Just heard about this....
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/20/guitarist.dead.ap/index.html>

10,000 Maniacs guitarist Rob Buck dead at 42
December 20, 2000
Web posted at: 2:05 PM EST (1905 GMT)

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Rob Buck, lead guitarist for the rock band
10,000 Maniacs, has died of complications from liver failure. He was 42.

Buck died Tuesday night at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said
Blair Woods, the band's publicist.

Buck wrote the music for some of the band's best-known hits, including "Hey
Jack Kerouac," and "What's The Matter Here?"

"Rob was a great guitarist and very underrated," band member Dennis Drew told
the Buffalo News. "He had a big influence on other bands. This is a very sad
time for all of us."

Buck was born in Jamestown, New York and started playing guitar at the age of
6 and decided to become a professional guitarist at 16 after seeing "The Jimi
Hendrix Story."

He formed 10,000 Maniacs with Drew, Steven Gustafson, John Lombardo and
Natalie Merchant in 1981, taking their name from the 1964 horror film "2,000
Maniacs." Merchant left the band in 1993 for a solo career and was replaced
by Mary Ramsey.

"10,000 Maniacs was one of the seminal bands that helped form the shape of
modern pop in the '90s," said Jack Barton, music director at radio station
WYEP in Pittsburgh.

The band last performed November 6 at a rally for Hillary Rodham Clinton at
Buffalo State College in New York.

Copyright 2000 The Associated Press.

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