Monster Magnet tour cancelled...Wyndorf in hospital after overdose

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I know there are only about three Magnet fans but here you go anyway. Very sad, supposedly he'd been clean for over ten years. Guess he relapsed. Most do after all..

http://www.spv.de/monstermagnet/

MONSTER MAGNET - Tour Cancelled - Official Statement

“ The battle with one’s inner demons is the most personal fight any of us can undertake. The fight is at times a lonely, confusing journey. On the evening of February 27, Dave Wyndorf suffered a set back in his own fight and was hospitalized due to a drug overdose. His full recovery is expected. We ask that all those he has encountered over the years or simply affected by his music to take a moment to think good thoughts of and for him. With the grace of God and those who love him we are all confident that Dave will rebound from this set back and continue to play and make great rock and roll.”

Steve Davis
Davis Entertainment Group
Monster Magnet Management

― bird (shookout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

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Bummer about the tour, but "full recovery expected" is a relief.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeeps. (A pity the press release is sentimental booshwa if well-meaning enough.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea. I thought he was a Magma fan?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40005000/jpg/_40005137_davis300.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

THAT GUY IS A BRO.

― MAX BRODY, ULTIMATE ROADIE (ddb), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Count me in as a fan. This sucks.

― brianiast (briania), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, your honor. With God's help he'll conquer this terrible affliction.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, this is bad news. Wyndorf is one of rock's greatest lyricists.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

it does suck. hope he gets better.

(drugs = heroin, right?)

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Holy crap. I was going to see them when they rolled into town next week. I saw them about two years ago at Rock City and they totally ruled. 15 minute 'Spine of God' as encore, the works. This is pretty awful, I hope it's not as serious as it sounds. Best wishes to him. May the Bullgod bring you back to full strength!

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

And I won't get to see Witchcraft!! Truly awful news.

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

About the sentiments expressed above...

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Es una mierda de noticia. Best wishes from spain. He is one of the best singers i´ve ever heard. And the band is one of my favourites! For all demons and angels! i hope he´ll get better! and maybe could tell us in a song in the future!

― Juan Pinto, Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Devilhorns

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

drugs = sleeping pills in this case

― a dude, Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

you dont yank on the spine of GOD, ya get what ya give, ya know what i mean, cause peace brothers is what ya get from the CHEMICAL KING, YEAH YEAH...... LONG LIVE THE ORIGINAL BULLGOD AND I HOPE DAVE RECOVERS SO HE CAN GIVE THIS BLUE MARBLE WE LIVE ON ANOTHER KNOCK IN THE SNOUT!!!!

MONOLITHIC
Monster Magnet Fans
PORTLAND, OREGON BABY!

― Monolithic, Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ever since first hearing the "murder/tractor" single and hearing the first Ep on Glitterhouse I was hooked. Nothing in rock has ever sounded so dark and all out nihilistic and there are few bands that can tread water near Magnet (early mudhoney, stooges, loop). Stoner rock indeed. The scary stoners that you were always afraid of in jr high school...yeah these were the magnet kids and they all know a Lizard Johnny-you better run! "(screaming?) out on the street, I witnessed the birth of a freak...don't waste the drool Johnny!)

Dave Wyndorf will be ok...shit he's mostly clean...that's better than most of us!

― Phillip Asheton, Friday, 12 May 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was wondering if there was a thread about this the other day. I practically grew up around the Monster Magnet guys, I was living a block away from them when they first signed to A&M. Dave was a smart, down-to-earth, and personable dude. He loved to mock his own cock-rock persona, and constantly encouraged my own meager musical endeavors.

On one hand, I hope he's ok; on the other, I know the guy's a rock n roll vampire, you just can't kill him. Back in his Shrapnel days he was hospitalized for mouthing off to some Boston bouncers; Monster Magnet was snubbed for years (too smart for metal, too dumb for alternative) before "Space Lord" took off. He just keeps on truckin' through the shit and the flowers.

The recent re-release of Spine of God seems to have slipped by unnoticed? High-ly recommended. The demo version of Ozium on it is great. Don't know why they never released the first two demo tapes on CD. They're widely bootlegged in crappy versions and some of the demo versions majorly stomp their studio counterparts (like "Ozium" and "Tab").

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

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