Peter Banks died
 

Peter Banks died, apparently on March 8. Details are trickling in.

Re: Peter Banks died
 

RIP

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013...-appreciation/

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Last week Alvin Lee, and now Peter Banks. Sad news indeed. RIP Peter.

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2013...1947-2013.html

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very sad news, RIP Peter Banks your musical genius will be missed :(

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Sad news.

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Wow. All I can say is wow. I didn't see this coming. RIP Peter.

I just want to say I think he was and is a really under rated guitarist. His instinct album showed a technical skill that was really not very far behind his successors in Yes.

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one bad news after one another , Alvin and Peter , sad very sad

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Too bad, especially since he finally buried his hatchet over his Yes issues and was trying (in vein it seems) to tour the old stuff. I always thought he set the bar for what a Yes ax-man should be able to do. I liked quite a bit of his later stuff too. RIP. Not even that old either.

I really was irked when I read what Billy Sherwood wrote. He managed to write something kind while promoting his projects at the same time. Schmuck.

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sorry it was his time to go...hope one day to hear him play that great gig in the sky though...and yeah fish...really sherwood ]:-(

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The story becomes even more tragic. This was posted on FB by Nic Caciappo and is an unconfirmed story.

Friends of Yes & in particular Peter Banks. It has been since last Thursday Mar 7 that Peter passed away. He was found at his home on Fri Mar 8. His body is still in the morgue and not being claimed because he has no family, and only an ex-wife who doesn't wish to assist. He may be cremated by the morgue and his belongings taken into custody by authorities. His ex needs to at least to tell the morgue that his friend(s) can take over. Then, they will want fees for cremation and delivery of his remains. Peter's belongings are still safe. But, there will be a need to sort this out with helping hands. I may even have to go to London. There is now a PayPal account set up to donate, which is connected to Pete's friend of 40+ years, George Mizer. I stand by George, he is a good friend. The PayPal account is: themiz@peterbanks.net and ready to accept any donation amount. The expenses that will need to be covered are cremation, urn, travel from USA to London, other fees and expenses regarding Peter's belongings which could be auctioned to help pay for this as well. Again, the account is themiz@peterbanks.net.