I meant to put this up yesterday, but I got distracted by jobs and such. Anyway, in a major bummer for me, Voivod guitar player Denis "Piggy" D'Amour died Friday night from colon cancer. It was really a shock, as it was only about Wednesday or so that the general public knew he was sick at all, or that it was really that bad.
I honestly hadn't been a Voivod fan for very long; somehow, they just slipped under my radar until Jason Newsted curiousity led me to illegally download the 2003 self-titled album, which then led to actually me buying that album and hunting down the rest whenever I can find them. And sadly, one of the main things that made their music so cool was Piggy's work as a guitar player. He did really simple things, but made them sound so weird that you just knew there had to be more to it than that. In fact, according to Crisis Guitar player Azfaal Nasiruddeen, "I will never forget him laughing while telling me that whenever he saw VOIVOD guitar tablature in a magazine, it was always wrong. The authors could never figure out what Piggy was playing, so they always created these complex looking chordal structures. Piggy would laugh as he showed me how simple his actual approach was, and how his chords were created purely by sense of sound and feel as opposed to some technical nonsense." There aren't many unique guitar players out there, and it sucks that we had to lose one of those few. Rest in peace, best wishes to your family, etc. Later, dude.
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