15th Anniversary of the death of Atheist's prodigy Bass player Roger Patterson

[WhoCares]

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On this the 15th Anniversary of the death of Atheist's prodigy Bass player Roger Patterson, we wish to ask you all to throw your horns in the air one long time for him, and maybe spin "An Incarnations Dream" from U.P. in his honor, he was truly one of metal's best bass musicians ever!
We miss just as much today as we ever have. Myself(Kelly) and Steve Flynn went to visit his grave in Palmetto Florida last week, smoked a fatty and hung out with him. He would be absolutely blown away by the respect that you have all created and shown for him 15 years later! Here's to you Roger (Horns fully extended) Cheers Kelly...
See you in Europe this summer!

I was asked to post this on behalf of the band. Please, no disrespectful comments.
Lets see some horns for a well loved and missed brother in metal. :devil:

[Crucified Coma]

rip man

:devil:

[Frank Watkins]

Hails Roger a true Death Metal legend and a great friend we miss you brother!!!!

[Beardy]

RIP :devil:

[AndThePsychicSaw]

Rest In Peace Roger you crazy fucker! Holy shit was he fucking insane. A Fucking Legend.

[Transient]

i missed the boat on this. one of my favorite bass players of all time.


you'll always be remembered!

[epitaph]

The best of them all.
Too bad we only got to hear a handfull of recordings from him...

[Martinator]

Roger, RIP :devil:
Hope you're penning even more awesome stuff with Chuck, wherever you guys are!

[phodg]

RIP dude.
The UP demos with Roger kick ass !!

[Iced_Deth]

Roger was the man, I'm definitely gonna be spinning some Atheist today.

[philanthrope]

RIP Roger!
I hope you're having a good time in metal heaven. :devil:
Cheers! :beerchug:

[WhoCares]

We'll most definitely spin the An Incarnation's Dream demo (with Roger!) on my wife's radio show (Sex to 9 with Maria, 6 to 9 pm UK time on Totalrock - www.totalrock.com) tonight.

[Tyler Durden]

Roger may be gone... but his legend lives on!!!

[InvoluntarySlaughter]

R.I.P. brother! :devil:

[zyquix]

Dumb question maybe, but why specifically "Incarnation"?

[Reincremation]

guys, come on. metal heaven? the band is called ATHEIST. i am sure that roger wouldn't want his own beliefs pushed aside in favor of nice ideas about how all the musicians meet up in heaven and jam. it's a cop-out.

[Thuathail]

RIP Roger! :devil:
I would just like to say how much of an inspiration he is/was to me as a metal bassist. Definitely one of the ones that I always aspire to be like (but fail by a long-shot) and I dont know how many times I've ever slapped a guitarist in the face who says "bassists can't do shit" by popping in Piece of Time!

[Azathoth]

RIP Roger

One of my big inspirations for my bass playing.

[motherman]

I´ll salute you with a drink tonight Roger, rest in peace man.

[unheard1]

Dumb question maybe, but why specifically "Incarnation"?
It's been my dream to re-enter the stream, to let carnates know what life really means, if one understands that's all i can ask, life to you is such a wretched task.
It's just lyrically appropriate, and one of his favs! cheers K :devil:

[unheard1]

RIP Roger! :devil:
I would just like to say how much of an inspiration he is/was to me as a metal bassist. Definitely one of the ones that I always aspire to be like (but fail by a long-shot) and I dont know how many times I've ever slapped a guitarist in the face who says "bassists can't do shit" by popping in Piece of Time!
i love that shit! thanks for sharing ! cheers K :1purp3:

[epitaph]

I'm currently making a school project of Atheist.
(it has to be atleast 10 page long) And on the front page
I'll put Atheist's logo + the In memory of Roger Patterson pic.

I also did a similar thread at the official Cannibal Corpse forum about Roger.

[Reincremation]

I'm currently making a school project of Atheist.
(it has to be atleast 10 page long) And on the front page
I'll put Atheist's logo + the In memory of Roger Patterson pic.

I also did a similar thread at the official Cannibal Corpse forum about Roger.


that's cool. i've done a project on Megadeth for school, and also one on the evolution of heavy metal.

