MR

Posted: **Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:38 am**

Learned of this via Gibson Guitar's post on Facebook. What a shame. Mike was an outstanding guitar virtuoso! And from what I've always heard, was the sweetest, nicest, most positive guy you could ever meet. RIP Mike.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... e-20121223

Posted: **Tue Dec 25, 2012 4:18 am**

Too young ... RIP

Posted: **Tue Dec 25, 2012 4:55 am**

Read this yesterday. I totally forgot he was the guitarist on Psalm 69. What was the cause of death?

Posted: **Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:01 am**

Quote from the above article:

The medical examiner listed the cause of death as a sudden heart attack brought on by heart disease.

He was just 47.

Posted: **Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:16 am**

MotherCitay wrote:Quote from the above article:

The medical examiner listed the cause of death as a sudden heart attack brought on by heart disease.

He was just 47.

And as far as I've been able to deduce, the only way you could have heart disease THAT far progressed at 47 yrs. old is through heavy, heavy cigarette smoking for the majority of those years - like 3 packs a day kind of heavy smoking! :shock:

Posted: **Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:02 am**

Seems to me like a lot of famous people died over this Christmas weekend. Oscar Madison died too.

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:24 am**

JRNYMAN wrote:
MotherCitay wrote:Quote from the above article:

The medical examiner listed the cause of death as a sudden heart attack brought on by heart disease.

He was just 47.
And as far as I've been able to deduce, the only way you could have heart disease THAT far progressed at 47 yrs. old is through heavy, heavy cigarette smoking for the majority of those years - like 3 packs a day kind of heavy smoking!

Daryl Kyle - a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals died of heart disease. On June 22, 2002 during pregame warmups for what would have been a day game in Chicago against the rival Cubs, team personnel noted Kile's absence. Hotel staff entered Kile's room and discovered him in his bed, under the covers, dead of a heart attack. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was a 90-percent blockage in two coronary arteries. He was only 33.

How do you find that in someone so young? He had to be getting physicals in order to keep his contract. It's not like you are going to perform the dye test to check for artery blockages in someone that age unless he was having symptoms.

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:35 am**

Age is only one of the factors. Lifestyle also plays a large part. What was these guy's diet? Hamburgers, hotdogs, potato chips, french fries, etc.?

MR

Ministry Guitarist Mike Scaccia Dies After Onstage Collapse

Ministry Guitarist Mike Scaccia Dies After Onstage Collapse