Bass player Rex Brown has officially departed Down, the band he started with fellow former Pantera member Phil Anselmo in the early ’90s.
Brown confirmed his departure to Patrick Musumeche of 8countnews.com. “Down’s not officially over. I’m just officially out of the band,” Brown said. “Things came to a head and they’re better off doing what they’re doing. They’ve got Patrick Bruders playing bass and I kind of lost my passion after a while. There were some other problems that we had to address and it just turned out better that we just parted ways.”
Brown took time out of the band after a serious bout of pancreatitis in 2009, and stayed off the road while sorting out some personal issues. Brown confirmed tensions within the band in a recent interview with Focus In The Mix with Denise Ames when he spoke of a rift with Anselmo: “We’re having a little marital spat, so… I’ll just leave it at that. I’m in the doghouse,” Brown said.
Down was formed in 1991 as a side project of Pantera’s Anselmo and Brown and Corrosion of Conformity’s Pepper Keenan. They have broken up and reformed twice and have released three studio albums, NOLA (1995), Down II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow (2002) and Down III: Over The Under (2007).
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