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Grief in the hard and heavy community. Daniel Williams, the founding drummer of the American metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada and the influential US music manager Dave Shapiro died in an airplane crash.
The private jet was on the way from New Jersey to California when the accident passed on Thursday morning. Shapiro sat on the joystick himself. For the reason that has been unexplained, the licensed pilot with years of flight experience lost control. The machine crashed into a residential area near the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport by San Diego.
The band, founded in Dayton, founded in 2005 in 2005 with holy wires into the subgenre Christian Metal, said goodbye to her 39-year-old founding member with an Insta contribution. With photos from old times and a heart-emoji-contained line: “No words. We owe everything to you. We love you forever.”
“I’m now the (co-) pilot”
Daniel Williams’ father Larry Williams confirmed to the “TMZ” tabloid that the family had the sad certainty that his son died on board the machine. Various US media show pictures from the drummer Insta story, where he shows pictures from the cockpit and jokes such as “I am now the (co-) pilot” or “Here We Goooo”.
The 42-year-old Shapiro was considered a widely considered Mover and Shaker in the US rock scene. For example, he headed for the career of Sum 41. The specialist magazine “Billboard” quotes a spokesman for Shapiro’s Sound Talent Group (STG) company, which he founded in 2018: “We are on floor destroyed by the loss of our co -founder, our colleagues and friends”. The STG spokesman stated that two other employees of the company were on the passenger list.
So far, two deaths have been officially confirmed. The exact number of victims would still be announced
Local media from Southern California report that around 100 residents were evacuated after the plane crash and ten houses were damaged. Accordingly, eight people have also been injured on the ground. According to a first “X” statement by the San Diego Police, six people are said to have been in the Cessna. So far, two deaths have been officially confirmed. The exact number of victims would still be announced.
The band The Devil Wears Prada, who already bore her name before the film adaptation of the novel, had two top 10 titles in the Billboard 200-Charts: “Zombie” from 2010 and “Dead Throne” from 2011.
“The Day That Music Died”
In the spacious USA, normal distances are often covered with the (private) aircraft, also in the music business, which has led to historical accidents. Under the line “The Day That Music Died”, February 3, 1959, is intended when Buddy Holly, Ritch Valens and the Big Bobber crashed the kings of the young rock’n’roll.
Country icon Patsy CLINE (1963) or Soul giant Otis Redding (1967) also died after a “plane crash”. Among the later victims there are members of the Southern Rocker Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rickie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughn or later Jon Denver.