There’s this previous story wherein now ex-Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was knocked out by System of a Down/Seven Hours After Violet bassist Shavo Odadjian in Las Vegas again in 2007. It’s a narrative that’s been operating across the steel world for practically 20 years, however because of a latest interview, Odadjian is making an attempt to clear the air and kill the notion that he laid the guitarist out in a combat.
For people who don’t bear in mind, the story goes that Odadjian was hanging out with rapper Rev. William Burk when the combat broke out. Hinds ended up worse for put on after the combat and a police report detailed that each one three males have been concerned.
At one level, the story in query was loosely lined in part of Mastodon’s Crack The Skye documentary, wherein the band mentioned the combat and its aftermath with out going into an excessive amount of element. What we do know is it not solely landed Hinds in a weeks lengthy coma, but additionally noticed him undergo two black eyes, mind hemorrhaging, a damaged nostril, was specified by a coma, and skilled signs of vertigo, dizziness and nausea for eight months afterwards. And whereas it closely influenced the guitarist’s contributions to that iconic album, it needed to have been a scary second.
Now, in a latest interview with Steel Hammer, Odadjian lays out what he says is the collection of occasions that occurred that night time.
“I by no means knocked out Brent Hinds. That’s one thing that Brent was informed by I-don’t-know-who. What occurred was, we have been in Las Vegas, outdoors Mandalay Bay after the MTV Music Awards, and I used to be with my buddy, [rapper] Reverend William Burk. Brent Hinds comes out of a taxi and he’s like, ‘Bro, I like you!’ He was inebriated and swinging his shirt. He stored coming as much as hug me. He was very in-my-face.”
Odadjian stated he ultimately obtained away from Hinds’ consideration however when he regarded behind him, Hinds and Burke have been preventing. That’s when he stated Hinds “fell and hit his head and obtained knocked out.” Odadjian was in the end picked up by police and questioned for 4 hours. Nonetheless as soon as they checked the lodge safety footage, the bassist stated he was launched.
Now who’s going to go discover Hinds and ask him for his facet of the story?