Drowning Pool Bassist Speaks On Stolen Gear

Band Photo: Drowning Pool (?)

The Pulse of Radio reports: DROWNING POOL was hit with a run of bad luck in the last month and a half, with bassist Stevie Benton stricken with a case of Bell's Palsy onstage and the band's gear getting ripped off not once, but twice. In addition to speakers, drums and other equipment, Benton himself lost four customized Lakeland basses that were his favorites. He told The Pulse of Radio he desperately wants them back. "It's not just the fact of having to go buy new gear," he said. "It's just that, you know, these basses were perfect for me, exactly the way I wanted them and, you know, sentimental value and all that kind of stuff, you know. I'm putting off going and buying anything else, just in the hopes that I can recover them 'cause, you know, I just want them back. No questions asked, no money issue, nothing, you know. I just want those four basses."

Benton was stricken with Bell's Palsy, a nerve disorder which causes partial paralysis of the face, while playing a show in December. Doctors ordered him off the road for six weeks.

DROWNING POOL's rehearsal space was robbed the day before Thanksgiving and then again right before Christmas. The band is asking anyone with information about the stolen gear to contact the Dallas police department or send an email through the band's MySpace page.

DROWNING POOL are no strangers to bad luck, losing original singer Dave Williams to heart disease in 2002.

The band will head out on the road with SALIVA for eight weeks, beginning on February 1 in Atlanta, as it continues promoting its latest album, "Full Circle".

Source: Blabbermouth