Jam Band Legend COL. BRUCE HAMPTON Collapses Onstage DEAD AT 70 Band Keeps Playing. Video

A super popular musician in Atlanta collapsed onstage Monday as the crowd celebrated his 70th birthday.

Col. Bruce Hampton — known as the Granddaddy of the Jam Scene — was in the middle of an encore — “Turn on Your Lovelight” — when he suddenly collapsed onstage.

The band kept playing, as if nothing happened … people thought it was all part of the performance.

Sadly, it wasn’t. When people realized it was for real, Hampton was rushed to a hospital where he died.

RIP.