod

7)      Ronnie James Dio – Dio/Rainbow/Black Sabbath/Elf/Heaven & Hell

8)      Kevin DuBrow – Quiet Riot

9)      Dean Fasano – Message

10)   Rhett Forrester – Riot

11)   John Fowler – Steelheart/Rage Of Angels

12)   Mel Galley – Trapeze/Whitesnake/Phenomena

13)   Ray Gillen – Badlands/Rondinelli/Black Sabbath/Sun Red Sun/Phenomena

14)   Paul Gray – Slipknot

15)   Munetaka Higuchi – Loudness

16)   Marcel Jacob – Talisman/Yngwie Malmsteen/Human Clay/Last Autumn’s Dream/Humanimal

17)   Corey James – Lizzy Borden

18)   Kelly Johnson – Girlschool

19)   Tim Kelly – Slaughter

20)   Phil Kennemore – Y&T

21)   Jani Lane – Warrant

22)   Steve Lee – Gotthard

23)   Ty Longley – Great White/Samantha 7

24)   Tommy McManus – Mama’s Boys

25)   Daniel McMaster – Bonham

26)   Michelle Meldrum – Phantom Blue

27)   Gary Moore – Thin Lizzy/Colloseum II/Solo

28)   Alex Nelson – Lizzy Borden

29)   Criss Oliva – Savatage

30)   Ricky Parent – Enuff Z’Nuff/War & Peace

31)   Cozy Powell – Rainbow/Black Sabbath/Brian May/Jeff Beck/Michael Schenker/Yngwie Malmsteen [and way too many to mention….]

32)   John Rutsey – Rush [1968-1974]

33)   Taiji Sawada – Loudness/ X

34)   Chuck Schuldiner – Death

35)   Ingo Schwichtenberg – Helloween

36)   Mark St. John – Kiss/White Tiger

37)   Peter Steele – Type O Negative

38)   Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan – Avenged Sevenfold

39)   David Wayne – Metal Church

40)   Sandy West – The Runaways

41)   Wendy O. Williams – The Plasmatics/Solo

42)   Dave Williams – Drowning Pool

Thank you for making our world rock.  You will be missed.

In the future, we will talk individually about these artists, we just wanted to pay our respects.


Thanks.

Stefan & Finster