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Neurotica Shocked, Dave Williams Seemed Fine.
08-19-02
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Kelly Schaefer, lead vocalist of Neurotica
has been keeping us up to date on happenings on this years Ozzfest with
the tour diary published on our sister site Rocknworld.com. In the
latest installment of the diary, Kelly reflects on hearing the sad news
of the death of Drowning Pool frontman Dave Williams. Below you will find
the entry for August 14th, the day Dave Williams was found dead on the
Drowning Pool tour bus as well as a portion of the diary entry for the
previous day, which illuminates how much a shock Daves sudden death was
to the bands on the tour. And finally Kelly describes how Neurotica paid
tribute to Dave Williams the following day.
Aug 13th Indianapolis
We ran into Dave and the boys from drowning
pool, we have been running into and becoming friends with these guys while
out here on the tour, they were where we are last year, and I think Dave
has been really cool to us, he was the only one that came to see us on
the mainstage appearance we had in Columbus, he came running up the ramp
as we were heading for the stage and said, LETS GO CHANGE SOME LIVES FOREVER
BOYS!!! I thought that was so cool!! any how, I told Dave that BODIES was
gonna be off the hook cause of the mud and shit, I told him I would be
there!! after the set at the jager tent, we knew we had a day off so I
personally thought after my daily shot from the jager tent before signing,
I would have another and then a beer, and so on and so on, I soon found
myself with jager horns on my head, like deer antlers or some shit, I also
found this amazing leaf on the ground, very unlike any leaf that we would
see in Florida, so of course being hammered on jager, I proceeded to stick
the leaf in my antlers which was over my black hat,
I was having a great time, I saw Kelso
at the jager tent along with Dave from DP, I was in that kind of mood,
so I asked him if I could jump up and do CREEPING DEATH , he said "Man
my stage is an open door" so hopefully before the end of the tour I will
get my punk ass up to do it, I hate to intrude on someone else's stage
you know?? We did a shot of jager together, snapped some pics with the
jager girls, and then Kelso said we needed to do a radio interview with
x103 I think it was, we met Steve from that station and he hooked it up
so I went over to the media section, met the guy from the station, and
he was sort of...well acting as though I did not know what was up, like
I was really drunk which was not really the case, it was a weird vibe,
he said do you know that you have antlers
on your head???, I said YES!!!!, I AM
HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE MY FRIEND!!!
Aug 14th somewhere outside D.C..
Awoke at the Holiday Inn just outside of
D.C. our new driver Doug was crashed until 1:00 then I can run up and grab
a much needed shower, after my shower, myself, Migwell Chris, and Jason
decided to head over to the mall across the street, we started walking
and then we realized we needed to grab a shuttle over, walked around the
mall, checked out the record store, got some food at the food court, its
nice having these days off to sleep in, shower and all of that shit! We
hit the playstation store and THERE IT WAS!!!!! MADDEN 2003 HOLY SHIT!!!
I could not believe it!!, you have to understand how much we play Madden
Football on the road, its how we pass our time when bored, so to have the
new madden was just insane, I could not wait to tell the others!!!, I also
grabbed Tiger Woods Golf as well. we headed back to the bus and we put
the madden game in, started playing for just a short time, and one of our
friends from the tour called from the other holiday inn across town, she
called Chris, he yelled out hey man pause the game, and then he dropped
a fucking BOMB!! Dave from Drowning pool was dead???? DEAD??? WHAT!!!!!
They had literally just found him on the bus, he had been sleeping, and
they wondered why he was not waking, so they tried to wake him and he was
not responding, this is fucking HORRIBLE, JUST HORRIBLE!! We were stunned!!!
We had just been partying together 12 some odd hours ago??? He seemed perfectly
fine, I just watched him rock the fucking house hours ago, how could that
be true, the news was coming from the tour, so it had not even been reported
to MTV or anyone to confirm it for sure!! we soon found out it was true,
one of the coolest people we had met out here and now he was gone!!!
Shit he was only 30 yrs old, I watched
him and Zack Wylde talk for 20 minutes yesterday, how could this happen,
it really moved me man, I just cannot imagine what happened, we tried to
find out what hospital he was at, but then thought the band must need some
space, we were so fucked up by it that we of course put the game away and
just thought about that shit for a few hours, we heard the show in Virginia
might be cancelled, we did not know what to do it was about 9:00 now, we
decided to go have some sushi and sulk!!! this shit is wayyy to close for
comfort!!! I have to end this right here cause , I just cannot believe
this happened!!!!!!!
Show day Bristol, Virginia (aug 15th)
well as you can see we played today, I
woke up feeling some tremendous emotion man, I had mixed feelings about
playing today, I know from the 5 weeks of hanging out with Dave Williams
that he would have wanted the party to continue, but I just felt so weird
about soliciting a cheer from the crowd, when we just lost one of our brothers
out here, we have all become very close, we eat together, travel together,
rock the countryside together, and now one of the main bands on this tour
was just.....gone! I really wanted to wear a drowning pool shirt on stage
today, but they are not selling them, so I wrote DW R.I.P. across both
knuckles, Shawn drew drowning pools log on Chris and himself, just to pay
tribute in some small way!! I was determined to make the motherfuckers
light up today while on stage, this would be a day to remember forever.
We hit the stage and we put DP posters over our skrims on the stage, and
proceeded to fuck shit up in Virginia, it
was a truly inspired day of performances
by EVERYONE! we all really dug that guy man, he kept it real, and worked
his ass off, we wanted to say something while on stage and I remembered
something he always said on stage so I decided to say it for him on stage
today, he said IF YOU CAN'T SMOKE IT, DRINK IT, OR FUCK IT, THEN IT AINT
WORTH DOING!!! the crowd of course responded in kind with a roar that I
KNOW Dave heard, we have to pull out early today, we hot the tents for
the signings where we would normally be doing our signings with drowning
pool
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