Rod Price, Foghat founder. R.I.P

First posted on Mark Is Cranky:

Man, oh man, this month had not been kind to aging classic rock stars. First Danny Joe Brown passes away, then it's Rod Price, guitarist and founding member of Foghat. I remember hearing a comedian make a joke about how it'll be weird to see rock stars dying of natural causes...har, har, har.

Well, this wasn't particularly funny, or natural. In a purely freak accident, Price fell down a stairway at his Wilton, New Hampshire home. Yes, just a ten or so miles (as the crow flies) from where I'm typing this here posting. In fact, I found out about it just a few minutes ago after trudging down through the snow (yea, it's supposed to be 'spring' here...right!) to the mailbox to pick up my copies of the Boston Globe and the Nashua Telegraph. One of the Telegraph headlines announced Price's death. Shoot, I didn't even know the man lived around here.

I've gotta go listen to Foghat Live.

(Check out Paul Roy's excellent review of the Foghat Millenium Tour DVD here.)

Article Author: Mark Saleski

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