A Very Sad Day
Julie Slick, Adrian Belew, Ken Latchney, and Eric Slick clowning around in the funhouse room at the Escher Museum in Holland...July 20, 2006
Ken Latchney, RIP ‘Kengineer’
As some of you may have read this morning over at DGMLive.com, Adrian’s long time friend and engineer, Ken Latchney, or Kengineer as we all fondly called him, passed away suddenly yesterday at the age of 38. The cause of death is believed to have been an asthma attack.
Along with those at Krimson-News, I will simply quote their sentiments: "I’d like to personally express my condolences to his family and Adrian’s in this tragic and unexpected loss, and I’d like to echo the sentiment over at Adrian’s official site by saying to please keep all of Ken’s family in your thoughts and prayers."
Julie and I are devastated over this news. As you probably know from reading this blog, Ken was Adrian's engineer for ten years and accompanied us on every show of this tour. One of the beautiful things about the Adrian Belew Power Trio is how quickly we bonded as a family within a period of only two months.
Over the next few days, I will share a funny/interesting Ken story or two from the tour but today I am much too sad to do anything but reflect.
With heavy hearts, the tour will proceed as planned beginning August 8 at B.B. Kings Blues in New York City.
posted by Eric Slick at 4:43 AM
7 Comments:
I'm so sorry.
Eric, Julie, Adrian, Robert and all the family of Kengineer! I am so sorry to hear of Kens passing!
I am at a loss for words and that RARELY happens.
Peace!
Mike
A terrible loss--I'm sorry to hear this about Ken, and my thoughts are with you all this week.
Thank you Susan, Mike, and Richard. Julie and I are still sort of stunned and really appreciate your kind words.
I like it! Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing this wonderful site with us.
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Your are Nice. And so is your site! Maybe you need some more pictures. Will return in the near future.
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I knew Ken from his time is Lake Placid and even took some classes with him. We were close but not best friends or anything like that. I had not seen Ken for many years (16 or so) so when I got a chance to catch up to him in Baltimore at The School of Rock show with Adrian I was so happy to reconnect with him.
I was looking forward to catching up with him again in Philadelphia yesterday. I can not begin to tell you how hard this hit me. I felt we were developing a deeper friendship and all I can say is my prayers go out to Adrian and Martha and Ken's family and friends.
Kengineer you touched my life in a way that continues to inspire me and teach me. I will miss you good friend.
Frank "Cuuck" Porter
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