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Aaron Edge of Lumbar Fractures Vertebra; Fundraiser Launched for Medical Expenses

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I try not to spend too much of other people’s money, because I know it’s a finite resource and because it is for me as well. However, we are also fortunate enough to live in an age where even passing off a couple bucks here 5and there can genuinely make a difference in someone’s existence. I’ve known Aaron Edge for years now. He’s someone whose work has directly inspired me — when I started a label years back, it was because Aaron basically called me up and told me to so I could put out the Roareth record he’d written and played on — and someone who continues to inspire.

Everything with corporeal presence is physical, but I’ve known few who’ve made the most of that in the way Aaron has. A distance runner in years past, vehement stage presence in more bands than I think even he could remember if you asked and a mountain biker even after his 2013 diagnosis with MS, Aaron was able to channel physical anguish into devastating sonic and emotional heft on Lumbar‘s The First and Last Days of Unwelcome (review here; interview here), having written and recorded the instruments himself and collaborated with YOB‘s Mike Scheidt on vocals and Tad Doyle on recording to create one of the most powerful heavy records of the last five years. More than that, it was a testament to the sheer indomitable spirit that drives Aaron — confirmation of the fact that he simply would not be stopped.

While mountain biking on Friday, May 29, Aaron had a bad accident on a trail. He was airlifted to the hospital where he was told his recovery would be three to six months. The T6 vertebra in his back was fractured. Life put Aaron on his ass once again, but if history has shown anything it’s that Aaron only knows how to get back up and keep fighting. The truth is, Aaron will be back out there one way or another. Fractured vertebra, MS, cartoon piano falling on his head — whatever it might be, there’s no keeping him down. This too will be channeled, contorted into something from which he’ll only come back stronger. And that process will be that much easier with as much support as possible.

So yes, I’m spending your money. A GoFundMe has been launched to help Aaron with medical expenses from his stay at the hospital, and you can and should donate below:

Last Friday, while test riding a full suspension mountain bike amongst redwood trees, I fell off on a technical course and landed hard on my back. I couldn’t move or stand and was in lots of pain, I was airlifted via helicopter to a San Jose hospital soon after.

Tests and scans were done: my back is broken, specifically my T6 vertebrae.

I’m in a huge brace for a few months and in bad shape, mentally and of course physically. For those of you who already found out, thank you for the texts, messages and emails. — Aaron of Lumbar

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