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 will likely be filling in for Avenged Sevenfold’s Brooks Wackerman, who handles drumming duties for the funky supergroup.
Based on the band, Wackerman gained’t have the ability to be a part of Infectious Grooves down underneath on account of a scheduling battle with Avenged Sevenfold exhibits. As such, information of Weinberg’s involvement got here in an Instagram publish earlier at the moment, the place they defined a complete laundry listing of recent and thrilling issues coming from the band.
“Warning Quantity One…
This Ain’t No April Idiot’s joke..however you undoubtedly gained’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 convey an excellent particular additional Funk and Punk and every thing in between version.Sadly our brother, drummer Brooks Wakerman was not accessible to do that run of exhibits on account of Avenged Sevenfold dates.
Drummer for IG is unquestionably not a straightforward gig to fill.
Beginning with Stephen Perkins (Infectious Grooves) on drums, then adopted with a 17 12 months outdated Josh Freese (Foo Fighters and so forth) after which got here a 14 12 months outdated Brooks (The Teenage Drum Sensation) Wakerman, IG has all the time been blessed with some wonderful drummers.So Warning quantity Three…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 power 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! Enjoying with a few of my favourite musicians, in one of the stunning nations, for a few of the biggest followers of heavy music on the earth…I couldn’t be extra thrilled to get began. See you all quickly!”- Jay
Rounding out the band, on guitar will likely be a little bit of reunion. Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver and so forth) performed on a few of the first IG album.
He’ll be reuniting with IG for these dates additionally. Dave is an effective pal and we’re all trying ahead to getting on stage and having a blast, and giving an enormous dose of the Infectious Grooves!Warning quantity 5… (sure, we skipped warning quantity 4, we’ll save that for later, lol)…
Tremendous restricted dates on account of everybody’s schedule. We’d like to do an enormous run of dates, nevertheless it’s not attainable with everybody’s schedule. These are quick discover, however we jumped on the alternative to lock some dates in presently.
So when the remainder of the dates are introduced, be there or be ready to let your folks inform you 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 underneath Jay will likely be a member of Infectious Grooves.
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