BURY YOUR DEAD Bassist Says OZZFEST Egg-Throwing Was Organized By 'Someone High Up'

BURY YOUR DEAD bassist Rich Casey has told MTV.com that his band are the unfortunate, yet innocent, victims of Internet rumor regarding their participation in the events surrounding IRON MAIDEN's final Ozzfest appearance this past weekend in Devore, California.

He claims he was sitting backstage, in Ozzfest's catering area, enjoying some late-afternoon nosh, when all of a sudden, "people are being asked to be part of an egging of IRON MAIDEN, for whatever reason," Casey recalled. "At first I thought, 'Is this a last show, you know, let's have fun with MAIDEN sort of thing?' I didn't know there was actually beef between the MAIDEN camp and the Osbourne camp.

"At first I was sitting with a bunch of the other bands, and we all look at each other, like, 'Well this is coming from someone high up, who's asking people to do this.' But it didn't sound right," he continued. "This person just kind of walked away and then, basically, came back around and asked the question again, and that's when everyone I was sitting with declined the offer to be a part of it. Maybe it was the way I said it. I told this person to f--- off. Maybe it was the tone of my voice. I don't know if that set off this entire thing of our band's name being dragged into this [egging incident.] But I assure you we were not involved."

In fact BURY YOUR DEAD even have video footage, shot during MAIDEN's set, which shows most of the band "wasn't even near the main stage."

At first Casey thought the egging was a joke and that it wasn't really going to happen. But then he heard someone chanting "Ozzy, Ozzy" during MAIDEN's intro music, and "I'm like, 'Wow, this is really going to happen,' " he said. "I run up to the center of the soundboard and then all of a sudden, as soon as the band comes out on the stage, eggs are being thrown at them. And then here we are two days later, getting a call from our manager asking us if we've read our e-mail."

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