Slipknot Bassist Dead!

i like their music from time to time, but this is bad news. First Dio and now.....that dude
 
Police are currently investigating the possibility that the guitarists tuned him out of the mix to such a degree that he physically ceased to exist.

Seriously though, sad news for those concerned, but when I think Slipknot my thoughts don't tend to gravitate towards the bass track.
 
Lucid said:
Sad news.

Lousy band.
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^This

I used to like Slipknot back in the day, heck I even still have a Slipknot T-shirt from then, but there's better out there.

It's a shame for the bass player though. Live life in the fast lane and die young eh?
 
Shit month for metal, I'm just waiting to wake up and find out a piano fell on Devin Townsend and killed him, Meshuggah dies in a plane crash and Bring Me The Horizon enters the Hall of Greats.

****ing BmtH

Slipknot may not have been the most awesome band around but I loved the energy of their live shows.
 
Probably got impailed by one of those stupid masks.

But seriously, who is this guy?
 
I was so shattered when I heard this. I feel so sorry for his wife, they were expecting their first child soon.

I love Slipknot & I hope this won't mark the end.

R.I.P Paul, I for one am going to miss you. Stay (sic) maggots.
 
At first I thought baahaha I don't give a shit, then I thought nah wait I guess it is sad, then I thought HANG ON A MINUTE where's all the sympathy and outpouring when genuinely gifted musicians from less mercenary metal bands die tragically? I bet a chunky portion of the people boohoo-ing over this don't even know who Doc from Vader or Vitek from Decapitated were, and that's more sad. Pete Steele from Type O Negative also died last month (but tbh he falls more into the 'I don't give a crap' category).
 
Laivasse said:
At first I thought baahaha I don't give a shit, then I thought nah wait I guess it is sad, then I thought HANG ON A MINUTE where's all the sympathy and outpouring when genuinely gifted musicians from less mercenary metal bands die tragically? I bet a chunky portion of the people boohoo-ing over this don't even know who Doc from Vader or Vitek from Decapitated were, and that's more sad. Pete Steele from Type O Negative also died last month (but tbh he falls more into the 'I don't give a crap' category).
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**** you. Go you're start your own thread about your favourite musicians that are dead. Don't post in this one.

R.I.P Paul.
 
JUL3 said:
**** you. Go you're start your own thread about your favourite musicians that are dead. Don't post in this one.

R.I.P Paul.
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You're just mad because Laivasse would kick your ass if you guys had a metal-battle.
 
I've changed my mind, I think we should have an 'RIP Slipknot's Bassist' subforum, it's that momentous.

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Slipknot had a bassist?
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No, they just have four guys who bang on huge metal cables stretched across the stage. SWISH that would have been mad funny if I'd thought of it two posts ago.
 
Nothing pretentious in bemoaning the fact that the passing of a faceless (in every sense) member of a gimmick band is noticed by many more people than the death of genuine virtuosos in more or less the same field. The guy even got a lengthy obituary in The Guardian, fukcrissakes, which tries to assure the reader that 'The Pig' really could actually play bass, before going on to mention some of the more notable aspects of his career such as the type of mask he wore, how Slipknot are so kerrazy that their fans do kerrazy stuff, and how the clown sniffs a dead crow in a jar. Really puts metal on the map.

sorry, more grief needed: NO PAUL WHYYYY etc
 
lol @ u raging that mainstream media doesn't cover about obscure, more alternative deaths in the music scene.

That would be like if I raged that everybody QQs about Dimebag more than Chuck from Death.
 
Danimal said:
lol @ u raging that mainstream media doesn't cover about obscure, more alternative deaths in the music scene.

That would be like if I raged that everybody QQs about Dimebag more than Chuck from Death.
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damn your edit

Why couldn't you rage about that? Just because you understand how fanboyism and media exploitation works doesn't mean you have to like it.
 
I don't like it, actually.

