Thought the same thing. Was following his sale, no bids from me.Well that sucks. He was just in the news recently at the end of June, because he was going to auction his legendary 59 Les Paul aka The Beast but withdrew it at the last second. He must've almost knew something was going with his health.
Founding member of WhiteSnake and wrote a lot of the now classic riffs. But he was also involved with UFO pre-Michael Schenker. RIP, Bernie!