RIP “Big” Bob Carey

Sad news from the Tool camp today as Blair informs us that Danny’s father Bob passed away recently. According to Blair’s post:

Last night I received the sad news that Danny’s father had passed away. Big Bob, as we called him, died peacefully from an illness in his house in Kansas, and Danny was able to visit with him in his last moments.
Before suffering a stroke, Bob would attend quite a few Tool concerts – obviously being very proud of what his son had achieved in the music industry – and I know from reading email and comments on the various message forums that many fans of the band had talked to him at these shows and always had very positive things to say about his enthusiasm for what Tool represented.
Personally, I had many chances to ‘hang out’ with Big Bob over the years, but what I will always remember (and cherish) the most was a trip that several of us took to Rennes-le-Chateau in the South of France back in the 1990s. Bob was so fascinated by the place and its environs that he returned a couple of years later, probably once again shouting in his mid-western accent to some french chef that his steak needed “More fire!”
While staying at his house (with Danny) one weekend in the winter, Bob showed me the attic room where Danny learned to play the drums. When I asked him if he ever thought that Danny would enjoy the success that he has, he replied by saying that when he heard him playing perfectly along with an ELP album, he knew that drums and music were his calling.
As I’m sure Danny and his brothers Dale and David would agree, Bob can now select his shiny clubs and finally play all those higher-dimensional links in the great beyond.

Condolences from everyone here at Fourtheye.