The Body Just Hit The Floor

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Dave Williams, lead singer of Drowning Pool, was found dead on the band's tour bus Wednesday afternoon (August 14), according to a spokesperson for the group. He was 30 years old.

The Dallas quartet was on tour with Ozzfest when Williams' body was discovered. Ozzfest had played the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, on Tuesday.

A cause of death has yet to be determined. We will have more information on this story as it develops. Bostered by the hit single "Bodies," Drowning Pool's debut album, Sinner, has sold over 1.2 million copies to date since its release last June, according to SoundScan.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The nu metal kids will be crying in their hoodies tonight.

― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that was the first thing i'd heard about drowning pool other than they were fucking dreadful

― Andrew, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! He's dead! He has achieved the ultimate goal of the Grunger. To die famous and younf and selling products. Youth power now!

― Lynskey, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! He's dead!

...what a jerk.

― GCannon, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Grunger"?

― John Darnielle, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dead?"......."Drow-----ning pool??????..............OH DEAR GOD!"

― Jeff Goldblum, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Grungely.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Ronan. I now have "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare" in my head.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

As reported on another webboard, in a strange coincidence the lead singer of Dying On a Tour Bus was found drowned in a pool last weekend.

― Dare, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a friend who was really upset when Falco died and it was reported in the papers, because he's like, "When Greg Sage of the Wipers dies, how the hell will we even know?"

― Kris, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it strange that Dom posted about this, and yet I am also Dom AND am from Dallas. After some deliberation, I have determined that one of us has the shining, and can identify the true cause of death.

Actually, this was a top story last night on the local news. I've never heard the band.

― dleone, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the grungiest way to die, aside from herion overdose. Doesn't beat Left Eye though. Why do celebrities find odd and scandelous ways to die? Can't they just get dehabilitating conditions and cancer like the rest of us.

Attention hogs I tell you.

― Mr noodles, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dom2: If you report the death of Sergio Leone in Northampton, then we worry.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Noodles: Paul Eddington died of a degenerative disease.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

So this morning I wake up and I get ready for work and I buy a copy of the local paper and there is an article about Drowning Pool that was obviously written before the lead singer was found dead (but dropped on thousands of doorsteps well afterwards). Excerpts:

The drink of choice is a "Jager bomb:" Jagermeister mixed with Red Bull. "The Jager and the Red Bull end up fighting each other all night long. You're up, you're down, you're up, you're down." (That's the singer being quoted there.)

Once Ozzfest wraps up in September, Drowning Pool will take a short break before heading into the studio to record the follow-up to "Sinner." Some songs have been written on the road, but the band prefers a more sophisticated approach. "We all just get in a room and jam with a case of beer and a bottle of whiskey," Williams said. "We like our music loud and our beer cold. I mean, it's pretty simple. We're not rocket scientists."

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

who?

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm also from Dallas and this thread is the first I've ever heard of this band.

Jagermeister and Red Bull -- sounds lethally yucky.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

If someone ever does a cover of that stupid song they came out with, they should do it from the lead singer's perspective... "Let my body hit the floor, let my body hit the floor, let my body hit the flooooooooooooorrrrrrr!"

― Chris C., Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

even from the jaded ilm perspective, isn't the sickest fucking thing EVER when the troops are interviewed in Fahrenheit 9/11 and they explain how they played "let the bodies hit the floor" in their TANKS as they literally KILLED people?

i guess it wouldn't be any better if they were playing Tchaikovsky but damn, fuck Drowning Pool.

― Jimmy_tango, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

All I know about Drowning Pool:

1. That atrocious "Bodies" song
2. The lead singer is dead
3. At Wrestlemania 18, the lead singer ordered all of Toronto to, quote, "get your asses up off your shoulders".

That's enough for a complete Wikipedia entry, right?

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

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