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Slipknot bassist found dead
« on: May 24, 2010, 03:31:36 PM »
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-slipknotbassistde,0,2400994.story

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DES MOINES, Iowa
Police say the bassist for the Iowa metal band Slipknot has been found dead in a suburban Des Moines hotel room.

Urbandale police say a hotel employee found 38-year-old Paul Dedrick Gray dead in a room at the Town Plaza Hotel. Foul play wasn't suspected.

The Polk County Medical Examiner's Office plans an autopsy Tuesday.

Most Slipknot members grew up in the Des Moines area. The band, known for its grotesque masks, released its first album in 1999. It sold more than 1 million copies.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 03:43:06 PM »
I...honestly am not sure what to say, other than RIP, and my prayers go out to his wife and family.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2010, 03:43:28 PM »
Good lord what's with all these band members dying?

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2010, 03:44:35 PM »
I await more news before I make much of any comment.

Much of any comment more than "rock n roll".

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2010, 03:58:57 PM »
Well, it's on wikipedia, I'm guessing it might be true.

Not a massive Slipknot fan but this is very sad.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2010, 04:02:12 PM »
As a huge Slipknot fan for many years, I'm torn up by this. I am the owner of #slipknot on an mIRC server, and have always had a special thing for the band. Being through a lot of shit, the lyrics always helped.


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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2010, 04:03:05 PM »
inb4 they get John Myung.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2010, 04:03:10 PM »
By the way, I mean my comment in a "these things tend to happen in the rock/metal music business, and it's sadly believable that that could be the case", not in a "FUCK YEAH" sense.

Thought I should clarify that.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2010, 04:06:09 PM »
Well, it's on wikipedia, I'm guessing it might be true.

Hate to be a burster of bubbles, but this made me laugh.

RIP bass dude. I want to know how he died.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2010, 04:20:43 PM »
Well, it's on wikipedia, I'm guessing it might be true.

Hate to be a burster of bubbles, but this made me laugh.

RIP bass dude. I want to know how he died.

drug overdose apparently


and yes, I see how ridiculous that wiki comment sounds but I meant that when deaths are on locked wikipedia pages that normally means they are true
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2010, 04:47:10 PM »
They say deaths come in threes.  Hopefully this is the third and final for a while (The Rev, Dio, this dude).

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2010, 04:49:38 PM »
They say deaths come in threes.  Hopefully this is the third and final for a while (The Rev, Dio, this dude).

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Pete Steele as well...
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 04:51:40 PM »
The Rev was quite a while ago.

Plus, that's drummer, singer, bassist. If we get a guitarist, maybe then God will cease with the life-ending shenanigans.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2010, 05:26:23 PM »
RIP Paul Gray
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2010, 07:32:10 PM »
If we get a guitarist, maybe then God will cease with the life-ending shenanigans.

Lock Petrucci in a safe room until a guitarist OTHER than him dies.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2010, 07:32:30 PM »
wow this is very sad. I have like their music. RIP

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2010, 07:34:29 PM »
inb4 they get John Myung.

I was actually thinking this, considering MP joined up with A7X. :lol

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2010, 08:01:07 PM »
My friend is pretty torn up about this.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2010, 03:51:06 AM »
R.I.P. Paul

A great bass player, with plenty of interesting tunings throughout the career. Slipknot is an excellent band, the first metal band I've ever listened to, so they pretty much changed my life. If I haven't discovered Duality back in 2004, I seriously doubt I would be where I am today. Too bad the band lost an important member...

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2010, 06:29:11 AM »
bummer.....I expected it to be some mountain climbing expedition accident....where one of his ropes had a knot.......slip.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2010, 06:35:56 AM »
mask induced obstruction of air ways?
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2010, 06:37:55 AM »
The end for Slipknot?
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2010, 06:43:21 AM »
Hopefully not. They still got much more to offer.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2010, 06:59:12 AM »
RIP, hope they don't break up because of this.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2010, 01:59:45 AM »
bummer.....I expected it to be some mountain climbing expedition accident....where one of his ropes had a knot.......slip.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2010, 04:35:47 AM »
I think there should be a bit more respect shown in this thread, this has obviously devestated a lot of people. Whether you like the band or not a genuinely great guy has died, leaving a wife, family and many close friends behind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrcfdgJhcgk

This press conference with the band members really makes it hit home.

"Once he had forests and mountains that were only his - listening to him. Once he would run through the summer days catching memories for ages to come. Now he is dressing this naked floor with his flesh and blood, and time passes by. His trade of pain might just have lead him to deal with consequence for some change as time passes by"

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2010, 05:24:17 AM »
I think there should be a bit more respect shown in this thread, this has obviously devestated a lot of people. Whether you like the band or not a genuinely great guy has died, leaving a wife, family and many close friends behind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrcfdgJhcgk

This press conference with the band members really makes it hit home.



Moving stuff.  A sad thing, he was obviously very loved, and by the sounds, Slipknot's future may be in doubt.

RIP Paul.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #27 on: May 30, 2010, 01:37:22 PM »
The other day, I was at guitar center and saw a lady wearing a Slipknot hoody. On the back it read "WE DON'T DIE".







I began laughing for 5 straight minutes.















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I felt its length in quite a few places.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #28 on: May 30, 2010, 02:21:04 PM »
haha?

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #29 on: May 30, 2010, 02:33:40 PM »
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #30 on: May 30, 2010, 02:34:03 PM »
I felt its length in quite a few places.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #31 on: May 30, 2010, 04:01:26 PM »
The other day, I was at guitar center and saw a lady wearing a Slipknot hoody. On the back it read "WE DON'T DIE".







I began laughing for 5 straight minutes.















Sometimes I can be a terrible, terrible person.
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #32 on: May 30, 2010, 04:14:42 PM »
Paul Gray may be dead, but his influence and music never will. The Slipknot lyric that came true was "They'll never take us alive" from the song until we die
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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #33 on: May 30, 2010, 04:33:47 PM »
Okay, I understand and respect your opinion. I still find it rather humorous, regardless.
I felt its length in quite a few places.

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Re: Slipknot bassist found dead
« Reply #34 on: May 30, 2010, 04:47:04 PM »
The other day, I was at guitar center and saw a lady wearing a Slipknot hoody. On the back it read "WE DON'T DIE".







I began laughing for 5 straight minutes.















Sometimes I can be a terrible, terrible person.

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Already posted this in the other thread, but RIP.