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Cannons Bassist Paul Davis Forced to Leave Tour for Emergency Brain Surgery

Cannons’ founding bassist, Paul Davis, suffered an accident that caused him serious brain injury and forced him to leave tour for surgery.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Los Angeles’ Cannons have revealed that founding bassist, Paul Davis, has left the indie pop band’s current tour due to serious health reasons. Davis suffered an accident that caused cranial trauma and ultimately led to him needing emergency brain surgery.

“As some of you may have noticed at our last show in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Paul wasn’t performing with us,” the band wrote in a statement shared on social media. “At our show in Dallas the week before, he had an accident, and although we didn’t know it at the time, he was suffering from bleeding to his brain.”

“As the week went on, he understandably started feeling worse, and we all agreed it was best for him to go home and........

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