Gordon Paterson overlijdt
Na een drie jaar durende strijd tegen het maligne lymfoon (een vorm van kanker) heeft gerespecteerd geluidsengineer Gordon “Gungi” Paterson, die werkte voor onder andere Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Steve Vai en Rainbow afgelopen maandag het leven gelaten.
Steve Vai: I first met Gungi on the David Lee Roth ‘Eat ‘Em and Smile’ tour. He was our front of house mixer. Gungi was Scottish and a giant of a man at over seven feet tall with an even larger heart. I had the honor of working with him on my ‘Fire Garden’ tour where he tour managed and did front of house sound. Gungi was one of those people who was always smiling and never had a bad word to say about anyone. He was honest, professional and had a great sense of humor and joy about him. You could not help but feel uplifted being around him.
Mick Hughes (geluidsman van o.a. Metallica: I met Gungi many years ago, and I had always fondly thought of him as an originator of mixing techniques, some of which I still employ today. The world of live sound was a little in the dark ages in those days and Gungi was a founding member in the fight to make it what we enjoy today. Total respect. God bless, my old friend. Rest in peace.