Former Weezer Bass Player Mikey Welsh Dead At 40

Posted on Oct 09, 2011 @ 08:00AM

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Mikey Welsh, who played with the group Weezer, has died in Chicago of a suspected drug overdose.

Welsh played with the iconic band from 1998 to 2001, and after suffering a nervous breakdown and talking openly about his addiction to drugs, found a new career as an artist.

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He lived in Burlington, Vermont and was in Chicago to see his old band. He was found unresponsive in his hotel room.

In a shockingly eerie Tweet, on September 26, Welsh wrote, "dreamt i died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today."

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Wow...R.I.P.

by CaughtaLiteSneeze
Posted Sun, 10/09/2011 - 11:13pm

Once a junkie, always a junkie. Which is why society should just let them die.

by bob johnson
Posted Sun, 10/09/2011 - 2:59pm

Oh well thins the heard. RIP

by Great
Posted Sun, 10/09/2011 - 2:31pm

So many young people dead from drugs..such a waste of life..their whole lives ahead of them..DONT TAKE DRUGS..DRUGS DESTROY,,anyone offering them to you is out to make money off your misery or to destroy you

by earlybird
Posted Sun, 10/09/2011 - 2:15pm