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Why Hawthorne Heights will prevail
Hawthorne Heights will continue making music, and they can thank their fans for the motivation to move past their recent tragedy.
Forums on the Hawthorne Heights website (www.hawthorneheights.com) are filled with fans from coast to coast who miss the late Casey Calvert, the Hawthorne Heights guitarist who passed away in November.
One fan from Rhode Island writes “Dear Casey, you changed me so much and you will always be in my heart.”
Another fan from Ohio wrote “Casey had a huge impact on mine and my friends lives, thank you.”
Other fans have wrote songs remembering the guitarist and one fan created a tribute page to Calvert on myspace.com.
There are nearly 700 posts from fans inspiring the band to move forward and continue in Calvert’s shadow.
Calvert passed in his sleep while the band was on tour in Washington DC. The coroner said the cause of death was accidental drug interaction.
The band has made brief statements about his passing, but none was more personal than the blog the band posted a month ago on myspace.com entitled “Happy Holidays.”
Drummer Eron Bucciarelli wrote “No one should ever have to go through losing anyone prematurely, but sadly, it happens and its something we’ve had to deal with on more than one occasion. It hasn’t been easy, but witnessing people come together, putting aside their differences, sharing their stories and uniting under their love of Casey has been extremely uplifting. I’ve cried and laughed at all of the stories and in every instance I can remember the exact situation (or similar one) being described in near vivid detail. Its unfortunate that it takes a tragedy to put everything into perspective and even more unfortunate that we let trivial matters run our daily lives to the extent that we forget how precious and fragile life really is.”
It sounds as though the band knows their fan’s support has been the band-aid they have needed to begin healing.
Eron finishes his blog by saying “On behalf of our whole band, I want to send a big thank you to all of our loved ones, families, friends, fans, management, for being so supportive while we deal with our loss and figure everything out in the wake. To say we’re grateful for everything would be an understatement.”
The band has also managed to post a brand new song on myspace. The song, called Come Back Home New, begins with the line “come back home/you’re all alone and everybody’s waiting.”
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By Anthony
January 28, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
Not trying to be a bearer of bad news on such a sensitive subject, but Come Back Home has been posted for months. They had that song up for sharing before Casey’s passing. From what I understand they have more songs than they know what to do with for a new record. They just have label issues still.