Ex-MEGADETH Bassist JAMES LOMENZO To Replace PAUL GRAY On HAIL! Tour

With three weeks of dates booked throughout Europe and Asia, HAIL! ? the supergroup featuring mainstays Tim “Ripper” Owens (BEYOND FEAR, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH), David Ellefson (MEGADETH) and Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA) ? has announced that it will not cancel its tour in the wake of its bassist Paul Gray’s (SLIPKNOT) untimely death.
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Fat Mike comes clean on Cokie The Clown incident

Fat Wreck Chords has posted a video from Fat Mike of NOFX regarding the singer’s now infamous SXSW performance as Cokie The Clown. The clip reveals that Mike did not, in fact, serve members of his audience shots of Patron Anejo tequila which had been watered down with his urine. Footage from a second camera reveals the bottles were switched before the singer took the stage.

Mike of course kept up the lie when he spoke to us after the incident, which saw him banned from Emo’s, the Austin, Texas venue where the performance took place. NOFX released their Cokie the Clown EP in 2009.
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