I was sitting here last night, trying to think of a good way to start this music-blog, when the news hit Twitter, Facebook, MySpace…. Gary Moore died in his sleep at the age of 58.
 
First I couldn’t believe it – it had only been posted on one news-site and then spread by fans and music-sites. But no “real” news-site even mentioned it. I chose to believe that it was just some kind of hoax.
 
Unfortunately, I couldn’t do that for more than ten minutes, because before I knew it, BBC published the news on their site too.
 
The shock and the sadness that’s spreading all over the music world now is unbelievable. Another guitar-hero has left us. It feels like it really wasn’t his time to go already.
 
The first LP (that’s what it was back  then – vinyls…) I ever reviewed was Gary Moore’s “Victims of the Future”. The year was 1984 and I was 15. I loved that record. I loved “After the War” too. Actually, I liked most of his rock-albums. I wasn’t a big fan of the blues-era but you can’t escape the fact that he was a very influental musician and guitarist.
 
It’s a terrible loss to the world of rock. Gary – R.I.P – and say hello to Randy and Jimi from all of us down here….