RIP Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell

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The lead singer of Smash Mouth died today age 56 from liver failure.




I loved that guy.





https://youtu.be/_bpCKoxlzCc?feature=shared

Aw man. I had heard he was sick and not expected to survive.

I'll listen to All Star in his honor today

https://youtu.be/LQj--Kjn0z8?feature=shared

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/smash-mouth-frontman-steve-harwell-dies-at-56/ar-AA1geoEl

My grandpa died of the same exact condition earlier this year.

Rest easy, Mr. Harwell. Your music made the world a little bit better.

That’s young. Makes me wonder if he simply had health problems or if he drank himself to death.

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R.I.P

He was an All-star. That song has been memed to death and back to life than most people can count.

He had a young son that died from cancer and id like to think they are reunited together.

We Boomers are gonna hafta learn to expect...our musical idols (classic rock era stars of the Seventies) to start dropping like flies. Like the Late Gary Wright, and the late Jimmy Buffet.

But it is still a bit jarring when younger generation idols kick the bucket as well...like Coolio, or like the lead singer of Smashmouth.

I still remember when the first rock star died of "natural causes":Fifties' star Bill Haley of "the Comets" (died at 52) in the Seventies, and little later Bob Marley died of mulitple cancers at only 35. Then there werent any deaths like that for a long time. Only untimely deaths of rock idols due to plane crashes, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, gunshot, or drug overdoses. But now (more or less) "natural" causes are catching up to our idols in their, and our, old age. Like the movie "the Big Chill".

When I first started tuning into the local rock alternative radio station years ago, Smash Mouth was one of the very first groups I remember listening to. Good memories.