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 Post subject: Paul Gray found dead!!!
PostPosted: May 24th, 2010, 2:32 pm 
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WTF.

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According to the Des Moines Register, Urbandale, Iowa police are investigating the death of SLIPKNOT's bass guitarist at a local hotel.

Paul Dedrick Gray, 38, of Johnston was found dead at approximately 10:50 a.m. today by an employee at TownePlace Suites (pictured below), 8800 Northpark Drive, police said.

There was no evidence of foul play, police said.

According to KCCI.com, the Polk County Medical Examiner's Office is assisting in the death investigation and will perform an autopsy on Tuesday. Toxicology testing will be completed to determine if there were any contributing factors in the death of Gray, police said.

Witnesses reported that items from the hotel room were carried out of the hotel around 2 p.m.

Gray was born in Los Angeles, California, and later moved to Des Moines.

Wikipedia shows that Gray has been married for two years to GodsGirls' Brenna Paul and has a tattoo of her name on his knuckles.

In a December 2009 posting on his MySpace page, Gray revealed that his wife was pregnant with the couple's first child. "I am the happiest man on the face of the earth — literally!" he wrote. He added, "This has been the best Christmas I have ever had!"

In April 2010 it was announced that Paul Gray had joined HAIL!, the supergroup featuring mainstays Tim "Ripper" Owens (BEYOND FEAR, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH), David Ellefson (MEGADETH) and Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA). He was replacing the group's original member, David Ellefson, who was unable to take part in HAIL!'s upcoming touring activities due to his renewed collaboration with MEGADETH. At the time, Paul Gray stated about his involvement with HAIL!: "This is going to be amazing! After I heard the news about David reuniting with MEGADETH I touched base with Andreas and everything fell into place pretty immediately. I was excited about what they were doing and their whole attitude is just cool, old school camaraderie and fun and I wanted to share that with them. Fortunately, I had this window of time available as SLIPKNOT are on break so the timing worked perfectly. These guys have been through it all and they represent true metal brotherhood. I like that and I'm glad to now be a part of it. I can't wait, I wish we'd leave tomorrow. These shows are going to kick ass!"

Back in 2003, authorities agreed to drop drug possession charges against Paul Gray in exchange for Gray's acknowledgement that he was on drugs when he was involved in a minor traffic accident (Story#1, Story#2) in the summer of 2003 in Des Moines.

Des Moines police arrested Gray on June 1, 2003 after his car collided with a car at Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Carpenter Avenue.

A police report at the time said Gray "had impaired balance, slurred and dull speech, and extremely sleepy and dull behavior."


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WOW.

I am speechless.

I mean... I'm not exactly a huge fan... I did like their first album... but I feel like we lost one of us...

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 Post subject: Re: Paul Gray found dead!!!
PostPosted: May 24th, 2010, 3:11 pm 
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:o I can only assume it was drug-related.

I wasn't a fan either but I had formed a pre-conceived notion of what they were before ever hearing them when I caught an HD concert of theirs a few months ago. I have to say, it was one of the most intense concerts I've ever seen, and far more interesting and experimental than I was willing to give credit for.

Very sad.


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PostPosted: May 25th, 2010, 5:27 am 
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completely dumbstruck when I read it this morning!


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PostPosted: May 25th, 2010, 10:16 am 
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though i wasnt a fan of the music but i have alot of respect for the guy...he single handedly made warwick change their lefty policy back when he started endorsing them in the early 2000s


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PostPosted: May 25th, 2010, 6:27 pm 
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R.I.P. - another one bites the dust


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PostPosted: May 25th, 2010, 11:10 pm 
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frankenjazz wrote:
though i wasnt a fan of the music but i have alot of respect for the guy...he single handedly made warwick change their lefty policy back when he started endorsing them in the early 2000s


And he was responsible for the re-introduction of the Ibanez ATK line, a few years ago. It frustrated Ibanez Artist Relations deeply that he prominently kept playing a discontinued Ibanez model (an amber Korean-made ATK300, identical to the ones some of the forummembers here own) so they revived it and gave him a signature model PGB-1 :)

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PostPosted: May 26th, 2010, 3:15 am 
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It frustrates me a bit that the news article whipped up an old news fact from 03 when he got arrested... I dont see the added value to that, except to make people think it was drugs related... whilst he is said to have been clean since 07?

Im not ruling out the possibility it might have been drugs, but at least wait till the results of the autopsy


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 Post subject: Re: Paul Gray found dead!!!
PostPosted: May 26th, 2010, 6:09 pm 
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Out of respect, we should left any kind of controversies or gossips aside. There are always so much garbage being scattered around when a celebrity dies but at the end of the day the guy was just a good rockin' lefty bass player. R.I.P Paul!


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 Post subject: Re: Paul Gray found dead!!!
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2010, 9:22 am 
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Hi Folks,

I wanted to add this update that was released yesterday:

Police have announced that Slipknot bassist Paul Gray died as the result of an accidental overdose of morphine and the synthetic morphine substitute fentanyl, according to Reuters. An autopsy also concluded that the musician, 38, was suffering from “significant heart disease.”

Tragic loss.. RIP Paul.

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