Pip Pyle R.I.P.

[lilolee]

Just spotted this else where
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2006 is such a cruel year... a mere few hours after the concert in Groningen with Hatfield & the North, drummer extraordinaire Pip Pyle died yesterday at the age of 56.

Always a central figure in the so-called 'Canterbury' scene - Gong, Hatfield & the North, National Health, Soft Heap, In Cahoots, Shortwave, Brainville, and his own Equip'Out and Bash!, and a lot more - he will be sorely missed. rest in heaven, dear dear philip...

 

[sideshowbob]

Now that's a damned shame.

-- Ian

 

[nickl]

I can't find any reference to his death - just a posting like this on a Canterbury forum that they've heard he's dead. I'm not casting aspersions - I'd just like you to be wrong!

 

[lilolee]

I know what you mean, but I'm afraid it is mentioned on http://www.pippyle.com/ , but only as a Died tag line at present.

 

[RickyC6]

There is an RIP in the News section of that site.

Rich

 

[nickl]

I know what you mean, but I'm afraid it is mentioned on http://www.pippyle.com/ , but only as a Died tag line at present.

Oh crap. Went there earlier and he was still "alive". Ta anyway.

 

[Snufkin]

as a fan of the softs and other related bands it is sad to see another of the musical hero's from my youth fall off the ledge.

 

[Fretless Eric]

This is hard to grasp. A favourite of mine and never disappointed with Hatfields, National Health, Richard Sinclair, etc.

I am deeply sorry to read this.

 

[MichaelC]

A sad loss.