The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman has shared a poignant tribute to his late good friend and Giraffe Tongue Orchestra bandmate Brent Hinds. The latter musician, recognized for his 25-year run with progressive sludge metallers Mastodon, sadly handed away on Wednesday (August twentieth) as a results of a motorbike accident. He was 51-years-old on the time. Taking to social media as we speak, August twenty second, Weinman mirrored on the passing of Hinds with the next publish:
“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 exhausting. Only a few days in the past I informed my bandmates I felt Brent didn’t have lengthy. I knew I wanted to see him after I acquired house from Australia. I didn’t get that probability.
Right here’s the reality: I noticed a lot of trolls speaking shit on-line about Brent after he departed Mastodon, and it made me sick. How rapidly folks flip. Brent was born a rockstar. Liked not only for his expertise, however for being a wild, untamable free spirit, greater than life itself. The flood of tributes from folks we by no means heard of to legends we by no means may think about even being in the identical room with is proof of that.
When Brent 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 associates with Brent for 25 years. Folks used to surprise how a man like me was so near a man like him. I all the time inform them this story: someday we had been backstage, and medicines had been going round. I believed perhaps I ought to simply let go and take part. Brent stopped me. He stated, “No… that’s not you. I like you as you might be.” That was him. When Brent referred to as so many people his finest good friend, you believed it as a result of it was true.
I like you, Brent. I’ll all the time maintain on to the reminiscences, the music, the Brent signature guitar you left at my home so we’d all the time have a motive to jam, the tiki statue you began carving for me out of a yard log, and all of the little items of you which are 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 an enormous tour of Australia. After all, the second GTO tour will get canceled due to your motorbike bullshit. However truthfully, I wouldn’t anticipate the mighty Brent Hinds to journey some other means. I get it, buddy. I actually do.”
