Papa Roach show Friday at The Wedge


The members of Papa Roach aren’t easily spooked.

However, this was exactly the case when the quartet — Jacoby Shaddix (vocals), Jerry Horton (guitar), Tobin Esperance (bass) and Dave Buckner (drums) — recorded its latest effort “The Paramour Sessions” at the supposedly haunted Paramour Mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

“We were working on this song ‘Crash’ and there was a part we’d get to where Jacoby sings the lyric ‘I’m going to crash,’” said Horton, calling from Nashville. “Every time we would get to that part, the computer would crash and the power would go out in the whole house. When that happened once, we were like, ‘OK.’ It was a little weird, but we flipped the breakers and started up again. It ended up happening three more times after that.

“It wasn’t like a spooky kind of vibe. It wasn’t scary ... just kind of, you could tell there was an energy and something else other than ourselves there.”

Papa Roach and Blackstone Cherry perform Friday at The Wedge.

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