He had worked on tours for the Black Keys, Panic at the Disco and Alice in Chains. Later, news emerged that Nick Alexander, the band's 36-year-old merchandising manager for their European tour, was among the dead. His family confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. I would say everyone in that theater had a close call." Ian Hughes told The Desert Sun, "Not sure where the info about Jesse being shot came from. However, Facebook posts from opening act Red Lemons and the brother of EODM singer Jesse Hughes indicate the band made it out of the Bataclan safely, laying to rest rumors that he'd been hit.
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The band's social media accounts have not provided a definitive update on their condition.
(Britain's Guardian and CNBC put the tally of dead concertgoers at 87.) Now they will probably always be remembered as the group that was playing at the time ISIS terrorists stormed Paris' Bataclan theater armed with Kalashnikovs the concert hall and killed more than 80 people. That all changed Friday, when the good-time band founded in 1998 by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jesse Hughes became a footnote to history. It's unlikely that many people outside of the hard rock scene had ever heard of the Eagles of Death Metal until this week. (For the uninitiated, the band's name is a bit of a misnomer.)
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