PAPA ROACH To Film 'Forever' Video
May 12, 2007PAPA ROACH will film a video for its current single, "Forever", on May 23 in the Los Angeles area. Directing the clip will be Meiert Avis, who has previously worked with P.O.D., U2, and AVRIL LAVIGNE, among others.
PAPA ROACH drummer Dave Buckner is not on the road with the band at the moment due to what a press release called "personal matters," and singer Jacoby Shaddix checked in to give Launch the straight story. "Dave, he went to rehab and went to go clean his act up 'cause he was out of his f***ing mind," Shaddix explained. "We were kind of tripping for a minute, but we were like, 'You know what? The best thing is for our friend to just get healthy, you know, get right.'My boy D-Boy's just gotta do a little soul-searching, you know? 'Cause I've been through that same s*** myself, and I've been down that road and that whole nine and it's like, you know, I know how miserable you could get."
Until Buckner returns in June, PAPA ROACH has recruited UNWRITTEN LAW drummer Tony Palermo to fill in. Shaddix told Launch how it felt to have someone different behind the kit. "It was really kind of like scary, 'cause I mean, you know, drummer, it's like every drummer's a little bit different, you know," he said. "But this guy came in and just, he's been ripping it every night. So it's been kind of interesting, it's been different, but it's been really fun."
PAPA ROACH is touring in support of its fourth major label album, "The Paramour Sessions", which has sold 213,000 copies in the United States since its September 2006 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
PAPA ROACH will team up with HINDER and BUCKCHERRY for the Boys of Rock tour beginning in early July.
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