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he died of an accidental overdose in June.The “Butterfly” singer — whose real name was Seth Binzer — told his longtime pal and bandmate Mike “Rebel” Raymo that he knew he needed to get clean but wanted “one night of fun” beforehand.Sadly, Shellshock revealed he had gotten in deep with a “big time” drug dealer, who was allegedly giving him tastes of product for free. “I will do a three to five day chemical detox and then I will go to meetings and get outpatient and I will walk the walk, do the do and make you proud,” the late rocker told Raymo in a haunting voice recording obtained by Daily Mail and published on Monday, September 16.“But I need one night of fun, one night to clean up and one night to tell my girl I love her,” Shellshock stated in the chilling audio recorded in July 2023.The singer passed away at a Los Angeles residence almost one year later on June 24 at 49.Shellshock’s death was confirmed by Crazy Town’s manager, Howie Hubberman, who revealed he had overdosed on drugs.“Seth Binzer, after struggling with addiction and Crazy Town’s rapid success with ‘Butterfly,’ never was able to reach out on a more successful level to deal with his addictions,” Hubberman told People at the time.

onstage brawl with bandmate Dave Navarro, resulting in the abrupt cancellation of their tour. The incident went down Friday during a Boston show, with a heated Farrell, 65, getting in Navarro’s face, throwing punches, and needing to be restrained by several crew members and bassist Eric Avery.Farrell said Monday, “This weekend has been incredibly difficult, and after having the time and space to reflect, it is only right that I apologize to my bandmates, especially Dave Navarro, fans, family and friends for my actions during Friday’s show.”He continued, “Unfortunately, my breaking point resulted in inexcusable behavior, and I take full accountability for how I chose to handle the situation.”Sources close to the situation exclusively told The Post that Farrell “has had a really difficult weekend digesting everything that’s happened since Friday.”They said his wife “has been his rock for over two decades” and felt like she “needed to defend him,” which is why she put out her own statement on Instagram.

got into a fight onstage in Boston Friday night.The band shared the news in a statement on their Instagram account Monday.“To all the fans, the band have made the difficult decision to take some time away as a group,” the statement began. “As such, they will be cancelling the remainder of the tour,” the message added.The announcement also said that refunds for the canceled dates will be issued at the point of purchase.In another statement, Navarro, 57, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery blamed Farrell, 65, for the scuffle and the tour being canceled.“Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour,” began the statement, shared on Navarro’s, Perkins’ and Avery’s Instagram accounts.“Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative.

for abruptly ending their show early on Friday following an on-stage scuffle between frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro.“We want to extend a heartfelt apology to our fans for the events that unfolded last night,” the band wrote in a statement on their Instagram story Saturday night.The rock group’s statement comes 24 hours after their chaotic performance at the Leader Bank Pavillion in Boston, where the bandmates clashed amid growing “tension and animosity.”Farrell, 65, was in the middle of singing “Ocean Size” and became visibly aggravated, shouting expletives at the audience and bandmates.He proceeded to turn to Navarro and rammed his shoulder into the unsuspecting guitarist before the two rockers faced off.It all culminated in Farrell getting into Navarro’s face, throwing two elbow-like jabs before several crew members and bassist Eric Avery, ran up and restrained the hotheaded singer.The lights lowered on stage, but several punches were thrown as the hot-headed singer was escorted away from the crowd’s view.Due to the fight, the rock group announced it canceled its Sunday show in Bridgeport, Conn.

Instagram Saturday morning to give “a first person account of what happened on stage,” claiming “there had been a lot of tension and animosity between the members” of the band.Jane’s Addiction had just started playing their hit “Ocean Size” on stage at the Leader Bank Pavillion when the 65-year-old frontman became frustrated that the band was so much louder than his vocals that “he was screaming just to be heard.”“Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night after night, he felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band,” Etty Lou wrote.“Perry had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat every night. But when the audience in the first row, started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it.”Video footage shows Farrell cussing in the microphone and approaching the band’s guitarist Dave Navarro before hitting him.

according to a video of the awkward clash posted to social media.The two rockers confronted each other while Farrell inched closer into the face of Navarro, who calmly held him back with his right arm.Farrell in turn throws to elbow jabs at the guitarist when multiple crew and bandmates, including bassist Eric Avery, run up and restrain the “Been Caught Stealing” singer telling him to “stop.”The lights lowered on stage, but several punches were thrown as the hot-headed singer was escorted away from the crowd’s view.The remaining three band members — Navarro, Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins — went to the front of the stage where they gave a warm farewell to the crowd. The band raised their hands above their heads, tapped their chests and gave peace signs as the crowd gave them a standing ovation.Photographer Brian MacKenzie, who was tasked with snapping the show for the venue, posted on X that the crowd believed the confrontation was a bit between the bandmates.“Perry had a huge bottle of wine with him all evening, Navarro and Avery kept chatting with each other the whole show and seemed angrier than normal,” he claimed.

