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Chuck Biscuits Alive and Well, Contrary to Reports

Posted on Oct 30th 2009 11:30AM by Chris Harris Comments

What do Kanye West and former Danzig and Social Distortion drummer Chuck Biscuits have in common? Within the last month, both have been the subject of online death hoaxes. The difference between Kanye's case and Biscuits'? No one reported West's death, but everyone and their brother ran posts Thursday, claiming the drummer (born Charles Montgomery) had died from throat cancer.

But Biscuits is alive. Very much so. The blogger who first ran an obituary on Biscuits, claiming he'd passed on Oct. 24 at the age of 44, surrounded by family members, is now recanting his initial report, which sparked a wave of erroneous reports on a number of reputable news sites. Noisecreep also ran a story on his passing.

But now, that blogger's claiming he's received statements from the drummer's family that he's OK. One email, from Chuck's sister-in-law, reads, "This note is on behalf of Bob Montgomery, who ask me (his wife) to let you know that Chuck is alive. Bob is on his way to see him now and will send you a follow up email in the near future." The blogger maintains he'd been in contact with a couple, claiming to be Chuck and his wife, since May and that he's been the victim of an "elaborate hoax," one he swears he was not in on.

"Chuck's wife is allegedly the one who has been sending out mass e-mails about Chuck's condition to family and friends; I didn't use her name below because I didn't know if she'd be comfortable with that, and it didn't seem like a good time to bring it up, considering her husband was dying," the blogger writes on his site. "I'm still not going to use her name on the same grounds."

The blogger then points out that he's not the most popular guy. "I know plenty of people who severely dislike me and would take any chance they could to play on my gullibility to make me look as stupid as possible (i.e. e-mail me for six months pretending to be a dying drummer I admire)," he defends. "If this is all a big fat lie, I'm sorry, but I promise I was duped just as hard as you."

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the freelancer's a creep. I think he made the whole thing up to invoke controversy, get his name in the media, and to make money. As a writer, I verify sources and content... why the hell would he pass on info like that without fact checking for validity? Chuck Biscuit's popular to punks and to a sliver of mainstream music lovers, but obscure enough that the freelancer could get away with a scam like tht for awhile... however, Biscuit is also accessible enough to find verification. Ask his former bandmates. Ask his friends. Don't just start making press releases... Now the freelancer is going to get interviews and play victim and get attention... but i will never acknowledge his name or occupation. As a long-time punk only a year older than Bicuits, i was upset by reports of his death... That's my era and my age-bracket, and it was awful to think he'd died. I think they need to investigate the freelancer blogger and not let him off the hook so easily because he cites an "anonymous family member" as a source for bicuit info... that's all. i'm peeved. love, sarah m. daugherty, mfa

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