I know we've seen him as the lead guitarist at MusiCares, but we've still had no "Official" confirmation stating if it's a permanent fixture or not. Fans have been speculating over the actual status of his place in the band and if he's recording with them for the new album or not.

Today Blackie confirmed that he's in the band for the forseeable future and also recording with them for the new album.

Many Thanks to the OneHotGlobe moderator "Jason1978", who emailed me the following earlier today...

Looks like all the rumors can be officially put to rest. I decided to send Blackie a message on MySpace asking about the Josh confusion and he responded by saying he's in the band and they are working on the next album. I think we all knew Josh was in the band but this pretty much confirms it for me.

Here is the message I was sent.

To: Jason

he's in the band
they're working on the next album.

blackie dammett
1/31/2010 1:47 PM



Ovo je kopiran post sa stadium-arcadiuma

hehe da da procitala sam ovo
ma to smo vec ocekivali, tako da nista novo

Mene vise raduje drugi red koj sam ofarbao

da da !!! takodje

nadam se da su vredni, jer ja ne mogu da docekam novi album....