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How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 4:33 am
by vanbonn
About one year ago it was announced that, due to health issues, Mitch Watkins would replace Bob Metzger on the guitar. Does anyone know how Bob Metzger is doing?

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 5:37 am
by lizzytysh
Thank you for asking that, vanbonn.
I've been wondering the same... and I miss Bob's playing, as well.
Hope we get good news on him.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 8:38 am
by HelenOE

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:40 pm
by Athnuachan
vanbonn wrote: Does anyone know how Bob Metzger is doing?
Glad you asked, vanbonn. Liked him and missed him - a quiet, steady presence.
(Just shows - idolized when on stage, quickly forgotten by most when off.
Sad realities of life... :( )

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 3:56 pm
by lizzytysh
Yes, indeed, I'm sure it is, Helen!
Thank you!

Enjoyed the first comment by him and :( regarding the second one in the exchange there.
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Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 5:31 am
by regensburg
I have ask this Question too and never found out how he is doing miss him too.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:49 pm
by Athnuachan
regensburg wrote:I have ask this Question too and never found out how he is doing miss him too.
Jarkko, now that you're probably back from Hydra, any chance of an update on Bob M ?

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:01 pm
by ritibi
I miss him too. He was playing so cool and jazzy.
Mitch is too mild for me.
Hope Bob can return somedays as Dino too.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:09 pm
by jarkko
I have been asking around but nobody seems to know.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:22 am
by lizzytysh
Oh, dear... thanks, Jarkko.

That doesn't sound like he'll be joining back in on the tour anytime soon.
Maybe 2014?

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:36 am
by jarkko
According to our present knowledge, there are no tour dates scheduled for 2014.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:56 am
by yoeri
But there is no full stop - yet - in your signature for this year, right Jarkko? :D

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:57 pm
by jarkko
Thanks for reminding me... Will add now.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:08 pm
by Tchocolatl
jarkko wrote:According to our present knowledge, there are no tour dates scheduled for 2014.

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson



Wishing Bob Metzger the best, too.

Re: How is Bob Metzger?

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:21 pm
by Hartmut
“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

Woody Allen, 'Without Feathers'