San Diego aircraft crash: the old rock community mours

New York (AP) – The Alternative Music Community Tradet afterwards A private jet Beat a power line in foggy weather early on Thursday and fell into a quarter in San Diego to kill several people on board.

Among them was the groundbreaking Music director Dave ShapiroA pillar of his music scene, and Daniel Williams, a former drummer of the popular Ohio Metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada. Two employees were also killed by Shapiros Sound Talent Group Agency: Kendall Fortner (24) and Emma Huke, 25.

Both Williams and Shapiro served as success stories for their respective rock music scenes – the proof that these subcultural sounds had a real mainstream appeal.

Williams' band, whose publications reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200, was a customer of the sound talent group. He was a co -founder of the company in 2018 with Tim Borror and Matt Andersen, who previously worked for the agency group and the United Talent Agency.

The list of Sound Talent Group concentrated Sum 41Pierce the Veil, Parkway Drive, Silverstein, I am wonderful pop acts such as the Brother Boy band of the 90s, Hanson, especially known for their song “MMMBop” and “Thousand Meilen (Interlude)” singer songwriter Vanessa Carlton.

The post-hardcore band on Thursday named Shapiro (42), an inspiration, “despite success, which never forgot the scenes and the communities from which they came.”

“It is difficult to put into words how much this man means for so many of us,” said Pierce The Veil, who has been performing for almost two decades, including a sold -out concert this week at New York Madison Square Garden, in a tribute to the social platform X.

The world alive, a band that was signed on Shapiros label, said that he was one of the most influential and positive forces in our music scene and beyond. And Dan is one of the most influential and positive forces behind the kit.

Shortly after punk rock in the cultural zeitgeist at the end of the 1970s, she inspired musical sub-movements, which were driven by his “do-it-yourself”, community-sort of ethics: hardcore punk to hardcore, metalcore, emo, etc. For decades, this music genres developed in sound and scope, which developed from underground popularity in concerts in garages and cellars into a real mainstream -and refused to give up its independent ethos.

Thomas Gutches, who manages Beardooth and Archetypes, remembered a time when popular ligaments like The Devil Wears Prada in “Diy Shows” in his hometown Columbus, Ohio, had started to perform 10 bands for $ 5.

Shapiro “developed this next wave of bands that come in,” said Gutches. “He could take these bands with him, pack them up and bring them on a larger scale.

These artists reached a kind of apex in the 2000s and 2010s. Unique bands that had found the audience on early online social media platforms such as MySpace, in the Mall Goth Haven Hot Hot Topic or on the sides on the left in the M Center such as “Alternative Press” became MTV staples, their own celebrities.

Although many of these acts are similar and differentiating music thinking about the explosion strokes of Metalcore and the Power chords of POP-Punk that are associated with palm-mutated Power chords Vans distorted tour -They were brought together by a common punk rock spirit. And in the past few decades, these close -meshed groups have proven to be the dominant force in the alternative rock, said Mike Shea, founder of “Alternative Press”, who used the word “community” to describe the scene.

Shea said Shapiro was “important” to bring this punk rock into the masses.

“In this music industry there are simply too many people who tear down people and use people,” he said. “Dave was not like that. He was a beautiful soul and a beautiful person, a manager, only someone who would be an inspiration for so many people. And he will continue to be an inspiration.”

And it was not only musicians, but also many booking representatives, band and tour managers and sponsors who took their big breaks because of Shapiro, said Gutche.

The bands Shapiro shown are many of the most popular in their genre and scene, such as the Grammy-nominated sum 41 or the platinum-sold Pierce the Schleier.

This also includes Devil Wears Prada, one of the most famous metalcore bands of the past decades, which has been celebrated for their ability to marry melodic punk rock with a metallic move. When Williams “was in the band, they broke out,” said Shea.

Gutche said, Williams fascinated the audience on shows with his drums as well as the front man of a band: “Daniel made a show out of his playing style.”

The tributes are continued for both, said Shea, since more and more artists reveal the effects of Williams and Shapiro on their lives.

A typical example: “There is no single person who is responsible for my identity as a professional adult than Dave Shapiro,” said Metalcore Band, bassist Skyler Acord about Instagram.

His band shaped a sentence they would use when things got hot, “to remind us, relax and try to understand each other,” he wrote.

“We would say: 'Do it for Dave.'”

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The author of the Associated Press, Jaimie Ding in Los Angeles, contributed.