1. Bobby Gustafson was the rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Vio-lence from 2020 until 2022.
16 Facts About Bobby Gustafson
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Bobby Gustafson joined Overkill at 17 years old after an audition, when the band was still playing only covers, coming from the garage band The Dropouts.
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Bobby Gustafson stimulated the other members to produce original music and was a key member in the Overkill quartet, having been a composer from the band's debut album Feel the Fire in 1985 to their most commercially successful album, The Years of Decay, in 1989.
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Bobby Gustafson had continued to feud with Ellsworth and Verni within the next two-and-a-half decades, and claimed on his Facebook account in March 2018 that he had not received his share of royalties for his songs with Overkill.
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Bobby Gustafson has a problem with me; I don't have a problem with him.
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However, Bobby Gustafson rejected the proposal, feeling that Overkill was turning big.
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Bobby Gustafson claimed in a 2020 interview on Exodus frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza's Toxic Vault podcast that he auditioned for Metallica as James Hetfield's temporary replacement, following the latter's recovery from being burned onstage during their 1992 tour with Guns N' Roses, but lost this position to then-Metal Church guitarist and one-time Metallica guitar technician John Marshall.
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Immediately after the split with Overkill, Bobby Gustafson went on tour with Cycle Sluts from Hell in Europe.
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Bobby Gustafson later tried to form a side-project with Exodus drummer Tom Hunting called I4NI.
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Bobby Gustafson played in the industrial metal band Skrew album Shadow of Doubt in 1996, replacing their guitarist for the recording of the album.
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Bobby Gustafson then relocated in Florida and left the music business for a while.
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Bobby Gustafson returned to the music industry in 2003 by joining the Florida-based band Response Negative, and has released two albums under the moniker Satans Taint: Axe to the Head of My Enemies and Destruction Ritual.
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Bobby Gustafson has worked for his family plumbing business in Florida.
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On January 27,2020, it was announced that Bobby Gustafson would be temporarily filling in for Ray Vegas in Vio-lence.
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Bobby Gustafson was eventually confirmed as a permanent member of the band, and appeared on their first song in more than two decades, a cover of Dead Kennedys' "California uber alles".
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Bobby Gustafson appears on the band's EP Let the World Burn.