Burned

MTV just burned Butch Walker worse than the Malibu fires did to his home. The headline on MTV.com is Avril Lavigne Producer Butch Walker Was Renting Flea's Malibu House; He 'Lost Everything'.



Any Butch Walker fan will tell you that headline should read

"Best frontman of our generation, Butch Walker...."

"The producer who can make anyone sound great, Butch Walker..."

"The songwriter no one can penn a better Pop tune than, Butch Walker..."

I think you get the point. Butch deserves recognition and acclaim for a whole lot more than just working with Avril. So much that I am resurrecting a tribute we did to him in a print edition of Planet Verge two years ago and putting it online.

Read. Learn. Listen.


http://www.planetverge.com/pv07/interviews/ButchWalker.asp



It's awful that Butch lost all his creations. His music has shaped all our lives and we're lucky to be able to experience it firsthand.

When it all comes down to it, material things don't matter. It's the memories from the road, the feelings of seeing people's smiling faces while you perform for them, the little things that shape your live and who you are. For all of us, not just Butch.


Events like this really make you appreciate what you have and who is in your life. Live your dream...and all that.

If anyone has pictures or things you'd like to send to Butch- memories for him-- contact us at planetverge@gmail.com and we'll send it over.


*joelle



And here's the MTV article:


In a tragic turn of events, it has come to light that the rental home owned by Flea that burned in the Malibu, California, wildfires over the weekend was being occupied by Avril Lavigne producer Butch Walker — and he lost everything in the blaze.

Walker was touring New York at the time of the incident, and "had just consolidated my entire recording studio and house from Atlanta into the one house in Malibu," the songwriter/producer, who has also worked with Pink, Fall Out Boy, the Academy Is..., Tommy Lee and others, said in a press release. "I lost everything I've ever owned. Every master of every song I've ever recorded, every piece of recording equipment, guitars, drums and things I've collected over the years, cars, motorcycles, every family memorial, heirloom, picture and document we ever had. ... Gone. I feel like I finally know the difference between 'going back' and 'going home.' "

Over the weekend, Flea said in a text message obtained by the Los Angeles Times that his $4.8 million home in Corral Canyon was "burnt to a crisp" by the fires on Saturday morning. According to TMZ.com, a second, $10 million Malibu home owned by Flea — the one in which he currently resides — did not burn. The one that did was a house that the bassist had been renting — most recently to Walker — and currently has up for sale, the site reports.

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose also had a close call when the fires burned his roof and singed some of his property. According to a report on KCAL-TV, Rose's assistant said the rocker "was with the hose everywhere" on his property, fighting to save his home.

The fires, which have largely been contained, were the worst in Malibu in years, according to the Times. In late October, another series of fires forced evacuations in the area but hit the San Diego area much harder.