Casket Salesmen

Part of: Music
Location: Chino Hills, CA
About me: After a night out with a friend, Phil Pirrone drove home in his car but never made it there. “I woke up in the hospital four days later,” he remembers. “I had been in a coma. I jumped up in the bed, ripped the tube out of my throat and started yelling.” Pirrone had run his car off the road, flipping it over in the air. He was ejected from the vehicle and had landed on a golf course. Pirrone was airlifted to the hospital, where the trauma surgeons sliced him open, stopping the internal bleeding just in time, removing his spleen and portions of his liver. He had also suffered a broken back, broken ribs and two collapsed lungs. Using his idols — Les Claypool, Mike Patton, Robert Fripp, Sting, David Crosby, Melvins and Thom Yorke — as inspiration to start a label and get back into creating music, Pirrone (along with Nste Lindeman) exited A Static Lullaby to begin a new chapter in his life. With Lindeman at his side, Casket Salesmen was now fully placed into position. Pirrone has finally found a proper forum in which to put his ideas and feelings into action.