associated_acts death_date death_place years_active alias label article_title background birth_date instrument genre origin birth_name occupation
aduck , cyberaktif , the tear garden , voice , hilt , skinny puppy , psyche , doubting thomas 23 august 1995 edmonton , alberta 1981 - 1995 aduck subconscious communications , nettwerk records dwayne goettel
 non_vocal_instrumentalist 1 february 1964 keyboards guitar , drums , trumpet , synthesizer , sampler , guitar , bass industrial , techno canada dwayne rudolph goettel musician
dwayne goettel

dwayne rudolph goettel -lrb- february 1 , 1964august 23 , 1995 -rrb- was a member of the industrial band skinny puppy .
classically trained , 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 during the recording of '' '' -lrb- mid-1986 -rrb- when he was recruited to take wilhelm schroeder 's place .
goettel 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 .
despite being best known for playing keyboards and synthesizers with skinny puppy , his first instrument was the trumpet , which he played in his high school band , before moving to edmonton , where he began learning piano and became involved with the local music scene .
he was also a competent drummer , guitarist and bassist .
goettel formed subconscious records in 1993 to release a 12 '' single -lrb- split with friend phil western -rrb- under the pseudonym duck .
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 .
while in the band psyche , he was recruited by guitar player maury duchamp to join a band called voice that was formed with the remnants of the band office , singer malcolm swann and bass player jeff sawatzky with the addition of drummer sherri leigh iwaschuk , formerly with the reverb angels .
voice recorded a 4 song e.p. for switch records in 1985 called ` anno di voce ' and performed on a battle of the bands tv show that aired on cbc .
voice survived for a few years in the mid-eighties and gained significant popularity in alberta .
water was a side project during the voice years that dwayne formed with a singer , mandy cousins .
