According to DIRTY LOOKS' official European web site, the band's bassist, Gregory Pianka, was killed in a bar stabbing on February 5.

Pianka joined DIRTY LOOKS in 2009 and was working on the group's upcoming CD, "I.C.U."

Millcreek police charged Joseph Lumsden Jr., 64, with criminal homicide and a number of other offenses, according to GoErie.com. Lumsden was arraigned before District Judge Paul Manzi, of Millcreek Township, and taken to the Erie County Prison, where he is being held without bail.

Police said Lumsden stabbed Gregory Pianka, 35, at the Hi & Dri Pub, 3077 West Ridge Road, at about 11:40 p.m. Friday. Pianka was taken to Hamot Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=134746

:rip: Gregory Pianka

I read about this on Blabbermouth. Very sad. People doing stupid things in bars. Killing in bars, they belong behind bars.


I served on a jury back in 1997 over an armed altercation where a drunken patron fired a gun and came close to hitting a waitress in a bar except for a countertop video game which blocked the bullet.