The surviving members of Gwar and their extended family have released the following video statement regarding the passing of their frontman Dave Brockie (aka Oderus Urungus). In it they also reveal the launch of the Dave Brockie Foundation:
“The Dave Brockie Foundation is a charity fund with the mission of promoting the advancement of music, images, letters and performances in the arts. It will endeavor to encourage promising talents, as well as preserving the legacy of Dave‘s body of works. It intends to be a support system to those who have dedicated their lives in pursuit of creativity.
The Dave Brockie Foundation will be a resource for artists in the fields of music, film, literature and all visual arts who cannot find funding through mainstream channels. The DBF will also strive to catalog and preserve Dave‘s vast collection of original images, recordings and written words, and make them available for the world to appreciate.
The foundation’s first goal is to finance the creation of a memorial monument in Richmond, Virginia to provide the world with a place to pay respects to the memory of a very cherished man.”
Donations to the foundation can be made at Gwar.net. Brockie passed away Sunday, March 23rd at the age of 50. His cause of death has yet to be determined. A public memorial for Brockie will be held at Hadad’s Lake in Richmond, VA on August 15th, a day prior to the annual ‘Gwar-B-Q‘ event.
