{"id":3739,"date":"2012-12-26T23:31:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T06:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2012-12-28T23:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:38:42","slug":"mike-scaccia-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/26\/mike-scaccia-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Scaccia Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/music-arts\/rigor-mortis-guitarist-collapses-stage-dies-article-1.1226627\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from the New York Daily News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Mike Scaccia, guitarist for Ministry and Rigor Mortis, collapses on stage, dies of sudden heart attack<\/h1>\n<p><em>BY\u00a0<a itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Ethan%20Sacks\" rel=\"author\">ETHAN SACKS\u00a0<\/a>\/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" title=\"HARRY CABLUCK\/AP\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.1226621.1356386848!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_635\/scaccia25f-1-web.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Scaccia, the guitarist for metal acts like Ministry, Rigor Mortis and the Revolting Cocks, reportedly died of a sudden heart attack caused by heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-seven-year-old Mike Scaccia suffered an apparent seizure on stage during a performance at the Rail Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blabbermouth.net\/news.aspx?mode=Article&amp;newsitemID=183979\" target=\"_blank\">Blabbermouth.net reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in Babylon, New York, Scaccia helped form thrash pioneers Rigor Mortis in 1983, but moved on to join the better-known Ministry six years later. Though he officially left that band in 1996, his blistering licks can be heard on Ministry\u2019s latest album, \u201cRelapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scaccia, who reformed Rigor Mortis in 2003, also played for the Revolting Cocks.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry lead singer Al Jourgensen posted a tribute to his longtime bandmate on the group\u2019s Facebook page Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMikey was not only the best guitar player in the history of music, but he was a close, close, close part of our family, and I just lost a huge chunk of my heart today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/music-arts\/rigor-mortis-guitarist-collapses-stage-dies-article-1.1226627\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Daily News Mike Scaccia, guitarist for Ministry and Rigor Mortis, collapses on stage, dies of sudden heart attack BY\u00a0ETHAN SACKS\u00a0\/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Mike Scaccia, the guitarist for metal acts like Ministry, Rigor Mortis and the Revolting Cocks, reportedly died of a sudden heart attack caused by heart disease. Forty-seven-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}