The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by tilthefirefades

Zombie, Peter's passing was a huge shock to my family. My uncle has loved Type O for as long as I can remember. So they became important to all of us. He and his friends got together last week and played some of their songs for us, it was nice.

Yeah, I think it's hit a lot of people pretty hard, especially because he had been doing so much better the past couple of years and was working on new material and everything.

Type O has been a major part of my musical life since forever. I still remember the first time I popped the taped copy of Bloody Kisses my friend Ogre made for me into my little boombox. I sat on my bed and listened to it straight through 3 times before I could be bothered to get up and do anything else.

It's just a huge loss. Pete was a brilliant mess of a genius musically, and he was literally larger than life - I mean, dude played a double bass like it was a guitar. And that voice! Type O's sound in general was so unique, you could never hear them and mistake it for anything else.

He also had the best sense of humor of any musician I can think of. What other band but Type O Negative would name their greatest hits album "The Least Worst of"?

So tell your uncle I sincerely feel his pain. I'm wearing my TEAM PROZAC shirt even as we type.