Totally saddens me to unexpectedly read this news.
Just browsed by E-Mails, our first contact was in March 2005 (almost 20 years ago!), as we traded Roseland Ballroom 00/01 for Reading 2003 DVDs. Back when we sent DVDs by snail mail over the Atlantic ocean and they occasionally got lost along the way. Many trades and conversations on MSN messenger followed. I got most of my 2001-03 lossless shows from him back then, and probably many more in the years after that I can't remember.
It was a great time in the trading community between 2004-2008+ and he was such a valuable and knowledgable member whom we all respected very much, and ever since. My condolences to his family and everyone who knew him and was lucky enough to meet him in person. Reading this thread, I think his importance for the LP community in the past 20+ years cannot be emphasized enough.