I have heard of the band, but knew nothing about their sound.
That said, 63 is young to have Lewy body dementia, or any dementia at all. Sounds like he had a very rough last few years, but he is quoted from earlier this year, sounding as clear as a bell. It was mostly his body slowly closing down, as with the MSA/
I have also heard of them, but know nothing else about them, except they were the band who caused the Station Night Club fire.
The Station nightclub fire occurred on the evening of February 20, 2003, at The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band billed as “Jack Russell’s Great White”, an offshoot of the original Great White band,
The fire was the deadliest fireworks accident in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It was also the second-deadliest nightclub fire in New England, behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire.