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Hawthorne Heights Remember Casey Calvert: A Man ‘On The Same Level As The Kids We Played For’
MTV News Exclusive: Hawthorne Heights and Casey Calvert’s wife Ashley talk to John Norris.
HAMILTON, Ohio It was one of those odd quirks of fate the kind of coincidence you just can’t plan. For a week my producer Monty and I had planned to travel to, of all places, Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday, to catch up with, of all people, Jenna Bush. The president’s younger twin has turned author, penning “Ana’s Story,” a heartfelt book for teens about a young HIV-positive woman she met while volunteering with UNICEF in Latin America. Dayton was the latest stop on an extended book tour that the first daughter has been conducting to launch “Ana’s Story,” and we were promised 20 minutes with her which we got, and you’ll see more on that in coming days here and on MTV.
But Southwest Ohio also happens to be the home of Hawthorne Heights, the rock band that this past weekend suffered the sudden death of its guitarist and “screamer,” Casey Calvert. Calvert’s passing in Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon, only hours prior to the second date of Hawthorne Heights’ Wintour ’07, was referred to by the band, in an official statement on its Web site, as “unexplainable,” and in fact the cause is still a mystery. An official for the city’s medical examiner’s office says that the actual cause of death may not be known for as long as 90 days.
Read the full article www.mtv.com/news/articles/1575274/20071129/hawthorne_heights.jhtmlhere.