Shifty Shellshock Coma: Fans Offer Prayers
Shifty Shellshock, former member of the rock-pop group Crazy Town, is in a coma in a Los Angeles hospital after being admitted to the Intensive Care unit last week.
Seth Binzer, 37, known to his adoring fans as Shifty Shellshock was admitted into the intensive care unit last Thursday and is reportedly in an unresponsive state, according to the entertainment website TMZ.
There has not been an official statement from either the hospital or people close to Binzer, but unnamed sources close to the situation are stating that his condition was a result of drug use.
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The singer was scheduled to appear in court this week for a pre-trial hearing for a cocaine related arrest this past February.
Binzer was also arrested last March after police were called out over a domestic violence dispute. Once police arrived the officers realized that Binzer had outstanding warrants for his arrest stemming from a previous and unrelated incident.
The singer rose to fame after the group he co-founded with friend Bret Mazur in 1999, Crazy Town, shot to the top of the music charts.
Their hit single "Butterfly" off their debut album The Gift of Game would reach the number one spot on the Billboard's Hot 100 chart and their album would sell over 1 million copies.
Unfortunately for the group that would bring them to the pinnacle of their music career as their sophomore album, Darkhorse which was released in 2002, failed among fans.
He did appear on DJ Paul's Oakenfold's 2002 hit song "Starry Eyes Surprise" which helped bring that song to the top of the charts and temporarily reinvigorate Binzer's music career.
Binzer gave music one more chance as he released his solo album Happy Love Sick in 2004 but again that album never took off.
Crazy Town briefly reunited in 2007, but never finished a promised third album and soon thereafter disbanded.
