Dave Ling

O encarte em “Live In Montreux 2010” (2011), q trata da apresentação em si e circunstâncias, descreve em seus últimos parágrafos o falecimento, planos interrompidos e como Moore se via no mundo da música.

Escrito/assinado por Dave Ling, jornalista inglês da revista Classic Rock:

“Tragically, Moore died of a heart attack during a getaway break in Spain on 6 February, 2011 – seven months to the day after this Montreux gig.

The world of music was stricken with grief. There were tributes from Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor, Scott Gorham, Glenn Hughes, Zakk Wylde, and Bryan Adams and many more, even from the realm of extreme metal thanks to Opeth‘s Mikael Åkerfeldt. When Europe played at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London shortly afterwards, their guitarist John Norum offered an affectionate rendition of ‘The Loner’, the Max Middleton song that Gary had recorded to such emotional effect on ‘Wild Frontier’. Neil Carter, who only the previous summer had reconnected with Moore through the teaching of music at a school attended by all three of the latter’s children, was especially distraught.

‘We were due to go into the studio next week. Gary had some ideas for an album – a Celtic rock album – and we were going to start working on those’. Neil informed Classic Rock, referring to the likes of ‘Days Of Heroes’, ‘Where Are You Now’ and ‘Oh Wild One’. ‘I hesitate to use the word genius but there was something otherwordly about Gary. He was a truly gifted individual. I shall miss him a lot’.

Though the likes of Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett, Vivian Campbell Of Def Leppard and the late Randy Rhoads (of Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet fame) and more have all cited his playing as an influence upon their own techniques, the 58-year-old was a modest and unassumng man – especially so during the final years of his life.

‘I don’t think I’m undervalued (as an artist); I’ve had all the accolades that I could wish for’ he told me back in July 2006. ‘I’ve felt overrated sometimes, not underrated. Being called a legend makes me cringe’.

Well, now there’s very little choice in the matter…“