{"id":26151,"date":"2015-03-24T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=26151"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:27:00","slug":"news-former-death-bassist-scott-clendenin-dies-at-age-of-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-former-death-bassist-scott-clendenin-dies-at-age-of-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DEATH Bassist Scott Clendenin Dies Aged 47 (March 24th, 2015) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>Former DEATH Bassist Scott Clendenin Dies Aged 47<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>March 24th, 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/death_scottclendeninphotonews.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scott Clendenin, erstwhile bassist for defunct Tampa, Florida-based death metal group Death, passed away on March 24th, 2015 at the age of 47.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Greif, the former manager of Death and president of Perseverance Holdings Ltd., which manages Chuck Schuldiner\u2019s (late Death \/ Control Denied guitarist and vocalist) estate, issued the following statement: \u201cWith a sense of shock, I\u2019m letting all of you know of the passing today of former Death bassist Scott Clendenin. Scott had some health challenges in the last few years but was optimistic about his prospects. Of course he was the skilled player on <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-death-the-sound-of-perseverance-2011-reissue\/\"><em>The Sound Of Perseverance<\/em><\/a> Death album (1998), and recently participated in two DTA (Death To All) live runs, in 2012 and 2013, including the highlight of his acoustic guitar in a poignant rendition of \u2018Voice Of The Soul\u2019. Our thoughts go out to Scott\u2019s family at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clendenin also played in Chuck Schuldiner\u2019s side project Control Denied between 1997 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service for Scott Clendenin was held on March 29th, 2015 in the Valicenti Pavilion at Sand Point Park in Titusville, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DEATH Bassist Scott Clendenin Dies Aged 47 March 24th, 2015 Scott Clendenin, erstwhile bassist for defunct Tampa, Florida-based death metal group Death, passed away on March 24th, 2015 at the age of 47. Eric Greif, the former manager of Death and president of Perseverance Holdings Ltd., which manages Chuck Schuldiner\u2019s (late Death \/ Control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1840],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82594,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions\/82594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}