RIP: Bill Bartell a.k.a. Pat Fear of White Flag | Music News | Tiny Mix Tapes

From The Press-Enterprise: With his Flying V guitar and always-present mustache, William “Bill” Bartell, better known as Pat Fear, made his mark on music in the Inland Empire and beyond. Bartell founded White Flag in the early 1980s in Sunnymead, before the area became incorporporated as part of Moreno Valley. White Flag took the ideals of the burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene and turned them upside down in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. The singer and guitarist was found dead in his Moreno Vall

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