New Divide.The California-based rock band revealed that it has reunited for a new tour and music seven years after the death of longtime frontman Chester Bennington — and tapped rocker Emily Armstrong to join the group as a co-vocalist.Armstrong and new drummer Colin Brittain debuted with Linkin Park on Thursday as part of its live stream, showcasing the band’s new single “The Emptiness Machine” alongside returning members Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell and Joe Hahn.“This is a very special day for us,” Shinoda told the crowd, consisting of exclusive fan club members. “In the role of Chester Bennington, this afternoon is each of you.”Linkin Park asked Armstrong — also the lead singer of the rock band Dead Sara — to join the iconic group around Sept.

said in an Instagram post on the first day of Blood Cancer Awareness Month that he “ignored the symptoms for a few months” before he received the “devastating” diagnosis.“Ive now completed 11 months of treatment under some of the finest specialists in the world and with second opinions and advice from the teams that had developed the drugs I was being given,” O’Donnell explained. “I had the benefit of the latest sci fi immunotherapy and some drugs that were first used 100 years ago.

3 Doors Down paused a recent show to share a message about the love of Jesus with thousands of fans.The band, perhaps best known for its 2000 hit song “Kryptonite,” was performing at Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania on August 23, when singer Brad Arnold decided to share the uplifting message, PennLive first reported.“I feel like I can identify with this song more than most of our songs,” he said about their next song in the set, “Away From the Sun.” “This world surrounds us with a message that we’ll never be good enough, we’ll never be strong enough, we’ll never be beautiful enough, we’ll never be rich enough. Whatever the case may be. Certainly that we’ll never win.

True to the raw, anarchic spirit of punk-rock, the Ramones played as dirty as those notoriously filthy CBGB bathrooms when they got a spontaneous offer from their first manager at the holy underground in New York’s East Village in 1975.“They wanted to be in my column in the SoHo Weekly News. And I kept saying, ‘I can’t make it,’ ” legendary Ramones manager Danny Fields told The Post about seeing the iconic New York band at the club that they first played 50 years ago on Aug. 16, 1974.

Rolling Stone reported.“Jack is loved and remembered for his sense of humor, exceptional zest for life, and unshakeable contribution to rock and roll where his legacy will forever thrive,” his family wrote in an online statement.Founded in Los Angeles in 1977, Great White’s heyday was in the mid-1980s with the platinum-selling 1987 album “Once Bitten” and its 1989 follow-up “… Twice Shy,” featuring singles “Rock Me” and “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” which were mainstays in the early days of MTV.Russell left the group in 1996 before it reformed in 2001 when it started touring under the name Jack Russell’s Great White.The latter-day incarnation of Great White is infamously associated with the 2003 inferno at a Rhode Island hard rock music club that started when the group’s stage pyrotechnics ignited highly flammable acoustic foam that surrounded the venue.The blaze killed 100 people, including guitarist Ty Longley, and injured 230 more. It remains the deadliest fireworks accident in US history.Russell announced last month that he would be retiring from touring following his diagnosis.“I am unable to perform at the level I desire and at the level you deserve,” Russell said on social media at the time.

Spice Girls fans. Geri Halliwell has allegedly shut down talks of a potential reunion tour because of her frustrations with bandmate Mel B, according to a new report.

according to the BBC.Despite previously performing at the festival in 2016 and being warned numerous times about local law ahead of time last year, festival organizer Future Sound Asia alleged The 1975 decided to “act in a way that was intended to breach guidelines” at their July 2023 performance.During that show, Healy paused to explain how the band considered skipping the festival in protest of Malaysia’s anti-gay laws but decided they didn’t want to let down fans.“I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool,” the 35-year-old said, swigging from a bottle of wine. “We said, ‘You know what? We can’t let the kids down because they’re not the government.’”“I don’t see the f–king point … of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with,” he said, dropping a few more F-bombs about the Malaysian government.

according to their management.Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark, and their daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler, had been traveling to Seattle to perform on a musical cruise when their plane crashed around 1 p.m., just north of the town of Gillette, and sparked a wildfire, Campbell County officials said. The aircraft was identified by National Transportation Safety Board officials as a single-engine Pilatus PC-12/47E.

