Gosh, what a shame.
Always makes me feel my mortality to hear about people dying from unnecessary accidents.
Also to note, Liam Neeson's wife Natasha Richardson died from a brain bleed when she fell while on a skiing holiday in Mont Tremblanc, Quebec in 2009.
Also it is believed comic actor Bob Sagett died after he fell and hit his head in a hotel room in Orlando Florida.
He apparently didn't think there was much wrong with him and went to bed.
The eerie thing is that neither Saget nor Richardson felt that their head trauma was that serious so they did nothing to treat their accidents.
Be warned.

 

mjf wrote:

When I first heard the news, I tuned around to the many rock stations receivable in the GTA and not one had any news of Ace Frehely's passing or any KISS music playing.  All voice-tracked I guess with no live DJs.  Such a big difference from the old days.  While driving home just now, I tuned around again and same thing except for Buffalo's 97 Rock where the DJ was talking about Ace's passing and how he would be playing KISS throughout the evening's show and that they would be airing a special tomorrow.  Live radio lives on at WGRF!

Both Q107 and Boom did; I guess you just missed it.

mjf wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Both Q107 and Boom did; I guess you just missed it.

I did check Boom and Q first but definitely missed the mention.  Do they have live DJs in the evening or was it an insert into the voice tracking?

They were both live.

Paul Jeffries wrote:

Another rocker that suffered a similar fate was Stiv Bators, vocalist and founder of The Lords of the New Church, who had scored a Top 40 hit in Canada in late 1982 with "Open Your Eyes" (#34 RPM; #21 CHUM Chart).

Bators was hit by a car while riding his motorbike in France in June 1990. He was knocked off his bike, but believing that he wasn't seriously injured, he returned to his apartment and then later died in his sleep as the result of a traumatic brain injury.

Tragic.


PJ

Bators was also the leader of The Dead Boys before the Lords and had a solo near hit with his cover of The Choir's 1967 hit  It 's Cold Outside.
 

The death of the KISS guitarist has one P.D. lamenting how unprepared some radio stations are to handle the sudden passing of a major rock star. 

"On social media. I immediately started scanning the dial and looking through my phone but found nothing. Where was the music? The mentions? The memories?

I’ve mentioned this issue to countless friends in the industry and the feeling seems to be that it’s not really important these days. I’ve been told, “people don’t get their news from the radio anymore”. 

Really? I beg to differ."

When The Music Dies, Where Is Radio?