J Church

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http://www.punknews.org/article/26125

 

Founding member of J Church and all around well-loved punk icon Lance Hahn has passed away. Hahn had been comatose since Friday, October 12th following a collapse during dialysis. According to a post attributed to Hahn's girlfriend:

 

"as far as the doctors can tell, this collapse was due to a sudden, drastic drop in blood pressure, which in turn was probably caused by a recurrence of the infection he had had in september combined with the stress of dialysis. he received immediate cpr from medical professionals at the dialysis center, but as it took fifteen or twenty minutes to resuscitate him, he suffered neurological damage from lack of oxygen to the brain, leaving him in a coma from which he never returned."

 

Lance Hahn was the lead singer, guitarist, and founding member of J Church. He also wrote extensive "punk rock history" articles for Maximumrocknroll. In addition of all of this, he found time to run Honey Bear Records. Hahn was working on a compliation book of writings on anarcho-punk bands, called "Let the Tribe Increase," to be released on AK Press.

 

Lance was also in a great band called Cringer before starting J Church. He's been dealing with major health issues for the past few years, but it is still a shock when something this young passes away. RIP.

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[Mrs. Peel]

I read this last night. So sad.

I was more a fan of Cringer than J Church, but I liked them both. "Two Friends" is up there with one of my favorite pop punk songs.

I checked out the Cringer MySpace page...he ran it. Just a few weeks ago he talked about reissuing all of the back catalog to put some money together to pay for transplant surgery.

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