QUEENSRŸCHE Backing Singer PAMELA MOORE Mourns Loss Of Audio Engineer

July 20, 2009

Tom Pfaeffle, a live concert audio mixer who has worked with such bands as NIRVANA, QUEENSRŸCHE, AEROSMITH and THE BLACK CROWES, was shot and killed Friday night (July 17) while vacationing with his wife in Eastern Washington, according to NWCN.com.

Police Chief Rick Balam tells KING 5 Pfaeffle apparently tried to use his hotel key in the wrong door at the Blue Spruce Hotel in Twisp, and the 57-year-old suspect shot him in the upper chest through the door. Pfaeffle died two hours later at a hospital.

A second bullet passed through a wall and almost hit another person at the hotel, Balam added.

The suspect, whose name has not been released, is booked in jail on second degree murder as well as assault. Police are still investigating a motive.

Pfaeffle, who ran The Tank Studio out of Black Diamond, Wash., was "professionally active in the recording, touring and sound reinforcement industry for more than 30 years," according to his studio biography. He worked as a live sound engineer with bands "including NIRVANA, THE BLACK CROWES, GREAT WHITE, HEART, QUEENSRŸCHE, SCORPIONS, UB40, AEROSMITH, ALICE COOPER, RODNEY CROWELL, B.B. KING and countless others."

Singer Pamela Moore, who is best known for her performance as Sister Mary on QUEENSRŸCHE's 1988 epic release "Operation: Mindcrime" and 2006's sequel "Operation: Mindcrime II", stated, "Violence has touched our lives in the music industry. Mr. Tom Pfaeffle, our dear friend and amazing sound engineer's life was taken, suddenly!! We will never know what really happened but this I can tell you, Tom Pfaeffle left his legacy in a business he loved and dedicated his life to for many years. He taught his craft to up and coming sound engineers and he always put 110 percent into everything he did! I had the privilege of working with Tom and he always had that gift of knowing what to do to make my performance shine!!"

Watch a KOMO News report on Tom Pfaeffle's tragic death below.

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