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#872302 Thu 02/02/17 13:01 UTC
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I haven't seen this posted up here yet- This happened a couple days ago - Jan 31

John Wetton passed away in his sleep in a hospice care center in the UK (colon cancer)

he was a prog rock icon most notable as the front man for the 80s supergroup ASIA. John Wetton/ Steve Howe /Geoff Downes / Carl Palmer

He had also been a part of King Crimson in the early to mid 70s as well as Uriah Heep, Family, and Roxy Music (and a few others). The 70s prog rock era was extremely interconnected and fluid because the lineups of the bands evolved through the interchanging of various members.

He was 67.

In the early early 80s, ASIA, the Moving Pictures album by Rush, and the 80s version of YES(90215 album) were the groups that opened my heart to prog rock and expanded my musical horizons as i reached back through the 70s and late 60s to really discover this genre. to this day I am rather broad based in my musical tastes due to the wide ranging exposure i had in music- (my father listened to country and bluegrass and Irish folk music)(and as a rebellious young teen I wanted to listen to ronnie james dio fronting black sabbath and blue oyster cult(that was a whole different direction of exploration that had it's own interwoven ties- (Blackmore's Rainbow and Deep Purple etc))

Asia in particular had an impact on me like few other groups ever did. Once the door was opened I could say that my tastes expanded beyond what ASIA was ever conceived to be in terms of commercial prog rock/ pop fusion... but to this day I can listen to those first two albums beginning to end and feel happy in my heart and still consider the time to be well spent.

Goodbye JW, and thanks for 'gift' you gave to me


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My Twitter feed was full of tributes to him on Tuesday; a lot of people I know knew him personally.


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