Evershort.Foo Fighters fans were left fuming after the rock band’s outdoor concert in NYC was cut short over roaring thunderstorms taking over the Big Apple Wednesday night. The rockers were kicking off the summer US leg of their “Everything Or Nothing At All” stadium tour at Citi Field in Queens when they were forced to slam the brakes on their gig.The band tried to rattle off their smash hit “Everlong” — often reserved for their final song of the night — before the concert was abruptly stopped after 13 songs, while they normally perform at least 21. “We just got called,” frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd 33 seconds into the song, according to footage posted on social media.

making a controversial comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.The Tenacious D musician, 64, has been dropped by his talent agency, Greene Talent.Michael Greene, who was Gass’ rep, confirmed to The Post on Tuesday that he’s no longer working with the singer.On Sunday, Gass and his bandmate Jack Black were performing at the ICC Sydney Theatre in Australia. Black, 54, presented Gass with a birthday cake on stage and asked him to “make a wish.”“Don’t miss Trump next time,” Gass said.

facing major backlash for what he said about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.At the rock band’s concert in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, Jack Black brought a birthday cake out for Gass, 64, and told him to “make a wish” — to which Gass replied: “Don’t miss Trump next time.”The comment, made the day after Trump, 78, was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, garnered widespread backlash on social media.Gass released a statement on Tuesday and apologized for his remark.“The line I improvised onstage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake,” the Grammy Award winner wrote on Instagram. “I don’t condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone,” Gass continued.

assassination attempt of Donald Trump.The rock duo, comprised of Gass, 64, and Jack Black, 54, was performing at the ICC Sydney Theatre in Australia on Sunday, the day after Trump, 78, was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Black brought out a birthday cake for Gass, who turned 64 that day, and asked him to “make a wish,” as seen in fan footage. “Don’t miss Trump next time,” Gass responded.

Beastie Boys are suing the owner of Chili’s for using their song “Sabotage” in social media ads.The hip-hop and rock group filed a complaint in Manhattan federal court accusing Chili’s owner Brinker of copyright infringement and unfair competition from using significant portions of the 1994 track without a license.“Use of the ‘Sabotage’ sound recording, music composition and video was all without permission,” the group’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit on Wednesday, obtained by the Post. “The plaintiffs do not license ‘Sabotage’ or any of their other intellectual property for third-party product advertising purposes, and deceased Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch included a provision in his will prohibiting such uses.”Yauch’s estate, Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz are all listed as plaintiffs in the suit.

Queens of the Stone Age has canceled the remaining eight shows on its European tour due to lead singer Josh Homme needing emergency surgery in the United States.The band announced the news via Instagram July 10.“QOTSA regret to announce that Josh Homme must return to the United States immediately for emergency surgery. Every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue,” the statement read.The group expressed its disappointment to fans writing, “Queens are gutted we aren’t able to play for you. We apologize for any inconvenience and share in your frustration and disappointment.”The canceled dates include festivals in France, Czechia and Slovakia, and headlining performances in Croatia and Greece throughout July.

People Thursday.“Seth Binzer, after struggling with addiction and Crazy Town’s rapid success with ‘Butterfly,’ never was able to reach out on a more successful level to deal with his addictions,” Hubberman told the outlet.“We all tried, but ultimately we all failed, or Shifty would still be here.”Hubberman called the troubled rocker a “friend” he wished he could have “fixed,” but “unfortunately, no one had the exact tools to do this, myself included.”The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has yet to officially reveal the singer’s cause of death after confirming he died on Monday. He was 49 years old.A toxicology report is still pending, according to People.Shellshock, who battled addiction for years, passed away at his residence in Los Angeles.The Crazy Town frontman posted several cryptic messages on social media two months before his death.Shellshock’s struggles with addiction were put on display to the public when he appeared on Seasons 1 and 2 of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr.