Sleazeroxx — Ex-Grim Reaper guitarist Nick Bowcott was recently interviewed by Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon for Canada’s The Metal Voice. Bowcott‘s former Grim Reaper bandmate Steve Grimmett passed away at the age of 62 from heart related complications back on August 15, 2022. Grim Reaper featuring Grimmett on lead vocals and Bowcott on guitar released three studio albums back in the 80’s consisting of See You In Hell (1983), Fear No Evil (1985) and Rock You To Hell (1987).

Grimmett‘s funeral will take place on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 and will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am EST / 2:00 pm UK time. You can contribute to the funeral expenses via a GoFundMe page that was created by Rachel Thomas on behalf of Grimmett‘s wife and now widow Millie Grimmett.

Bowcott spoke about how he was going to assist the Grimmett family with the funeral and aftermath expenses. The guitarist stated (as transcribed by Sleaze Roxx):

“I’ll let something out of the bag now. One of the blessings Covid gave me and I mean this sincerely was it enabled me to do some quarantine jams. I did it with a mutual friend of [Steve Grimmett] and mine called Steve Stein. He’s a great guitar player, great Youtuber and him and Steve [Grimmett] did an album called Grimstein way back when, maybe about 10 years ago. When Covid first hit and the lockdown started, Steve Stein phoned me up and said hey I’m going to do a quarantine jam. He said ‘Would you like to be involved?’ and I went ‘I would love to be involved. What’s the song?’ He said ‘Heaven and Hell’ and my brain immediately started to make excuses as to why I couldn’t do it if it’s going to be an okay singer. I was thinking God, if he tells me someone who I don’t think can match the vocals, I’m gonna have to be busy that day painting. So then he said ‘Good question. Steve‘. I said ‘Steve Grimmett?’ He said, ‘Yeah’ [and] I said ‘I’m in!’”


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