Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. The easy road would be to never return to the Czech Republic. Family and friends urged him to stay away. Lamb of God, based in Richmond, Virginia, had a rare day off. Instead, he found himself surrounded by Czech police — five of them in full gear with loaded machine guns — within seconds of walking off the plane.
One paper claimed he had punched Nosek before maliciously shoving him from the stage. On June 29, the police announced that they had formally charged Blythe under section 4 of the Czech Criminal Code, claiming the singer intentionally injured Nosek and ultimately caused his death.
If guilty, he was facing between five and 10 years in prison. The next day, the State Attorney filed a motion to keep Blythe in custody after determining that the vocalist was a flight risk. During that time, Blythe sat in prison, awaiting the next step of the process.
Under Czech law, once the bank received the bail money the State Attorney had three days to decide to accept the bail and let Blythe go until the trial or to challenge it with a written complaint.
Then, the bureaucratic delays began. The police who investigated the death had interviewed witnesses who were at the concert that night and they all pointed the finger at lamb of god singer Randy Blythe who they claimed pushed Nosek off the stage. The problem though was conflicting accounts over what happened. No one disputed blythe pushed him off stage, but it was a dispute over how he fell off stage that was a key point of contention.
One local newspaper claimed Blythe actually punched Nosek before shoving him back into the audience. The band was playing a pretty small venue with a really small stage and Blythe would describe how a number of fans kept bumping into him as they ran across the stage. Typically at every show Lamb of God has played they have a signed contract with the promoter and the contract explicitly states what the band requires.
One of those requirements is security that is well trained and barricades at the front of the stage to keep audience members back. Blythe would reveal that security is one thing that is never compromised for a show, but that night in Prague was different. Everytime he put his foot up on the front monitor it would get struck by fans.
After I hung up with Maria, I told my bandmates and crew about Paul, and spent the rest of the evening mostly out by our bus texting with various friends back home about his death.
I decided to take my first drink of the day and did a shot or two of Jagermeister in his honor because what makes more sense to an already depressed alcoholic when someone dies than to ingest a depressant? We left sometime around three or four a. The next day was spent riding the bus to Poland. I got stinking drunk and cried, listening to Slipknot on my iPod and writing bad lyrics in a notebook.
I was so sad that he was dead, that I would never get to speak to my friend again in this life; even as I sped toward my own doom in a shot glass full of black German cough syrup. That is truly all I remember of May 24, I only remember that much because it was our first time in Prague, security was so bad I had to wrestle some kid to the ground onstage, and Paul Gray died. It was a bad day, but I wish I could remember more of it.
I wish I could remember every second. Then maybe I would have had some real answers to all the impossible questions that were about to be asked of me. Randall Blythe. Reprinted courtesy of Da Capo Press. Tim Zuchowski. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator.
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