{"id":686539,"date":"2026-03-27T22:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/686539\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:53:16","slug":"ross-the-boss-of-manowar-fame-dead-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/686539\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross the Boss of Manowar Fame Dead at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sad news dropped this afternoon when it was reported that Ross the Boss Friedman passed away after a battle with ALS. Ross rose to fame as the guitarist of the influential 70s punk rock act <strong>The Dictators<\/strong>, and later he joined <strong>Manowar<\/strong>, where his heroic guitar playing shaped the band\u2019s sound on iconic albums like Hail to England, Into Glory Ride, and Kings of Metal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After leaving <strong>Manowar<\/strong> following 1988s, Kings of Metal, Ross founded <strong>Ross the Boss<\/strong>, releasing 4 albums with his eponymous act, as well as playing on 4 albums by <strong>Death Dealer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-234018 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ross-the-Boss-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in February of this year, Ross announced he had been diagnosed wth ALS, and now so soon after, that awful disease has claimed his life. Because I was a huge <strong>Manowar<\/strong> fan growing up, I always idolized Ross and loved his style of playing. He had an epic flair that helped make <strong>Manowar<\/strong> the true metal champions they were, and no one sounded like him. I feel blessed I got to see him <strong>Manowar<\/strong> several times in the 80s, and more recently when he did a small tour playing a full set of <strong>Manowar<\/strong> classics with a few friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This feels like a huge loss to the metal community. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. Ride into glory, Ross. You won\u2019t be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGive in to Your Anger:\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/cryptworm-infectious-pathological-waste-review\/\" rel=\"prev nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cryptworm \u2013 Infectious Pathological Waste Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sad news dropped this afternoon when it was reported that Ross the Boss Friedman passed away after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":686540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[12086,89874,288095,171,252350,975,288096,288097,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-686539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-12086","tag-blog-post","tag-death-dealer","tag-entertainment","tag-manowar","tag-music","tag-ross-the-boss","tag-ross-the-boss-of-manowar-fame-dead-at-72","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116303600600230592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}