R.I.P. "Paul Gray" 1972-2010

'by portuguese fan''

Paul Dedrick Gray (April 8, 1972 May 24, 2010) was an American musician, best known as the bassist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Slipknot.

Personal life and career
Gray was born in Los Angeles, California. Later his family relocated to Des Moines, Iowa. In his youth, Gray performed in bands such as Anal Blast, Vexx, Body Pit, and Inveigh Catharsi.

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.

In June 2003, Gray crashed his car into another vehicle. After police were called to the scene and searched his car, Gray was arrested for possession of cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and failure to obey a traffic signal.He was sentenced to one year of informal probation.Turmoil was caused within Slipknot's fanbase when Gray's mugshot from the incident surfaced, as at this time, with the exception of Corey Taylor and guitarist James Root, unobstructed photographs of most members of the band's faces were exceptionally rare.

At the time of his death, he was one of 3 original members of Slipknot remaining in the band, and the only one who had maintained his original role in the band due to Clown's switch from main drums to custom percussion during the early days. He was one of the two members not born in Iowa (the other is Jim Root, who was born in Las Vegas).


Death

On May 24, 2010, The Des Moines Register reported that Gray had been found dead in a room at the Town Plaza hotel in Urbandale, Iowa.[5][3][6][7][8][9] He is survived by his wife Brenna who was expecting their first child at the time of his death. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday, May 25, as the cause of death is unknown. The band has not yet made an official statement regarding Gray's death

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• Slipknot
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[knudsen7500]

@Fauxity no one deserve to die not even you after leaving such a stupid comment if your addicted to drugz or alcohol shit will happen i know that for a fact and you think he dosnt give shit about his family i think there was nothing he loved as much in the world and try to show some respect, rest in peace poul slipknot will never be the same without you

[crazzymonkey95]

R.I.P PAUL GRAY we will allways love you <3

[knudsen7500]

@TheSpecs94 thank you

[TheSpecs94]

sure it was a shame that whitney huston died but paul had a whole band basicly relying on him for inspiration he was a good man at heart and does not deserve some immoral prick like Fauxity to be saying paul deserved to die R.I.P Paul Slipknot will never be the same without you

[TheSpecs94]

@knudsen7500 well said man or girl (sorry)

[TheSpecs94]

@thugproofclips dude you shouldve seen the argument me and that ass hat hat a few months ago on this video

[TheSpecs94]

@Fauxity its only now ive got round to replying to this and tbh dick cheese paul didnt get as much attention as what that bitch whitney huston got even though he had way more talent than her now fuck off of here you ass hat

[snied1]

R.I.P from Sweden!

[Slipknot66633363]

R.I.P. From the Russia!We never forget you Paul!!!