[direwolf74]

Fully Completely producer Chris Tsangarides has passed away.

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Chris Tsangarides–who produced such albums as Thin Lizzy’s Thunder and Lightning, Gary Moore’s Back on the Streets, and the Tragically Hip’s Fully Completely–died of heart failure today after battling pneumonia.

He was only 61.

Tsangarides, who specialized in hard rock, had also worked on albums by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tygers of Pan Tang, Anvil, Girlschool, Helloween, and Concrete Blonde, to name a few.

Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi expressed his feelings on Tsangarides’ death on his Facebook page:

“I’m so saddened to hear of the passing of the Producer Chris Tsangarides – he has been a part of my life since the 70s when he worked as tape operator on the Sabbath album Sabotage and he’s worked with me on lots of other albums and stuff. What a lovely bloke he was and we always got on really well and had a great laugh too! He’ll be sadly missed. RIP my friend.”

[Joe]

Damn. RIP.

[edgoffin]

The Hip worked with producers who had incredible resumes

[potsie]

The Hip worked with producers who had incredible resumes

Indeed. Through their producers there is only one or two degrees of separation between them and nearly every major rock act of the past 40 years.

[direwolf74]

From Rob on Twitter:

Rob Baker‏
@tthbaker

So sad to hear of the passing of Chris Tsangarides. He produced Fully Completely for us. We chose him in part because of his stellar work w Concrete Blonde but also for his enthusiasm. He was a lovely guy - a true gentleman.

6:22 AM - 8 Jan 2018