Report: Vinnie Paul suffered a "major heart attack"

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, sources who knew Vinnie Paul Abbott says the old PANTERA The drummer had suffered "a major heart attack" when he died in his sleep on Friday, June 22 at his home in Las Vegas. He was 54 years old.

Vinnie Paulthe body was turned over to the medical examiner to determine an official cause of death, TMZ reported. After that, he will be repatriated to his home state of Texas to be buried between his mother and his brother.

"It's such a shock because he was so excited to finish the[New[new[Nouveau[newHELLYEAH]album and come back on the road, "singer Franky Perez (APOCALYPTICA, VELVET REVOLVER), a longtime friend of Vinnie Paul& # 39; s, said at Las Vegas Journal Review. "I'm always trying to piece this together."

In a 2014 interview with "The Jasta show", Vinnie Paul lamented that the "fun side of rock and roll" seemed to be lacking in many tours, with most musicians preferring to relax on their buses and catch up with their loved ones instead of participating in the kind of debauchery that has been adopted in the years 80 and most of the 90s.

"The bands that are here these days do not look like what they were, and that really stops you from having tours and stuff," Vinnie I said. "I mean, you can not be the GUNS N 'ROSES kind of party group that was there. "

Vinnie, whose group HELLYEAH had just completed a tour in the United States as an act of support for FIVE POINTS OF FINGAL DEATH at the time of the interview, continued: "I mean, I always drink every night and I like it, but it would not be good for me to go stumble in FIVE FINGERSSkunk's dressing room is drunk and blew for everyone, because it may affect their performance. People have a lot on the line with these tours these days, and they really do not want that fun side of rock and roll. I mean, it scares me, man. "

He added, "I remember, in 1999, when we did the last Ozzfest that we were part of, and I think DISTURBED was on it, STATIC-Xobviously Ozzywe, and we were the only group on the tour that had a rider who had alcohol. No one else had it. And I am, like, what's going on? I mean, it's 99. And I'm trippin ', and I'm, kind, & # 39; Man, that's not what it was. & # 39; These guys finish their set, they go out on their bus and play Nintendo or call their girlfriends. What happened to rock and roll, dude? I go out every night in titty bars, I go to rock bars, I'll sit with groups, I drink my ass. Once I'm done, I'm done. I am ready to have a good time.

"The most important thing about drinking on the road is that you have to do it in moderation, first of all," he said. "You have to know your limits, do not wake up with a bottle of vodka in hand, you get up every day, you rehydrate and you get ready for this concert, it's the most important thing. percent when you are wasted there, it does not work, man. "

After the host Jamey Jasta told Vinnie that the drummer had a tolerance to "superhuman" alcohol, Vinnie says: "Knock on wood, I have not had liver problems yet, but I drink a lot of water, I drink vodka and water, I drink Pedialyte and I drink drink pickle juice and I do all those things that rehydrate.Vodka is a lot easier for your system than black whiskey and other things, so I think it allows me to be "superhuman But I think that if other people were doing the same kind of diet, it would not be But I see people all the time who do not drink and they go out and burn their heads and it erases them during two or three days.

More than a decade after witnessing the murder of his brother, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, while they were both playing in an Ohio club, Vinnie Paul said to "Talk Is Jericho" podcast that he always felt "like a 19-year-old child. Everything I do, I'm approaching the same way," he said. "I'm not married, I do not have children, I've been married to music all my life, I've devoted myself to that, I know what it takes to do and since my brother was taken from me, I feel that I have to live for both of us and I bring it wherever I go, everything I do, and I think it's there with we, to watch ourselves and enjoy everything that happens, man.

Vinnie Paul and his trained brother PANTERA In the 1980s their father was Jerry Abbott, a successful country songwriter whose songs have been recorded by the likes of Emmylou Harris and Freddy Fender.

Vinnie Paul was most recently in the group HELLYEAH next to Mudvayne singer Chad Gray and Nothingface guitarist Tom Maxwell.