{"id":16650,"date":"2010-11-03T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2010-11-03T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:45:00","slug":"mushroomhead-former-guitarist-dead-at-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=16650","title":{"rendered":"MUSHROOMHEAD &#8211; Former Guitarist Dead At 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z89\/themetalden2007\/imagesqtbnANd9GcQUBDc5vER1drZB9FQJI3z0cv-crDCe8R1LG1YYXqbCOncyfrUt1usg__mTxsFgMz7S1aOkY5RltsrNV0608.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDen Headz, former MUSHROOMHEAD guitarist and founding member John E. Sekula (a.k.a. JJ Righteous) passed away on Thursday, October 28 at the age of 41.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSekula played guitar on Mushroomhead&#8217;s first three albums &#8211; 1995&#8217;s &#8220;Mushroomhead&#8221;, 1996&#8217;s &#8220;Superbuick&#8221; and 1999&#8217;s &#8220;M3&#8221;. He was also a member of State Of Conviction, which is fronted by former Mushroomhead vocalist Jason Popson.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBesides music in John&#8217;s life, he was passionate about painting he was a painter by trade and has had his hand in painting many custom homes over the years.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA visitation is being held on Wednesday, November 3 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Busch Funeral Home in Parma, Ohio. A memorial service will follow from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCheck out the John E. Sekula tribute page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tributes.com\/show\/John-Sekula-89691938\">Tributes.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/mushroomhead\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/mushroomhead<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Headz, former MUSHROOMHEAD guitarist and founding member John E. Sekula (a.k.a. JJ Righteous) passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}