John Wetton
i’d like to send some good vibes and thoughts out to John Wetton. He has been recently diagnosed with a heart condition and had to cancel Asia’s
August 8, 2007
2nd Leg of ASIA’s
“Heat Of The Momentâ€
2007 US/Canadian Tour Postponed.
The British rock group, ASIA, announced today that the second leg of its North American tour has been postponed due to a recently discovered heart condition, likely to require surgery, for lead singer John Wetton.
Mr. Wetton is expected to make a full recovery and looks forward to returning to his work with ASIA, as well as his other musical endeavours, at the earliest possible time.
The postponed shows, which were in Western Canada and the US West Coast, are expected to be re-scheduled around the 2008 US concert itinerary.
John recently had a routine medical which returned a clean bill of health. John’s consultant suggested a comprehensive check up, during which adverse heart readings were discovered, indicating advanced coronary disease. The routine medical check had included conventional procedures from blood pressure to ECG tests, none of which suggested the presence of heart disease.
John now has to undertake an angiogram in the immediate future. This will determine whether the condition can be treated with drugs, or whether immediate open heart surgery is needed.
John is philosophical and confident about the situation and wants it to be known that he will be back on stage as soon as possible. “God didn’t save me from drowning only to beat me up on the beach. I look forward to getting back on tour.â€
Fans are encouraged to monitor the originalasia.com website for updates and further information.
Let’s all hope for a speedy recovery!! take care John!
oh and speaking of Asia
here’s an excerpt:
Now it just made me think about some famous but miserable people I have come across in my humble life as a small part of this great bullshit music business, and I’m reckoning smart and cool as he may be, Sting’s got to be in my top ten. He was pretty off-hand with me on the one occasion when I bumped into him about 20 odd years ago at a Synclavier convention. Other racing certainties from my “Miserable Musical Bastards of the Century Award” would definitely have to include: Tony Banks from Genesis (never seen him smile), the guitarists – Gary Moore, Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton (old misery guts), Van Morrison (he’s right up there!), Marillion, anyone from the prog-rock band Arena apart from John Mitchell, in fact most people from the neo-prog bands, The Spice Girls (all of them – ah sorry not in the ‘musical category – my mistake!), Billy Joel (as po-faced as they come), Bob Geldof (again, doesn’t really qualify because can hardly be classed ‘musical’ – if he were, he’d be in there!), Paul McCartney (although I never actually was introduced to him – just stood near him at a party, and could feel his miserable vibe emanating profusely) and there are quite a few more I’ve encountered along the way. Can’t think of them all right now – try to forget ‘em generally, as they could make you morose even thinking about them. There is just something about these people where you just know whatever success has brought them; they are destined to be real miserable, humourless bastards forever and a day. You’d certainly never want to be stuck next to any of them on a plane that’s for sure, let alone spend any more than 2 seconds with. Anyways – f**k ‘em – boring old gits! Let’s keep smiling shall we folks?
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