David Arquette is paying out tribute to his good buddy, Nuts City vocalist Shifty Shellshock. The “Butterfly” singer — whose real name was Seth Binzer — died at his LA home on Monday at age 49.
“I’m sending all my like to my brother Seth @therealcrazytown and his spouse and children. Shifty as I knew him when we to start with fulfilled during a graffiti battle in an LA lawn,” Arquette captioned a montage of pictures and films by means of Instagram on Thursday.
“He was such an amazing male with a huge coronary heart. We shared a ton of the exact struggles and I want his family to come across love and healing all through this agonizing time,” he continued.
“Thank you for these beautiful photographs @moonfrye Champions under no circumstances die they only go on to struggle someplace else. Appreciate you kid.”
Some of Arquette’s images with Shellshock incorporated hanging with actor Seth Green and “Punky Brewster” actress Soleil Moon Frye.
That exact working day, Shellshock’s band manager verified that the late musician died after taking a fatal “combination of prescription prescription drugs and avenue bought medicine,” he informed People today.
“Seth Binzer, immediately after struggling with habit and Ridiculous Town’s fast accomplishment with ‘Butterfly,’ under no circumstances was capable to arrive at out on a a lot more successful stage to deal with his addictions,” Howie Hubberman explained to the outlet. “We all attempted, but finally we all failed, or Shifty would however be below.”
The “Scream” actor, 52, opened up about his have battles all through an job interview with IndieWire in March 2020.
“I’ve been sober for long periods of time. I’ve gone by means of systems. I’ve examined what performs and what doesn’t for me. I have been using tobacco CBD with THC in it. Pot aids me with my moodiness. I get really moody and stressed. I’m definitely critical of myself occasionally,” he reported at the time. “I really do not like doing all these psychopharmaceuticals that mess with my ranges, due to the fact if I am performing, I want to be as insane and unfortunate as I can, or I want to be as pleased and as entire of really like when I can. I by no means smoke pot or consume when I’m working.”
At the time, Arquette claimed he no for a longer time drinks challenging liquor and doesn’t “drink a lot of beer,” but “it’s often a slippery slope.”
“Addiction is different for anyone and a good deal of people frown on what I’m expressing. I’m just striving to be truthful about it, so it’s not astonishing to any person,” he explained. “I fully grasp if persons will choose me for that, but I’m attempting to stay my life the very best I can. I have just never been a total-on sober man or woman.”
Shellshock, meanwhile, battled habit for a long time and appeared on both equally VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab” and its adhere to-up present, “Sober Dwelling,” twice.
In 2012, he was reportedly arrested for battery and cocaine possession. Per Variety, that exact same 12 months he was admitted to the medical center just after shedding consciousness and fell into a coma in advance of recovering.
Years later, he was arrested for a DUI in Los Angeles in 2022, and charged with one more DUI in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 2023.
The rapper’s team Ridiculous Town was formed in 1995 and are greatest known for their 2000 one “Butterfly,” which peaked at No. 1 on the US Billboard Very hot 100 for two nonconsecutive weeks. The band disbanded in 2003 and was renamed Crazy Town X by Shellshock when they reconciled in 2017.
Shellshock is survived by his three kids, Halo, Gage and Phoenix.
