THAT keyboardist audition

[RodrigoAltaf]

 I´m kinda new to the forum, looked around and could not find any topic about this. When KM left DT they held auditions for his replacement, and AFAIK Jordan was the chosen one, but he couldn´t commit to long tours back then due to having small children, so they chose Derek. The only other name they disclosed as being a participant in the auditions was Jens Johanssen. In one of the video commentaries, they also mention "one guy that died", but not his name.

Since a lopt of people here seem to have acquaintances in the inner circles of the band, I dare to ask: who were all the guys that auditioned for keyboardist when KM left?

[rumborak]

The one who died actually choked on vomit from what I hear. It actually was someone else's vomit he choked on, but they couldn't establish whose it was. You can't dust for vomit, you know...

[RodrigoAltaf]

The one who died actually choked on vomit from what I hear. It actually was someone else's vomit he choked on, but they couldn't establish whose it was. You can't dust for vomit, you know...

Choking from someone else´s vomit? That sounds like a job for SVU...

[TheGreatPretender]

In one of the video commentaries, they also mention "one guy that died",

Right at the audition?

[Zydar]

He was going for the middle of Metropolis, but couldn't take the heat.

[RodrigoAltaf]

In one of the video commentaries, they also mention "one guy that died",

Right at the audition?

 
That was a GREAT joke by Jordan.

[TheAtliator]

So does that answer your question?

[RodrigoAltaf]

 FAr from it...

[TheAtliator]

 

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

He was going for the middle of Metropolis, but couldn't take the heat.

Easter egg from that video commentary

JP: And....it was tragic really...he exploded on stage.
Jordan: Just like that...
James: He just went up...
JP: He just was like a flash of green light...and that was it, nothing was left...
James: Look at his face .... it's true, this really did happen.
JP: Well, there was a little green globule on his keyboard.
James: Like a stain, really.
JP: More of a stain than a globule, actually, and...
James: You know several...you know dozens of people spontaneously combust each year, it's just not really widely reported.

[Jaq]

So since this seems to have drifted into "joke the forum vets tell rather than actually answer the question" territory-were there in fact more people than JR and Jens Johanssen that auditioned, and who were they?

[RodrigoAltaf]

I can´t remember where I heard this, but I think it was around 5 guys. So Derek, Jens, Jordan and who else?

[Sycsa]

In one of the video commentaries, they also mention "one guy that died", but not his name.

It's one of those things, you know, the authorities said best leave it unsolved.