Slipknot bassist found dead

[Bob Impact]

http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/05/24/slipknot-bassist-paul-gray-found-dead/

Not that I'm the worlds biggest Slipknot fan (first album and the latest album where very good though) but this is still a shame, I think he's also the one that got into some DUI troubles a few years back.

[torker]

Paul Gray, bassist with the heavy metal band Slipknot, was found dead in a hotel room in Urbandale, Iowa, today. Police do not suspect foul play, the Associated Press is reporting. A hotel employee found the 38-year-old musician in the room. An autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow. Urbandale is a suburb of Des Moines, where most of the band grew up. Slipknot, which formed in 1995, is known for wearing grotesque masks while performing. The band's first album sold more than a million copies.

http://www.islandcrisis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/paulgray.jpg

I nearly posted him in the Random Dead Person, went Music News (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?p=2720879#post2720879)instead, you went balls deep with a RonFez.Net thread. Aces.

[Hottub]

:sad:Fuck!!!

[Barnaby Jones]

The Guru thread gets merged but this asshole is going to keep his own!

RACIST MODS!

[Bob Impact]

The Guru thread gets merged but this asshole is going to keep his own!

RACIST MODS!

Meh, they're albums sell well, they've won a grammy and I honestly really enjoyed the last live show of theirs I saw, I say give him a thread.

[Hottub]

Meh, they're albums sell well, they've won a grammy and I honestly really enjoyed the last live show of theirs I saw, I say give him a thread.

So let it be written
So let it be done

http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/2/3/3/4233.jpg&ei=PSb7S4ehLsL58AaZ99G4Dg&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNFCCdHVZGb0Eo0zxxoHsUL3qChWVg

[fezident]

I used to think I hated that band but, I saw some concert footage somewhere on deep cable not too long ago and they were amazingly tight.
It was amazing that, through all the chaos & mayhem of their live show, they were such a cohesive unit.

Any member of that band would be hard to replace.

[underdog]

I used to think I hated that band but, I saw some concert footage somewhere on deep cable not too long ago and they were amazingly tight.
It was amazing that, through all the chaos & mayhem of their live show, they were such a cohesive unit.

Any member of that band would be hard to replace.

I was absolutely blown away by them live.

[Barnaby Jones]

I was absolutely blown by the the one wearing the mask!

[Chigworthy]

I was absolutely blown away by them live.

I saw them open up for Coal Chamber in a very tiny club. Coal Chamber bitched out, so they effectively headlined the show, and rightfully so. They were amazing live; on a stage crowded with two other bands' gear, they had about 12' square of space. The energy they put out was something to behold. Out by the tour bus, some of the guys were hanging out with the kids for a little bit, being really cool and covering for Coal Chamber not playing because of a security issue. Their first album was pretty amazing and original for the time.

[underdog]

I saw them open up for Coal Chamber in a very tiny club. Coal Chamber bitched out, so they effectively headlined the show, and rightfully so. They were amazing live; on a stage crowded with two other bands' gear, they had about 12' square of space. The energy they put out was something to behold. Out by the tour bus, some of the guys were hanging out with the kids for a little bit, being really cool and covering for Coal Chamber not playing because of a security issue. Their first album was pretty amazing and original for the time.

I've been a fan of all their albums, but always avoided their shows because of their fans. They toured with Coheed and Cambria, so we finally bought tickets to one of their shows and the fucking energy coming from the crowd prior to Slipknot coming on and carrying into their show was unbelievable. I've never felt anything at a show like that in my life.

[StanUpshaw]

I saw them at a festival when I was like 13 and accidentally ended up in the mosh pit with a herd of their paint huffing idiot fans.

You see, I was up near the stage watching Nerf Herder and when I saw the paramedics behind me clearing a path, I thought it was because someone was hurt, not that they were delineating the mosh pit.

They started playing, the black t-shirts began moshing, and only thing that kept me on my feet is that I was hit on all four sides at the same time.

So now I feel like justice has been served.

[Judge Smails]

Somewhere, in a home for the mentally challenged, Moshin has been put on suicide watch.

[MetalChild]

I am not a fan of Slipknot never actually got into them, but when I read the article in BBC what shocked me was that Slipknot has 9 members. WTF?????

9 members, really?

this is taken from BBC news
"The nine members of Slipknot wore masks in public and referred to other bandmates by numbers; Gray was number two."

How is that any different from any other day for them?

[Chigworthy]

I am not a fan of Slipknot never actually got into them, but when I read the article in BBC what shocked me was that Slipknot has 9 members. WTF?????

9 members, really?

this is taken from BBC news
"The nine members of Slipknot wore masks in public and referred to other bandmates by numbers; Gray was number two."

How is that any different from any other day for them?

You're question doesn't make any sense.

[MetalChild]

You're question doesn't make any sense.

thats what people say when I stop talking.

[tbagnu]

Rest In Peace!!..may you now be in Valhalla with Ronnie James Dio and together you may "raise your fists to the metal child'!!!!

[Snoogans]

i wont lie. they played tatoo the earth at Giants Stadium in the one show Metallica decided to show up for, and they pissed all over Metallica. They ended up stealing the entire show at that concert, though aside from metallica, its not really hard to steal a show from Hed pe or Sevendust

Hatebreed and biohazard owned the fuckin show but they were stuck outside

[realmenhatelife]

Noone knows this guy's name or what he looks like and he's the bass player in a pretty marginal band. This really didn't get merged?

[Chigworthy]

Noone knows this guy's name or what he looks like and he's the bass player in a pretty marginal band. This really didn't get merged?

Define marginal without interjecting your personal opinion of the band.

[realmenhatelife]

Define marginal without interjecting your personal opinion of the band.

Belonging to a really watered down genre and breaking during what was probably the beginning of the end for said genre atleast in its present incarnation. Not mainstream enough to cross over on the popular side, not artistically striking enough to crossover on the critical side. Gimick appeal (and not to say they're a gimmick band they're still wearing costumes.)

I dont want to bust anyones balls who is legitmately emotionally upset by this, I respect that, but speaking objectively heres a picture of a guy in a mask, we're not talking about him by name but by the role he played in the band, most people that dont listen to metal have no idea who slipknot is, and I'll bet if you said this guys name to even a lot of metal fans they wouldn't know who he is- Isn't that the definition of "random dead guy?"

[CountryBob]

So does Slipknot play country or western?

[red_red_red]

So does Slipknot play country or western?
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg209/jasonstites333/cool%20gif/MadMenSlap.gif

[CountryBob]

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg209/jasonstites333/cool%20gif/MadMenSlap.gif

He He - that made me laugh!

[torker]

...we're not talking about him by name but by the role he played in the band
...Isn't that the definition of "random dead guy?"

RIPhttp://richstillwell.com/RF/sigs/GPBJR.gif:sad:

[Tommy Marbles]

Slipknot's produced some of the most emotionally striking harmonies and lyrics in rock over the course of the last decade and change. They're a tad on the strange side and Id be frightened to attend a concert but their music is tremendous RIP

[red_red_red]

Slipknot's produced some of the most emotionally striking harmonies and lyrics in rock over the course of the last decade and change. They're a tad on the strange side and Id be frightened to attend a concert but their music is tremendous RIP
i've been to several of their concerts
why would you be frightened?

do you smoke? i bet you smoke

[Suspect Chin]

I wonder if he'll wear the mask in the coffin.

[realmenhatelife]

I wonder if he'll wear the mask in the coffin.

It really wouldn't be up to him.

[Suspect Chin]

It really wouldn't be up to him.

We don't know what his last will and testament requests.