{"id":56526,"date":"2024-01-09T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/?p=56526"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:18:29","slug":"muere-james-kottak-ex-baterista-de-scorpions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/muere-james-kottak-ex-baterista-de-scorpions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Scorpions drummer James Kottak dies at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\" translation-block\"><strong>James Kottak<\/strong>, who was known as the drummer for Scorpions, Kingdom Come, Warrant and more, died today at the age of 61 in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. So far, the causes of his death have not been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\"><strong>Kottak<\/strong> came to <strong>Scorpions<\/strong> in 1996 and spent two decades as part of the German band until 2016, when he was fired for his constant problems with alcohol and replaced by Mikkey Dee. It is not known that alcoholism had anything to do with his death, but it is known that he had been sober since October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scorpions wrote: Very sad news. Our dear friend and drummer of 20 years, James Kottak, passed away at the age of 61. James was a wonderful human being, a great musician and a loving family man, he was our \u201cbrother from another mother\u201d and we will miss him very much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-gestor-del-servicio wp-block-embed-gestor-del-servicio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Scorpions\/posts\/pfbid06fa8MPQ9mBvc2EBBLrRnT1ZvUBL7d7jh2Qu27URoj3yb1Adh3QQ7TkiVvFob4umbl\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Kottak, quien fuera conocido por ser baterista de Scorpions, Kingdom Come, Warrant y m\u00e1s, muri\u00f3 el d\u00eda de hoy a los 61 a\u00f1os de edad en su ciudad natal, \u00a0Louisville, Kentuky. Hasta el momento, no se han revelado las causas de su fallecimiento. Kottak lleg\u00f3 a Scorpions en 1996 y estuvo dos d\u00e9cadas como parte de la banda alemana hasta 2016, cuando fue despedido por sus constantes problemas con el alcohol y reemplazado por Mikkey Dee. No se conoce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2707,171,260],"tags":[4657,268],"class_list":["post-56526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-heavy-metal","category-new","tag-james-kottak","tag-scorpions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56529,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56526\/revisions\/56529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summainferno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}