Died On This Date (August 2, 2010) Dave Hagerty /Singer For Fattback
themusicsover Dave Hagerty
DOB Unknown – August 2, 2010
Dave Hagerty was a singer and guitarist for St. Louis area rock band, Fattback. Formed in 2005, the band quickly built a local following due to their tight musicianship and Memphis-soul infused dance-til-you-drop live shows. According to local police reports, Hagerty and his companion were involved in an automobile accident during the early hours of August, 2, 2010. The driver of the other vehicle fled the scene and Hagerty was taken to a local hospital where he later died of his injuries. He was 28 years old.
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George Taylor Morris was a popular FM disc jockey who most recently could be heard on XM Satellite’s classic rock channel, Deep Tracks. Morris began his radio career while still in high school in King City, California, and after graduating, he moved to a station in Lake Tahoe to work as programmer and disc jockey. Over the years, Morris worked at popular stations from Santa Barbara, California to New York City. He is perhaps best remembered for sparking a minor phenomenon while on the air at Boston’s WZLX in 1997. He had been tipped off about several remarkable similarities between The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon. After syncing the opening of the movie up with the album at home one evening, Morris went on the air the next day and discussed the amazing synchronicity of the two, especially when you’re stoned. The word spread around the world almost immediately, despite the fact that the internet was basically in its infancy at the time. Morris went to work at XM in 2001 where he spun classic rock records and hosted the popular “XM Artist Confidential” interview series where he sat down with many of music’s biggest names. George Taylor Morris died of throat cancer at the age of 62.
Jason Thirsk had been the bassist for southern California pop-punk band, Pennywise until, for reasons unknown, he left the band. Thirsk had been suffering from alcoholism and battling depression in those days, and had been in and out of rehab. It has been reported that he was in a deep depression about parting ways with the band, leading him to shoot and kill himself at the age of 28.