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  • RIP John Sykes

    From poindexter FORTRAN@REALITY to All on Tue Jan 21 06:55:08 2025
    65 years old, died of cancer. He co-wrote some of the songs on
    Whitesnake's 1987 album, played guitar on the recorded tracks (although
    David Coverdale fired the recording band and hired a new band to tour).

    Before that, he played guitar with Thin Lizzy. Afterwards, he had a
    killer band in the late '80s/early '90s called Blue Murder with The
    Firm's Tony Franklin on Bass and Carmine Appice (Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart)
    on drums. He then went on to sing and play guitar in the reformed Thin
    Lizzy.

    Blue Murder's self-titled debut spent a couple of years in my car
    stereo.

    RIP.



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  • From Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 21 11:55:15 2025
    Re: RIP John Sykes
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Tue Jan 21 2025 06:55 am

    65 years old, died of cancer. He co-wrote some of the songs on
    Whitesnake's 1987 album, played guitar on the recorded tracks (although David Coverdale fired the recording band and hired a new band to tour).

    Before that, he played guitar with Thin Lizzy. Afterwards, he had a
    killer band in the late '80s/early '90s called Blue Murder with The
    Firm's Tony Franklin on Bass and Carmine Appice (Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart)
    on drums. He then went on to sing and play guitar in the reformed Thin Lizzy.

    Blue Murder's self-titled debut spent a couple of years in my car
    stereo.

    I don't recall hearing a lot of Blue Murder, but when I was in a prog rock band in the mid-late 80s, Carmine Appice and his band at the time (either Blue Murder or King Kobra, I don't recall), rented the rehearsal studio in LA next to ours and we did hear a lot of eachothers tunes. I wrote a bit about my few interactions with Carmine in my obit to the keyboardist of that band (and later good friend and Synchronet contributor):
    https://wiki.synchro.net/person:ille_homine_albe
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