When I woke up this morning and saw it, I had been awakened by nature's call. After reading about it, I couldn't fall back asleep right away, so I put on a playlist of Asia's first three albums, which was good to fall back asleep to and hear waking back up a couple of hours later.
Now at work, i've got UK spinning on my work computer. I will miss this man's vocal and bass talents a whole lot. Gonna have to spin some King Crimson when I get home tonight, and perhaps Ayreon's The Theory Of Everything, on which he was one of the highlights of the whole album.
I can't begin to imagine how Billy Sherwood must feel at this point, considering he was the fill-in for John for, at least, the first part of Asia's 2017 tour dates. I wonder how fans will feel, considering Asia was still 3/4ths of the original band, but now down to half. Not a slight against Billy, by any means, but I know a lot of fans were hoping John would get better so that he could perform with Asia this year.
I wonder if there will be a tribute on Cruise To The Edge this year? For both John and Greg...
-Marc.