Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Brent Hinds performed within the supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra again in 2016 and have been resulting from tour that yr earlier than the tour was cancelled resulting from a non-fatal bike accident. And now, 9 years later, Weinman is sadly writing a tribute to his pricey good friend and former bandmate, who died in a bike accident this previous week, which he was decided not at fault for.
Taking to Instagram to submit an array of pictures and movies of Weinman and Hinds‘ time collectively, Weinman did not maintain again his sentiments:
“I needed to wait a day to write down this as a result of even accepting the information of Brent’s loss of life has been actually laborious. Just some days in the past I instructed my bandmates I felt [Hinds] didn’t have lengthy. I knew I wanted to see him once I received house from Australia. I didn’t get that likelihood.
Right here’s the reality: I noticed numerous trolls speaking shit on-line about [Hinds] after he departed Mastodon, and it made me sick. How shortly folks flip. [Hinds] was born a rockstar. Cherished not only for his expertise, however for being a wild, untamable free spirit, larger than life itself. The flood of tributes from folks we by no means heard of to legends we by no means might think about even being in the identical room with is proof of that.
When [Hinds] walked right into a room, the entire place shifted. Even essentially the most “bigger than life” celebrities melted into the background when his presence took over.
I used to be mates with [Hinds] for 25 years. Folks used to marvel how a man like me was so near a man like him. I at all times inform them this story: sooner or later we have been backstage, and medicines have been going round. I believed possibly I ought to simply let go and take part. [Hinds] stopped me. He mentioned, “No… that’s not you. I like you as you might be.” That was him. When [Hinds] referred to as so many people his finest good friend, you believed it as a result of it was true.
I like you, [Hinds]. I’ll at all times maintain on to the recollections, the music, the [Hinds] signature guitar you left at my home so we’d at all times have a cause to jam, the tiki statue you began carving for me out of a yard log, and all of the little items of you which can be nonetheless right here. I woke as much as a flood of messages asking if I used to be okay as a result of everybody knew how a lot I liked you, brother.
And Soiled B… AJ requested me to reunite GTO and do a giant tour of Australia. In fact, the second GTO tour will get canceled due to your bike bullshit. However actually, I wouldn’t anticipate the mighty Brent Hinds to journey some other approach. I get it, buddy. I actually do.”
It was introduced on Wednesday, the twentieth of August, that Brent Hinds had been concerned in a deadly bike accident, and confirmed by Mastodon on Thursday, the twenty first of August. Mastodon then went on to play a efficiency on the twenty second of August, Friday, which they devoted fully to Hinds. A plethora of tributes have additionally poured out within the meantime.
As acknowledged earlier, Atlanta Information First reported that Hinds was killed in an accident wherein he was driving a bike when a driver of a BMW SUV did not yield whereas making a flip at an intersection.
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