In a recent Interview Zakk Wylde talked about his former bandmate Nick Catanese – who played guitar in Black Label Society between 1999 and 2013 – pleading guilty to sending sexually explicit messages to a 14-year-old female, telling MetalSucks (transcribed by UG):
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“When Nick left I hadn’t spoken to him once. You always wish him the best – it’s a fraternity and a brotherhood, you want everybody to be happy…
“Now people are like, ‘Zakk, what do you have to say?’ I was shocked as everybody else is. I would have never seen this coming in at all. So when we found out we were like, ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me, man.’ I’m pretty much just like everybody else that saw the news.
“One of my buddies was just asking, ‘The whole 17 years, did you ever see anything like that?’ No. He was always sweet with everybody and he was always a good dude. So I’m just baffled.”