He should be recovering from hip and leg surgical procedure, however former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has dedicated to becoming a member of Infectious Grooves for his or her upcoming Australian Tour. Weinberg shall be filling in for Avenged Sevenfold‘s Brooks Wackerman, who handles drumming duties for the funky supergroup.
In accordance with the band, Wackerman received’t have the ability to be part of Infectious Grooves down below as a result of a scheduling battle with Avenged Sevenfold exhibits. As such, information of Weinberg’s involvement got here in an Instagram submit earlier at this time, the place they defined a complete laundry checklist of recent and thrilling issues coming from the band.
“Warning Quantity One…
This Ain’t No April Idiot’s joke..however you positively received’t be laughing in the event you miss out on Infectious Grooves April 1st on the Byron Bay Bluesfest!Warning Quantity Two…
Infectious Grooves is gonna deliver an excellent particular additional Funk and Punk and every thing in between version.Sadly our brother, drummer Brooks Wakerman was not obtainable to do that run of exhibits as a result of Avenged Sevenfold dates.
Drummer for IG is certainly not a straightforward gig to fill.
Beginning with Stephen Perkins (Infectious Grooves) on drums, then adopted with a 17 yr previous Josh Freese (Foo Fighters and so forth) after which got here a 14 yr previous Brooks (The Teenage Drum Sensation) Wakerman, IG has all the time been blessed with some wonderful drummers.So Warning quantity Three…
IG is past stoked and honored to have the ability to have the unbelievable Jay Weinberg to be the driving pressure as he beats the funk out of the drums on this run!“It’s an absolute honor to play with the legendary Infectious Grooves on this extremely thrilling Australian tour! Taking part in with a few of my favourite musicians, in one of the crucial stunning nations, for a number of the biggest followers of heavy music on the planet…I couldn’t be extra thrilled to get began. See you all quickly!”- Jay
Rounding out the band, on guitar shall be a little bit of reunion. Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver and so forth) performed on a number of the first IG album.
He’ll be reuniting with IG for these dates additionally. Dave is an effective good friend and we’re all wanting ahead to getting on stage and having a blast, and giving a giant dose of the Infectious Grooves!Warning quantity 5… (sure, we skipped warning quantity 4, we’ll save that for later, lol)…
Tremendous restricted dates as a result of everybody’s schedule. We’d like to do a large run of dates, nevertheless it’s not attainable with everybody’s schedule. These are brief discover, however we jumped on the alternative to lock some dates in right now.
So when the remainder of the dates are introduced, be there or be ready to let your folks let you know what you missed out.For sure, Robert Trujillo, Mike Muir and Dean Pleasants are past stoked to welcome Jay Weinberg and Dave Kushner in for this occasion (and some extra quickly to be introduced exhibits)!”
As of proper now, the band’s solely date is a deliberate look on the Bluesfest in Byron Bay on April 1. We’ll have to attend and see what number of exhibits down below Jay shall be a member of Infectious Grooves.
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