It deeply saddens me to tell you that legendary bass player and friend Paul Raven died yesterday morning of a heart failure in Geneva Switzerland at around 6am . Paul and myself were invited to play on the new Treponem Pal album in Geneva for a week.After a long day of recording the band went out for drinks to celebrate Paul..s arrival and reminisce .We then went back to the house we were staying and I went to bed the other guys stayed up . I found Raven a sleep in a chair the next morning in the living room.I thought nothing of it as Raven would sleep like this on the tour bus in the front lounge all the time.Then I looked closer at him and he looked very grey .I checked his pulse and there was none.I yelled for the other guys in the band .We immediately did some CPR and called for an ambulance .Medics arrived quickly but after an hour of trying to get his heart beat back they could not save him. They said he died in his sleep probably around 6 a.m. it was then 9:30 a.m. Marco and myself have been contacting his family all day yesterday.I..m assuming a funeral service will be held in Wolverhampton U.K. where his family live and his birth place. We made a lot of great music together. Words cant describe how I feel right now I..m devastated.He will be missed by many.He was the king of the one liners. Please send Raven and his family love and light. Ted PAUL RAVEN 1959-2007 LOVE AND LIGHT MY BROTHER