Though I like to think it's pretty immature trashing the memory of a dead musician and his band just because you're mad that a bunch of assholes in suits up in some metaphorical ivory tower across the ocean decided that a story about The Pig's death is more profitable than a story about the death of Doc or Vitek.
 
Hey, like I say I felt briefly sad, if only a fleeting fart-scent of sadness. But don't worry, for each irreverent word here there's a dozen places on the net where he's being eulogised, I'm sure.
 
There's also a dozen places on the net that think Micheal Jackson was a hologram for the last few decades.
 
not to mention there are also hundreds of places across the net that make a big deal out of chuck or vitek, this place just isn't one of them.

what's the big deal here
 
The big deal appears to be that Slipknot fans aren't happy hearing negativity about their sacred cow despite the fact that they've gained their popularity through a combination of image gimmicks and highly marketable angst. Losing a member in sad circumstances doesn't make them immune to being called out on that, especially since the wider coverage of Gray's death only comes as a consequence of the band's massmarketing. Sorry, but if that's the way you made it to the top, don't expect worldwide reverence in death IMO.

The small deal was that more talented musicians in the same field don't get as much recognition, but nobody was making that out to be an earth shattering revelation.
 
are you lumping ''slipknot fans'' with JUL3 alone and his reply to you, or something else? the guys got all the right to be bitter to you if you come into a thread about a persons death and use it as a place to get your negative opinions of slipknot across and say you don't really care for the guy - obviously he does.

if it's something else, and that may be fans you've seen elsewhere who are taking offense to people being negative about a band they like then bleh, what's new? can i kick up a fuss to you for not coming into the recent thread regarding ISIS' split and tell you to care about what i care about? i think what's happened here is that you have found people who don't know who chuck or vitek or anyone else is and for some reason find that quite offensive. i could probably list off hundreds of guys you might not know of, but i'm not going to be taken back or outright angry if you don't know who they are. some people just... don't follow the same circles as you. :|
 
Obviously JUL3 any anyone else can feel whatever way they want about me, just like I can feel whatever way I want about Slipknot and Pig. Like I pointed out, there are plenty of places to go to if you need a support network that isn't going to tell you what most impartial observers would understand to be the case here: that publicity for Gray's death, like most of Slipknot's publicity, has little to do with contribution to music and a lot to do with the band's unwarranted hype. If someone wanted to be mean and insensitive they could go a lot further than merely calling Slipknot 'gimmicky' or Gray 'faceless' (ie. lacking in identity in terms of his musical role), while still being justified. Some things you just have to take on the chin, considering this isn't a Slipknot fan forum.

The point about unsung musicians is now worn out through repetition and was merely an idle wish to see metal talent get as much recognition as metal fashion. I don't like the way it currently works, apparently Danimal doesn't either, so what? Similarly, if I was crying about a MTV band that was similar to Isis (hypothetically), then why wouldn't you be justified in asking why I didn't give a crap about the split of Isis itself? Or for pointing out that maybe the reason I don't know even know about Isis is the media's shallow fixation with the PR campaign of my own, musically inferior favourites?
 
yeah well, it's mainstream metal. it's expected and i wouldn't want to change it anyway, there are far more important, interesting and unique things happening in metal that don't need the limelight of blabbermouth or the guardian because they'll still be recognized by a proper audience in their respective places and not just the stock public. these things come up maybe a few times more than a RIP thread once a year for chuck will, but in the long run who's going to be remembered more anyway. let him have his little week of coverage and JUL3 and other fans a place to talk about it, i just didn't think this was the right place and time for people who think like you do about the band to really say anything.
 
slipknot bassist dead? damn, his bandmates must really be tongue tied.
 
If there was a topic about VSnares dying or something and somebody came in and said "THAT CLOWN WAS ONLY GOOD FOR ODD-NUMBERED TIME SIGNATURES" or something I might be a tad upset. =P
 
why dont they just get another guy wearing a mask? he played bass ffs, no one would even know
 
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