Post by Fuggle on Apr 1, 2007 6:19:33 GMT -5
Rock Music Menu: Punk rock world takes a deadly turn ... again
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
Rockmusicmenu@hotmail.com
03/30/2007
Anthony Lovato
The world of punk rock is supposed to be against the grain, frenetic, and rebellious, but sometimes, it turns deadly. Such was the case Sunday when Anthony Lovato, frontman for the Chicago band Mest, shanked his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend with a pocket knife.
Details are still sketchy, but it appears that Lovato, and the man got into an altercation in a parking lot, which turned ugly, then bloody. The singer then called 911 and awaited for emergency response teams, and law enforcement to arrive. The man later died, and Lovato was arrested.
But after being held under suspicion of criminal homicide and $1 million bail, the singer was released Tuesday with no charges filed. Prosecutors said "There was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was not a justified use of force in self-defense."
Mest
The crime comes just after a year since the break-up of Mest was announced just before a farewell tour last year celebrated the end of the pop punkers' 10th anniversary. The most recent album, "Photographs," contained the eerily prophetic "As His Heart Dies (My Mistake)."
For some, the episode recalled another punk rock and cutlery related death, the 29 year-old Sid and Nancy case. In a New York hotel room, Sid Vicious, bassist of the then recently defunct Sex Pistols, allegedly awoke after a heroin induced nod out marathon to find his girlfriend, Montgomery County's Nancy Spungen, dead of a single stab wound to the stomach on the bathroom floor.
Vicious apparently had no memory of killing Spungen, but was arrested and charged with murder. He was freed on bail, and died a few weeks later of a heroin overdose.
Fortunately, if the word can be used in this case, it doesn't appear to be heading in that nasty of a direction. And in all likelihood, the incident will be a footnote to the career of a mildly significant group whose claim to fame was collaborating with Good Charlotte and opening for some of the punk greats like Social Distortion.
But a note to all budding punk rockers; stay away from knives, they're no good.
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
Rockmusicmenu@hotmail.com
03/30/2007
Anthony Lovato
The world of punk rock is supposed to be against the grain, frenetic, and rebellious, but sometimes, it turns deadly. Such was the case Sunday when Anthony Lovato, frontman for the Chicago band Mest, shanked his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend with a pocket knife.
Details are still sketchy, but it appears that Lovato, and the man got into an altercation in a parking lot, which turned ugly, then bloody. The singer then called 911 and awaited for emergency response teams, and law enforcement to arrive. The man later died, and Lovato was arrested.
But after being held under suspicion of criminal homicide and $1 million bail, the singer was released Tuesday with no charges filed. Prosecutors said "There was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was not a justified use of force in self-defense."
Mest
The crime comes just after a year since the break-up of Mest was announced just before a farewell tour last year celebrated the end of the pop punkers' 10th anniversary. The most recent album, "Photographs," contained the eerily prophetic "As His Heart Dies (My Mistake)."
For some, the episode recalled another punk rock and cutlery related death, the 29 year-old Sid and Nancy case. In a New York hotel room, Sid Vicious, bassist of the then recently defunct Sex Pistols, allegedly awoke after a heroin induced nod out marathon to find his girlfriend, Montgomery County's Nancy Spungen, dead of a single stab wound to the stomach on the bathroom floor.
Vicious apparently had no memory of killing Spungen, but was arrested and charged with murder. He was freed on bail, and died a few weeks later of a heroin overdose.
Fortunately, if the word can be used in this case, it doesn't appear to be heading in that nasty of a direction. And in all likelihood, the incident will be a footnote to the career of a mildly significant group whose claim to fame was collaborating with Good Charlotte and opening for some of the punk greats like Social Distortion.
But a note to all budding punk rockers; stay away from knives, they're no good.