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#2 – PAUL GRAY – BASS
Full Name: Paul Dedrick Gray
Date of Birth: April 8, 1972
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California (but he was raised in Iowa, just like all members of Slipknot)
Date of Death: May 24, 2010
Place of Death: TownePlace Suites – Urbandale, Iowa
Nickname: The Pig, Balls
Mask
Currently Paul wears a very thick latex mask with deep eye and mouth areas. The mouth area of the mask has a dense amount of metal bars which obscure his mouth. The nose of the mask is almost flush to the rest of the mask and has the characteristics of a pig’s snout with the nostrils appearing face on. There is also a large amount of grazed and scratched areas on the mask and even stitches in some places, making the whole mask look damaged. It’s a variation of his Vol. 3 mask, just more destroyed. There are various color schemes: dark gray, gray with white color.
During the self titled era, it was a halloween pigs mask, in IOWA Paul wore a latex pig’s face mask. MEANING: “Right now it represents breathing problems and it’s somewhat more uncomfortable than the last ones." During the Vol. 3 era Paul was wearing a hard Hannibal lecter style, which had a styled crack from a bullet taken to the forehead.
Side Project: None
About
Paul is the cofounder of Slipknot with Shawn and Anders (Ex-Slipknot Singer). Paul is a friendly down to Earth guy. Paul was not born in Des Moines Iowa, like the rest of the band, he was born in L.A. and moved to Iowa when he was 16. Paul has appeared in bands such as Vexx, Body Pit, Anal Blast and Inveigh Catharsis – all before Slipknot. he also made an appearance with “The Havenots". Besides Slipknot, Gray has filled in as bassist for Unida during their 2003 tour, appeared on Drop Dead, Gorgeous’ Worse Than a Fairy Tale, toured briefly with Reggie and the Full Effect and appeared on the Roadrunner United project, performing bass on “The Enemy" and “Baptized in the Redemption" from the project’s album The All-Star Sessions. He also performed the song (SIC) live unmsaked along with Corey and Joey during the Roadrunner Records special anniversary concert.
At the beginning of 2008 Paul married Brenna. He has her name tattooed on his fingers.
He is one of the 2 of Slipknot‘s founding line-up remaining in the band, and the only one who has maintained his original role in the band.
Here’s what Paul has written about himself on his myspace:
“People say Im too fucking nice, I guess they’re right.They say nice guys finish last,but not to be cocky, I know I’m not in last fucking place and that’s for fucking sure! Karma, what goes around comes around.What I think is funny is why would you wanna take advantage of your friends. The ones that when it comes down to it would get your back everytime. I wonder how many people started their saving accounts ( you people know who you are) It’ll come back to me and it sure as fuck will come back to you. assholes!! AND IF YOUR GONNA CALL MY CELL PHONE AND TALK A BUNCH OF SHIT , UNBLOCK YOUR NUMBER OR LEAVE YOUR NAME SO I CAN RESPOND, AND TALKING SHIT ABOUT MY WIFE ISNT GOING TO FLY EITHER I’M NOT THAT FUCKING NICE. YOU JEALOUS SCARED FUCKING PUSSIES"
That just shows what kind of person Paul is.
Death
On May 24, 2010 Slipknot lost their brother – Paul Gray. But he will never be forgotten.
On May 25, 2010, the band held a formal press conference, stating: “He was kind of the person in the band that really wanted everybody in the band to always get along and just concentrate on the band. He was a really great friend and a really great person. He’s going to be sadly missed, and the world is going to be a different place without him." – Shawn Crahan
Annons
Directlink:
http://dayviews.com/slipknot-grupp/491263026/