He DIED On Stage w/ Carl Ruiz - Best and Last Year of Radio
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Gregg "Opie" Hughes
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | OB Radio is back. |
| 0:04.2 | Jam band icon. Colonel Bruce Hampton dies after collapsing on stage at a 70th birthday concert. |
| 0:10.6 | This is crazy. Did you see the video before they took it down? He rocked? |
| 0:13.7 | No, I kept seeing on the news, they would show clips of him on stage, but they never were showing the actual keeling over and dying. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, a jam band icon. I guess he's huge in that world. I don't know. Did you ever hear of |
| 0:27.7 | Bruce Hampton before? No. Died after collapsing on stage during a birthday concert in his honor |
| 0:32.7 | at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Hampton, a 70-year-old guitarist and singer known as the grandfather |
| 0:37.3 | of the jam band scene, died after and singer known as the grandfather of the |
| 0:37.8 | jam band scene, died after collapsing Monday night at the end of the show, billed as Hampton |
| 0:42.2 | 70, a celebration of Colonel Bruce Hampton. It looks like Steve Bannon. He does a bit. I love how |
| 0:48.8 | it says Monday night at the end of the show. Wouldn't that be the end of the show? That was the big |
| 0:53.5 | finale. That was the big finale. |
| 0:57.9 | That was the walk-on encore. But to be honest, the guy laid there for, Paul was telling me for about 10 minutes. The video I |
| 1:01.9 | saw that continued playing as he just, he just slowly got down to his |
| 1:06.0 | like knees. We have a cell phone video. Ah, this is just terrible. |
| 1:11.8 | Who's Harry Chrome? That was the movie I was thinking about. Yeah, okay. Hold on, let me let these guys, we're about to show the video of the guy dying at a 70th birthday party. Let's do it. Opie. What? It's going on your Twitter. What? Go on your Twitter. Oh, yeah. Why? What happened? I got a nice. |
| 1:26.1 | It's bad news. |
| 1:27.4 | What happens? |
| 1:28.3 | Just go. |
| 1:28.7 | I just tweeted you right now. |
| 1:30.4 | It's bad, yeah. Why, what happened? I got a good. It's bad news. What? Seriously, just go. I just, I tweeted you right now. It's bad, bro. Look at it. Oh, my God. What's that going on? Downstairs here. They're here. They hurt us. Why are they here? They're here in numbers. |
| 1:45.3 | It's about four or five of them. |
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