TMZ says he had a degenerative nerve disease in one of his hands, so he could only play keyboard with 8 fingers, which caused “depression to set in”, thus the suicide.
Gotta hand it to him though...he is skipping the beat...forever...
Tragic. The last time I saw Les Paul he joked about being down to playing with three fingers...then he blew the room away with them. I was 6 feet away from Paul and he was indeed playing with just three fingers all night long.