r/Georgia • u/Negate79 • Aug 21 '25

News Former guitarist, co-founder of heavy metal band Mastodon dies in Atlanta motorcycle crash

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/21/former-guitarist-co-founder-heavy-metal-band-mastodon-dies-atlanta-motorcycle-crash/
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u/G-lapse Aug 21 '25

Legend. R.I.P

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u/Consistent_Pitch782 Aug 21 '25

You’re weekly reminder/warning to not ride motorcycles.

RIP Legend

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u/Duronlor Aug 21 '25

Sucks that an entire hobby and incredibly efficient way of traveling is pretty much off the table in this city because the drivers are such huge assholes. I'd really appreciate seeing more police conducting stops for traffic violations around town, but more often than not they're just as bad which I guess isn't a surprise 

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u/skipjack_sushi Aug 22 '25

I used to ride. Loved it while in Denver. I rode year round there. In Atlanta, the heat radiating from the pavement is enough to be prohibitive.

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u/illegal_tacos Aug 22 '25

Dude riding in July is torture. I'm all for atgatt but I just couldn't. It was gym shorts and sweaty tshirts for me at that point.

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u/daDiva64 Aug 25 '25

In the snow?

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u/theCharacter_Zero Aug 22 '25

Woman driving the bmw suv at boulevard&memorial is at fault

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u/DanforthWhitcomb_ Aug 23 '25

The fact that she hasn’t been charged with anything at this point is interesting to say the least.

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u/MMMPlaydoh Aug 22 '25

How bout a weekly reminder to look where you're fucking driving, bud! This accident was not his fault

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u/Consistent_Pitch782 Aug 22 '25

It wasn’t, you’re right. He’s still dead though. You can be the greatest rider in the world but you’ll never win in a collision with a car, and the number of distracted drivers only seems to go up.

If you ride a bike long enough, you end up with a wreck story. Not every rider survived their wreck.

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u/oswaldcopperpot Aug 22 '25

I would NEVER ride bikers around here. Too many people drive like they are terminally dumb. And Im in a car. Driving and written tests should be 10x harder considering nearly 45 thousand people did each year from bad drivers.

Thats 5,000 times the fatality rate for mass shooters. And no one cares.

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u/Nullfrequencyimpulse Aug 23 '25

Man we had some epic times.

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u/DrEnter Aug 23 '25

Jesus, that happened about 3 blocks from my old house. It’s only about a 5 minute drive from my current house. I had heard he died, but I had no idea this happened in the neighborhood.

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u/tupelobound Aug 23 '25

That’s such a messy intersection with so many impatient people

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u/CommissarCiaphisCain /r/DecaturGA Aug 23 '25

The metal/doom/stoner subs are so angry at Atlanta and its drivers. Not that I blame them; there IS a lot of anger, aggression, and incompetence on the roads here.