Vancouver punk pioneer Randy Rampage rocked so hard, members of the city's music scene say he helped define the hardcore genre.
A memorial will be held next month for the peroxide-blond headbanger, who as the founding bassist of D.O.A., is widely cited among the "founders" of hardcore punk.
But those closest to Randall Desmond Archibald, as the musician was legally known, say he was a hell-raiser with a "heart of gold."
Susanne Tabata, Archibald's partner of more than a decade, says the 58-year-old died in their Vancouver home on Aug. 14 of an apparent heart attack.
Tabata says the longtime longshoreman and former frontman of thrash-metal band Annihilator was selfless as both a person and a performer.
On-again-off-again D.O.A. band-mate Joe Keithley says Archibald's high-octane sound and onstage acrobatics helped put Vancouver's punk scene on the map.
