According to WTOP, D.C. punk rocker Vance Bockis, member of local punk and metal bands THE OBSESSED, THE FACTORY, 9353, and PENTAGRAM, died Saturday at age 50.
Bockis, a popular fixture in the scene, had rotator cuff surgery Thursday and died at the Fairfax County home he shared with his wife Linda Leisz Bockis, apparently of a blood clot. “Vance was clean and sober for almost six and a half years,†Leisz Bockis told WTOP. “He was so thrilled with his life being sober,†she added. Bockis‘s musical career and recovery was the subject of a 2010 documentary, 'Shiftâ€.
"I should be dead or I should be in prison", Bockis said in the film.
A service for Bockis will be held Thursday, September 13 at 6 p.m. at Fairfax County Memorial Funeral Home (9902 Braddock Road, Fairfax).