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Members of Dead Moon in an undated photograph. From left are Fred Cole, Toody Cole and Andrew Loomis. They remained beloved local stars despite being decades older than their peers in Northwest grunge rock.
Willem Koolvort; thumbnail, szim (Simone Mueller), 2016
Fred Cole
Died on November 9, 2017 at age 69
A guitarist and singer, Mr. Cole became a cult hero of the Pacific Northwest music scene as the leader of the long-running garage-rock band Dead Moon.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.