[epitaph]

Yeah, I've done a few before too, but they were just about one or two pages long... (Vader and SOAD believe it or not.. hey it was 3 years ago!)

:google:

[Hiromakuta]

R.I.P Roger Patterson.

[bassman11]

To my good friend Rest in peace my brother I love you and youll always be in my memory till the day I say good bye I am a littel late with this thoughts but your right here with us everyday.

Your Friend,

Tony Choy

[Scot Patrick]

I had the great fortune to be around to see Roger play many times at shows and at the warehouse. He was just straight out a great guy and alot of fun to party with, I miss him and the Atheist days and think of them often . Roger wherever the Hell you are I hope your having a good time and doing what you love most . You rock the world man.

[unheard1]

Dumb question maybe, but why specifically "Incarnation"?
It's probably the best song we ever wrote, it encompasses everything that we were, it has about 14 different parts, and it's not unlike a fucking roller coaster, and i know roger loved that song!!! THANKS FOR ASKING! CHEERS KELLY

[Martinator]

It's probably the best song we ever wrote

Great minds... ;) It's been my favorite Atheist tune since the release of UP. One thing I've wondered about is if there's anything on Elements that still included Roger-related riffs/ideas/bass-doodles/whatever. The answer seems obvious, and I never got the impression - in fact to me that and Steve were two things I really missed, listening to Elements, when compared to PoT and UP. I'm still curious to hear about the creative process that resulted in Elements, compared to the first two, though.

[Deadpool3001]

R.I.P Roger, great inspiration to metal\m/

One of the greatest bassists whoever stepped on this fucking world.\m/:)

[skin_blanketed]

Oh man i'm sorry i'm so late on this. Roger was/is my favorite metal bassist by far. That man could shred like no other. I'll definately be spinning some Athiest and taking a shot in his memory. Lost but not forgotten.

[infoterror]

I consider Roger's loss to be a tragedy for metal. Apparently, he was also an intelligent comrade to some very important musicians. That his loss is often overlooked suggests much of the metal community could have learned a lot from him!

[AndThePsychicSaw]

I consider Roger's loss to be a tragedy for metal. Apparently, he was also an intelligent comrade to some very important musicians. That his loss is often overlooked suggests much of the metal community could have learned a lot from him!

wow. A post where you actually aren't shitting on a dead musician like chuck or dimebag. congrats, you just saw your first sign of growing up.

[AndThePsychicSaw]

Oh wait, I was wrong. You just made a thread in the dimebag forum. I find it great that you praise roger, but stop being a fucking dick about dime and chuck. You dont like them and their music? who fucking cares. But you dont have to bash everything.

We lost a good one when Roger Patterson of Atheist died (http://www.smnnews.com/board/showthread.php?t=106397). We didn't lose anything when Chuck Schuldiner was stopped by the gods from producing another overhyped heavy metal album with thin death vocals. We missed nothing when demonic forces destroyed New Orleans for being full of crack-addicted criminals and whining privileged politicians. Of course, when Dimebag died, we lost a highly visible symbol of the incompetence of most metalheads. But that so many fail to consider that Roger Patterson was an actual music, artistic and cultural loss suggests they're all just looking for a surrogate Jesus instead of finding musicians who matter.

Death to Dimebag! Death to Chuck! Death to NOLA! Hail Roger Patterson!

[seedsofthesuffering]

15 years already, wow.
RIP dude, never met him unfortunately but he was a great guy by all accounts, and definitely one of the most talented people to ever pick up an electric instrument.
This music is timeless... you created a truly great thing there with your brothers.

[Bassshredder]

Roger was incredible,the band in general was just like....I dont know how to put it into words........the best thing that ever happened to me.And infoterror
what you said about Chuck is just fuckin wrong Id really like to go off on ya but I wont disrespect Rogers thread

[quigonkick]

And infoterror
what you said about Chuck is just fuckin wrong Id really like to go off on ya but I wont disrespect Rogers thread

Broski, you took the words right out of my fingers. I'd love to lay it on thick, but not in this thread.

On a semi-related note, I've seen so many great shows in New Orleans that it isn't funny. Some of my greatest musical memories were given life in that city. I'll be there for Ministry in May and many more for years to come.