Bob Biggs, the 74-year-old founder of Los Angeles independent label Slash Records, died on Saturday morning due to complications from his long battle suffering from Lewy body dementia, according to Slash’s former publicist Susan Clary.
He is survived by his wife, Kim, and his son, Monty. A visual artist born in Whittier, California, Biggs worked with punk rock magazineSlash, published by Steve Samiof, Melanie Nissen, Claude Bessy and Philomena, in 1997 before founding Slash Records in 1978, an independent label that originally specialized in local Los Angeles punk rock bands and launched the careers of seminal bands Germs and X.
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