Posted on 04/29/2003 4:55:37 AM PDT by Living Free in NH
LOS ANGELES -- The rock band Great White will perform up to three songs at a benefit concert tomorrow, nearly nine weeks after a deadly blaze erupted while they were playing in a Rhode Island nightclub. The fire killed 99 people.
Great White's guitarist Ty Longley was among those who died.
Survivors of the group agreed to perform one song at West Hollywood's Key Club to raise money for a memorial fund in honor of Longley. It's unclear what songs the group will play.
Proceeds will be donated to a charity overseen by Longley's parents and earmarked for his pregnant girlfriend, Heidi Peralta.
Longley listened to Great White in the late 1980's and idolized guitarist Mark Kendall. He joined the band about four years ago.
A Rhode Island grand jury is probing the circumstances surrounding the blaze. Of the 99 who died, more than 30 were from Massachusetts. (AP)
It's the classic boy-lost-girl pop rock. I haven't listened to them since the fire, and I wondered how it would sound, or if they were strong enough to ever pull it off again, now that there is such REAL tragedy and horror lurking behind the music.
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