A musician named Willian Hudson is allegedly the dude mainly responsible for beating up Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds in Las Vegas the morning after the MTV Video Music. The guitarist for the Nebraska-based Iron Maiden devotees, Cellador, is named William Hudson. But don’t jump to conclusions, as one radio DJ did.
“I got a call from a friend this morning,” the guitarist said in a statement to Blabbermouth.net. “He said he heard on a local radio station here in Omaha that I apparently got in a fight with a member of Mastodon and he was seriously injured.”
Hudson added that when he checked various metal message boards he found angry posts from Mastodon fans accusing him of kicking Hinds’ ass. He also received some nasty emails. “[People said] how much my band sucks and that I should fight him by myself,” he said.”
The report filed by police the night of the incident indicated that Hinds was drunk, removed his shirt and used it to smack both Hinds and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian. After Odadjian asked Hinds to calm down, Hinds refused and was punched in the face by both Hudson and Odadjian.
“First of all, I’ve never met anybody in System of a Down and I definitely wasn’t in Las Vegas during MTV’s Video Music Awards on September 10th,” insisted Cellador’s guitarist. “I was probably sleeping. I definitely don’t want Mastodon fans to get mad at me for something I haven’t done. This is just ridiculous, there are tons of people called William Hudson out there.”
Poor Bill. Maybe this’ll make him feel better — “Cellador’s video for “Leaving All Behind”:
