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I've just learned of Robbin Crosby's death 7 yrs after his death. How sad, I remember way back when Bon Jovi warmed up for Ratt, during their 7800 degree's album,Robbin got busted in Boise ID, for smoking a joint outside the tour bus, Figures, BPD is so absolutely notoriously up one's a.s.s. and will do every thing possible to make criminals over the smallest of offense's I met Robbin the following yr when they came back a second time to Boise. He really was a fun and personable guy, he was really fun to hang out with. I really liked...

Filed at 4:21 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock guitarist Robbin Crosby, a founding member of the 1980s heavy-metal ``hair'' band Ratt, has died after an eight-year battle with AIDS, according to the group's official Web site. He was 42. Crosby, who went public with his illness in a radio interview last July, saying he had contracted the disease through heroin use, died on Thursday. The band's Web site (http://www.therattpack.com) carried a photograph of the guitarist performing in concert beneath the words, ``In Memory of Robbin Crosby.'' The site's ``forum'' section posted dozens of messages of condolences from grieving...

I am posting this thread if anyone cares to add to it. I am a fan of so many different styles of music and the last 24 hours has claimed the lives of 2 men who took part in 2 totally different rock bands during 2 totally different periods of popularity. The death's of Layne Staley from Alice In Chains was a waste. A total waste of incredible talent, gone forever due to an addiction to heroin. Dee Dee Ramone from the famous punk band The Ramones died of the very same thing a little more than a day ago....