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News of the local musician’s death broke on Saturday; memorial plans are forthcoming
Bela Koe-Krompecher
I first met Bob Petric at Larry’s, that esteemed, long-gone gathering place for all things underground. Craig Regala, who founded Datapanik records, introduced us as he was showing Bob the test pressing for Bob’s intense, UK post-punk inspired band Girly Machine. Bob was only a few years older than me, but I knew who he was by reputation. While he was not so much a showman on guitar, his dare I use the term “chops were towering. His sound melded the playing of Eddie Van Halen and Richard Lloyd with the blue-collar work ethic of Strongsville, Ohio, and he could wreck the night for any act that followed, no matter what band he was playing with.