Approach again in 2007, System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian allegedly knocked out then-Mastodon guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds. Odadjian and Mastodon have since gotten over issues, however after all that is the Web and nothing ever actually dies.
For these unfamiliar, the alleged altercation went down proper after the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Hinds bought right into a battle with Odadjian‘s visitor Rev. William Burk, at which level Odadjian supposedly knocked Hinds out. A police report detailed that the battle was between the three aforementioned events, and that Hinds was in a coma for a number of weeks afterward.
Now in a brand new interview with Steel Hammer, Odadjian has as soon as once more downplayed his involvement within the incident.
“I by no means knocked out Brent Hinds. That’s one thing that Brent was informed by I-don’t-know-who. What occurred was, we had been in Las Vegas, outdoors Mandalay Bay after the MTV Music Awards, and I used to be with my good friend, [rapper] Reverend William Burk. Brent Hinds comes out of a taxi and he’s like, ‘Bro, I like you!’ He was inebriated and swinging his shirt. He saved coming as much as hug me. He was very in-my-face.”
Odadjian stated he finally distanced himself from the scenario, and when he rotated, noticed Hinds swinging at Burke. He then says Hinds “fell and hit his head and bought knocked out.”
Odadjian additionally maintained his innocence within the scenario, saying: “I stated, ‘Test the fucking cameras [at the front of Mandalay Bay]! I did nothing!” As soon as they did, the police got here and let me go. I used to be there for, like, 4 hours.”
So now the true query – what’re the probabilities we get a Hinds visitor spot on a Seven Hours After Violet single?
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