Dwayne Goettel
Dwayne Rudolph Goettel (
February 1 1964 -
August 23 1995) was a member of the
industrial band
Skinny Puppy. He played keyboards for an early incarnation of the Canadian
gothic/
synthpop band
Psyche, as well as a band called Water, who opened for
Skinny Puppy in 1985. He joined
Skinny Puppy sometime during the recording of
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (mid-1986) when
Wilhelm Schroeder left the band. He would come to be
cEvin Key's primary partner in forming
Skinny Puppy's music until the album
The Process, as well as in their side projects
Doubting Thomas,
Cyberaktif,
The Tear Garden and
Hilt.
Goettel formed
Subconcious Records in 1993 to release a 12" single (split with friend
Phil Western) under the pseudonym
aDuck. During the following year, the frustrations of recording
The Process led to the formation of
Download with Key, Western and
Mark Spybey during improvisations during late-night jam sessions.
Goettel died of an apparent
heroin overdose in a bathroom at his parents' home in
Edmonton, Alberta on
August 23,
1995. As a bandmate told
Rolling Stone Magazine, Goettel had just returned to his parents' house to kick his habit.
Download's first album
Furnace and Skinny Puppy's album
The Process were both released dedicated to his memory.
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