{"id":10856,"date":"2009-11-04T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2009-11-04T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T03:23:17","slug":"famed-rock-photographer-jeff-findley-dead-at-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10856","title":{"rendered":"Famed Rock Photographer Jeff Findley Dead At 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images02\/102\/m_79b03d591ecf487f8b138050398a2bb0.jpg\" alt=\"jeff\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe heavy music world has just lost one of its giants. Photographer Jeff Findley &#8211; the man responsible for shooting rock photos for just about every rock band imaginable (VAN HALEN, DIO, LYNCH MOB, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, KISS, etc..) from the 80\u2018s and onward, sadly passed away this past Monday, November 2nd, 2009. The cause of death is not yet known.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJeff was perhaps most well known for shooting all of the photos for THE METAL DEN.com\u2019s acclaimed<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?categoryid=1&#038;p2_articleid=3564\">2007 tribute article<\/a> to late OZZY guitarist Randy Rhoads, which is regularly featured at Blabbermouth.net.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>TMD\u2019s creator, rock journalist Randy \u201cRocket\u201d Cody comments:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cFor once, I am at a loss for words. I would like for every single hard rock<br \/>\nmusic lover that is reading these words to raise your horns in salute to the<br \/>\nworld\u2019s greatest rock n roll photographer of them all: Jeff Findley! His work<br \/>\nin rock photography will live on forever and I cannot speak to what an<br \/>\nincredible loss this is for all of us. God speed, brother. Save me a spot at<br \/>\nthe \u2018Tavern In The Sky\u2019!\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/fire019.gif\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/l_6e61f475ea684df6b427167f3f1593b4.jpg\" alt=\"jeff1\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfindley.com\/\">http:\/\/www.jfindley.com\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy music world has just lost one of its giants. Photographer Jeff Findley &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}