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Dave Shapiro, a groundbreaking euphony enforcement successful the dense metallic and hard stone scene, has died successful a San Diego level crash. He was 42.
Shapiro had a pilot’s licence and was listed arsenic the proprietor of the level that crashed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The euphony bureau Sound Talent Group confirmed Shapiro died successful the Thursday greeting clang on with 2 employees.
"We are devastated by the nonaccomplishment of our co-founder, colleagues and friends,” the bureau said successful a statement.
Shapiro cofounded Sound Talent Group successful 2018 with Tim Borror and Matt Andersen. The agency’s roster focuses connected alternate bands crossed pop-punk, metalcore, post-hardcore and different fashionable hard stone subgenres. Clients person included Hanson, Pierce The Veil, Parkway Drive, Sum 41 and Vanessa Carlton.
Shapiro was a beardown advocator for autarkic musicians and a co-founder of the National Independent Talent Organization. He was included successful Billboard's 2012 “30 Under 30” database recognizing rising stars successful entertainment. Industry veterans accidental Shapiro paved the mode for the enactment of different autarkic agencies and helped galore alternate bands find audiences successful the mainstream.
“Finding thing you emotion to bash is lone going to marque you bash a amended occupation due to the fact that you really care. You’re not conscionable showing up for the paycheck, it’s not a 9-to-5,” helium said successful a euphony manufacture podcast successful 2021. “This is portion of surviving your beingness if you truly emotion it.”
Shapiro grew up successful upstate New York successful the “straightedge hard-core” scene, a subculture that promotes not utilizing drugs and intoxicant successful absorption to mainstream punk.
In precocious school, helium started a set with his friends and got signed with Victory Records close erstwhile they graduated. They toured for a fewer years, during which helium made connections successful the euphony manufacture that would assistance his foray into the concern side.
Shapiro said helium became instantly hooked connected aviation aft taking his archetypal intro formation astatine property 22. He seemed to emotion euphony and flying with adjacent passion, astatine 1 constituent opening an bureau of his endowment bureau astatine a hangar successful San Diego.
Flying “helps maine absorption and helps maine not beryllium distracted by each the nonsense successful the world, and whatever’s going connected extracurricular the level benignant of doesn’t substance successful those moments,” Shapiro said successful a 2020 podcast interview.
Shapiro owned a formation schoolhouse called Velocity Aviation and a grounds label, Velocity Records.
He offered flights successful some San Diego and Homer, Alaska, wherever helium and his wife, Julia Pawlik Shapiro, owned a home, according to his online posts.
Shapiro joined his woman successful 2016 successful the tiny municipality of Talkeetna, Alaska. They picked up their wedding licenses, got connected a level and flew to a glacier wrong Denali National Park, landing with skis strapped to the plane’s wheels.
“When I met Dave, we became instantly bonded implicit the unconventional lifestyles we pb and our changeless request for adventure,” she wrote successful a blog post.
In 2019, helium posted connected Instagram that helium had obtained his hose transport aviator rating, the highest level of certification issued by the U.S.
“Although I person a vocation and don’t program to alteration that I ever privation to larn much and beryllium a amended pilot,' helium wrote. He was besides an adrenaline junkie who enjoyed base-jumping.
Tributes poured successful Thursday from musicians and others successful the manufacture who called him warm, genuine and idiosyncratic who helped little-known bands enactment their names connected the map.
“He would perceive to immoderate set you enactment successful beforehand of him to springiness them a chance,” said Dayna Ghiraldi-Travers, laminitis of nationalist relations bureau Big Picture Media, who worked with Shapiro for implicit 15 years.
Nate Blasdell, erstwhile pb guitarist for the set I Set My Friends connected Fire, said helium was “absolutely heartbroken."
“Dave was the archetypal booking cause I ever worked with and helium was a large portion of my euphony vocation successful my precocious teen years,” helium said successful a station connected the societal level X. “He was genuinely the champion successful the crippled and 1 of the astir respected radical successful the industry.”
Sum 41 vocalist Deryck Whibley credits Shapiro to helping physique the stone set backmost up during a “low point” successful their career.
“His sentiment mattered truthful overmuch to me,” Whibley said. “He was that feline I would spell to for proposal connected things.”
During their past conversation, Shapiro had flown retired successful his caller level to spot Sum 41's induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame successful March. He promised Whibley to beryllium back.
“Me and my wife, we’re going to alert to you," Whibley said Shapiro said to him. “We’re going to prime you up and we’re going to spell determination brainsick for lunch.”
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Associated Press writer Maria Sherman contributed to this report.
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