Despised Icon former guitarist Yannick St. Amand loses home & studio in fire, GoFundMe available
Former original Despised Icon guitarist and producer Yannick St. Amand unfortunately lost his home, studio, and most of his and his family's belongings in a tragic home fire on March 20th.
In a recent interview, St. Amand shared the following:
The morale is still very good, we are all healthy, all together, it is important, the rest is only material, it is possible to rebuild everything, the important thing is family. It is a total loss in my instruments, my equipment, my speakers, my guitars, distortion pedals, etc, then years of work because on my hard drives, my computers were there. I lost forever the models of the next Slingshot Brother album we've been working on for a very long time.
A GoFundMe has been launched for St. Amand, his wife, and four children, here.
Despised Icon recently posted:
Last week, our beloved Yannick St-Amand, his wife, and four children suffered a great tragedy, losing their entire house and all of their belongings in a devastating fire. Yannick is literally the 7th member of our band. He's our original guitar player, he has produced all of our albums, plus he's our sound man when we play live and has done sound on every one of our live shows since our comeback in 2016. He is praised by many after every show for the quality of his work.
Even though Yannick and his family have insurance, there are a lot of things that aren't covered – like all of his music and sound equipment, IE; how he makes his living. Our love for Yannick and his family is immense and our hearts go out to him beyond measure. Please consider donating to this GoFundMe helping to raise funds to assist in the wake of this great loss.
20 comments
Post CommentLooking at that pic: which one of them rotten ass kids started the fire? I say youngest boy.
clicked the gofund me, don't speak french. have no f*cking clue what he's asking for. maybe a baguette and and some duck liver? no f*cking idea, i will send him a couple of hockey jersey's and a pair of 1998 ccm tacks's ice hockey skates.
why can't the Canadian government pay or do they just not care.
Insurance salesman here: they could (and should've) had an add-on policy to cover 'contents of home exceeding proportional value' (pg 99 paragraph 4 line 31) MEANING, you pay a few extra bottles of maple syrup to cover your extra pancakes f*cktard. It's not hard, a 'businessman' would understand this modest case of adulting. With that said- I'm glad to hear his family is ok.
who the f*ck is dumb enough not to insure your music equipment when it's how you make a living?
Remember the song of theirs thay went "Sever my tool, put it in a jar"
Do you think he lost a tool-in-a-jar during the blaze?
Don't post pictures of your kids online. I'm a 65 year old Swiss man on a trip in Thailand and here I am STARING at them
A Saint despises Jesus' Mother Mary during Holy Week and his house burns down.
Insurance should take care of everything. Brain Dead Libs.
4 kids on a musicians paycheck. Extreme metal to boot. Time to get smart commit some insurance fraud
Their shows do sound really good, I'll give em that
That sucks i hope they recover, i wonder if the canadian government will offer then MAID during these trouble times
^ Hey, remedial math student, 1,666 != 666. No one gives a f*ck about 1,666, it has no relation to anything.
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Go fund yourself.