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According to TMZ, former THIRD BLIND EYE bassist Jason Slater has died. His daughter, Alyssa Carlson, told the site the 49-year-old musician and produced passed away earlier today (Wednesday, December 9) from liver failure at a hospital in Maui, Hawaii. He reportedly kept his condition a secret from Alyssa, who only found out about his it last month when she got a call he had landed in the hospital. A rep for THIRD EYE BLIND told TMZ that it “is always a sad time… when a spirited member of the music scene is taken too soon.” After his departure from THIRD BLIND EYE, Slater went on to work with a number of rock bands as a producer, including QUEENSRŸCHE, with whom he collaborated on four albums: 2005’s “Operation: Mindcrime II”, 2009’s “American Sol...

Gene Simmons is promoting public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety once it has obtained emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “The last three presidents of these United States — [Barack] Obama, [George W.] Bush and [Bill] Clinton — are all gonna be taking the vaccine on the same day, just to prove to people, ‘No, no. This is legitimate,'” the KISS bassist/vocalist told the “Jeremy White Podcast” in a new interview (see video below). “Because there are deniers, there’s the Flat Earth Society, and ‘Aliens ate my dog’s homework’ — and everything you can imagine. People who don’t believe in masks, ‘They’re a hoax’…” Gene went on to blast people who are def...