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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Music / Crime Oregon Drummer Deen Castronovo Sentenced for Assault

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:05 PM

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  • photo via FOX 12
Drummer Deen Castronovo of Keizer, Oregon—who's the current drummer for Journey, and has also played with Ozzy Osborne, Steve Vai, Social Distortion, Paul Rodgers, and many others—was sentenced following a charge for assault in January, Fox 12 reports:
The drummer for Journey has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service and anger-management classes in connection with an assault last month.

Deen Castronovo was arrested in Salem on Jan. 20 and charged with several crimes, including fourth-degree assault, resisting arrest, interfering with a police report and coercion.

The Statesman Journal reports that the assault involved a woman, who told police that Castronovo had accused her of cheating.

Bummer.

While it may be in questionable taste to shift gears like this, it seems like an opportunity to post, yet again, the video for Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)," which is the GREATEST VIDEO EVER and is guaranteed to cheer you up. Guaranteed. (Note: Castronovo is not in this video, which was shot well before he joined Journey.)

 

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Wow, this guy did more damage and harm than Clifton Brooks, but yet he gets a slap on the wrist. Racism!!
Posted by chicostix on February 22, 2012 at 1:12 PM · Report
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This is just further evidence that Steve "Machine Gun" Smith was and always will be Journey's best drummer.
Posted by Suburban Porn King on February 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM · Report
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For those of us who fondly remember Portland's halcyon hesher heyday of Camaros, half-shirts and un-ironic rocker mustaches, Deen's role in the seminal Portland 80s metal band "Wild Dogs" certainly deserves mention.
Posted by Baron von Turdwell on February 22, 2012 at 9:50 PM · Report
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That video was, is and always will be awful.
Posted by The Showstopper on February 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM · Report

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