This was to be the last question in our interview with Vinnie Paul, being posted in our upcoming July 2 Year Anniversary Issue, but we decided to post it here. Vinnie Paul talking a bit about all of the tragic and untimely deaths the metal community has recently experienced… RIP all of you…
Sick Drummer Magazine: The Metal community are still in mourning with the recent passing’s of the great Ronnie James Dio, Type O’ Negative’s Pete Steele and Slipknot’s Paul Grey. It is certainly a very sad time for all metal fans around the world. Having been in the company of these amazingly talented artists over the years, what fond memories do you have from the precious time you have been able to share with them?
Vinnie Paul: Well, Ronnie James was just a fuckin amazing human being! We did the first Golden Gods Awards that were held in the United States together and we filmed this skit, I got to spend about four hours with Ronnie just hanging out at his house. Not only was Ronnie one of the most amazing fuckin singers to have been in heavy metal, but he was just a great and fuckin super cool dude! Same goes for Peter Steele, a fuckin amazing dude! My favorite tour that we ever did together was Pantera and Type O’ Negative on the ‘Far Beyond Driven’ tour, they were just fuckin amazing. Paul Grey… we just seen him four days before he passed and he looked like he was doing great and things were going well… he was always a super energetic dude and he was part of a groundbreaking landslide band… Slipknot is just fucking amazing! They’re all huge losses and I think that all of us are still a little numb, it takes a long time before you really realize that they are no longer with us. The cool thing is they left us a lot of fuckin great music to listen to and a lot of great memories!
RIP – Vinnie Paul
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