SKID ROW’s SCOTTI HILL Misses Kentucky Concert After Testing Positive For COVID-19 (Video)

SKID ROW guitarist Scotti Hill was pressured to overlook the band’s live performance final evening (Saturday, April 30) at Paramount Arts Heart in Ashland, Kentucky after testing optimistic for COVID-19, the illness brought on by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Filling in for him was certainly one of SKID ROW‘s guitar techs.

SKID ROW singer Erik Grönwall addressed Hill‘s absence earlier than launching into the band’s basic music “18 And Life”. He instructed the group: “Sadly, Scotti obtained COVID and he is dwelling and resting. And fortuitously, we’ve got the most effective and coolest fucking crew on the planet. So this man proper right here, that man is normally a guitar tech however he is an superior fucking guitar participant. And this man realized all the songs in lower than a day. Give it up for Casey, all people, c’mon. What a fucking hero.”

Grönwall joined SKID ROW in January because the substitute for ZP Theart, who had been within the group for greater than six years. Theart performed his remaining gig with SKID ROW in February earlier than being formally given the boot.

In late March, SKID ROW launched its first single with Grönwall, “The Gang’s All Right here”. The music is the title observe of the band’s upcoming album, which can arrive on October 14 through earMUSIC.

SKID ROW recorded most of “The Gang’s All Right here” in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who has beforehand labored with FOO FIGHTERS, STONE SOUR, HALESTORM, EVANESCENCE, RUSH and ALICE IN CHAINS, amongst many others.

Grönwall was a member of the Swedish onerous rock band H.E.A.T. with whom he recorded 4 studio albums — “Tackle The Nation” (2012),“Tearing Down The Partitions” (2014),“Into The Nice Unknown” (2017) and “H.E.A.T II” (2020) — earlier than exiting the group in October 2020.

Grönwall was identified with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March 2021. Six months later, he introduced that he was most cancers free after receiving a bone marrow transplant in August. “Some nameless fantastic human being someplace on the planet donated his/her blood cells in order that I may get a second likelihood at life,” he instructed Headbangers Life-style in January. “Generally I can simply get tears in my eyes once I give it some thought. It is so lovely that one one who just isn’t linked to me in any means needed to try this for me. He/she does not know that the blood cells have been for me. It is utterly nameless.”

Final September, Grönwall launched his cowl model of “18 And Life” through all streaming platforms.

In 2018, Grönwall debuted within the U.S. for 10 million viewers in NBC‘s stay broadcast of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s and Tim Rice‘s musical “Jesus Christ Celebrity”. Together with John Legend, Alice Cooper, Sara Bareilles and others, Erik performed the important thing function of Simon Zealotes.