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Bret “Epic” Mazur — who shaped Loopy City with Shifty Shellshock — talked to his late ex-bandmate a number of months earlier than he died … and says SS appeared upbeat in regards to the future.
We caught up with Epic Tuesday within the studio — and he tells TMZ … Shifty was truly stoked about making new music after they final spoke over the telephone, and there was no indication Shifty was in a nasty area, or going by means of one thing out of the unusual.
TMZ broke the story … cops are trying into Shifty’s sudden dying Monday as a doable deadly overdose. However primarily based on what his former bandmate’s saying right here … Seth was removed from that actuality.
Epic tells us nothing of their conversations led him to imagine one thing ugly was up in Shifty’s private life … and he is completely shocked by Shifty’s passing — to not point out devastated.
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They based Loopy City collectively method again in 1995 — and Epic tells us they have been first launched by means of will.i.am — and whereas they hadn’t each been within the group for the previous decade, Epic says they nonetheless stored in contact … often bouncing concepts about music round.
Epic is remembering Shifty’s legacy right here too … telling us a few of Shifty’s crazier concepts for band promotions. Take a pay attention — it is fairly cool storytelling, and a fantastic Shifty reminiscence.
Get this … Epic says Shifty needed the band to get right into a police pursuit in Los Angeles as a method to promote their debut album … simply an instance of how he says Shifty put the “loopy” in Loopy City, and why he actually embodied the spirit of the group.
It is an fascinating and insightful convo … and Epic remembers all the nice instances they’d within the studio. You possibly can inform he is unhappy over the premature passing of his previous pal.
Shifty was solely 49.
