Sam Lugar, the guitarist and lead singer of The Sharks, passed away on Thursday from complications due to lung cancer.
Here's a news article about it:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... m_lug.html
The Sharks used to play in the Altoona area in the '80s, doing several shows at Cisco's (and I believe also at the Coaches Inn, now 30 Something). I think I got to see them once when I was first starting to cover live music.