RIP Chris Foley || January 31, 2007

Sad news for old Dallas music fans, as word comes to us from an old friend that Transona Five's Chris Foley recently passed away. Though no specific details were available at the former band's MySpace page, Dallas-area acts had already hopped on the page's blog to offer their remembrances of the member of the Denton-based space-rock quintet. Here's a better explanation from our pal Michael Chamy:

Foley, as far as I know, was most recently and perhaps still in Austin's very good melodic shoegaze dream/pop group the Swells (circa 2000 to either present or recently, though I think Foley was only in the group the past couple years, though I am not certain), but much more noted in DFW and Texas at large for being a core member of the great slowcore space-pop outfit of the late 90s, Transona Five (circa 1995 to 2000) ... not sure if they were technically from Ft. Worth, Denton or elsewhere in DFW .... but they made some serious waves around here at some point, especially at the end of the Denton space rock thing (they were kinda closer to Comet & Bedhead though) .... they were on the Austin label Sandwich Records, and I think they may have even moved to Boston or something, perhaps causing their demise.

Details about the passing are scarce, other than this post from Stephen Thurman of the Swells: "On Sunday, Jan. 28, we found out that our bass player Chris Foley was found dead in a hotel room. We don't have all the details yet, but the police do not think it was foul-play. Foley was a great bass player and an even better friend. We will forever miss him." We offer our condolences to Foley's friends and family. -SM