{"id":807582,"date":"2020-05-18T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002041"},"modified":"2020-05-18T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T02:22:59","slug":"fundraiser-launched-to-help-beloved-ailing-dj-matt-pinfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/fundraiser-launched-to-help-beloved-ailing-dj-matt-pinfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser Launched to Help Beloved, Ailing DJ Matt Pinfield"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recently launched GoFundMe<\/a> aims to support former MTV<\/a> VJ Matt Pinfield as he enters a recovery center to improve his \u201cphysical and mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

The beloved TV and radio personality, perhaps best known for his mid-Nineties stint hosting MTV\u2019s alternative music program 120 Minutes<\/em>, was hospitalized<\/a> in 2018 after being struck by a car and suffering injuries to his head and leg. Chris Trovero, Pinfield\u2019s friend and a collaborator on his interview show In a Lonely Place<\/em>, helped organize the fundraiser to offset the cost of his treatment.<\/p>\n

Several of Pinfield\u2019s famous friends, including Jane\u2019s Addiction singer Perry Farrell and Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik, have already contributed to the campaign. Eight days after its May 10th launch, the GoFundMe has raised over $40,000 of its $50,000 goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you know, it\u2019s been a crazy year and a half in my life and now it\u2019s a crazy time in everyone\u2019s lives,\u201d Pinfield tells Rolling Stone<\/em> in a statement. \u201cEven with the strain of COVID put on everyone\u2019s livelihoods, I\u2019m beyond overjoyed with the amount of support that is coming in from everyone for my physical and mental health recovery. Thank you for all of your continued support and please keep the music in your heart!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trovero adds, \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see friends and fans of Matt\u2019s from his days at the Melody Bar in New Jersey, to his time on the air as a radio DJ, to his time on 120 Minutes as an MTV VJ, and throughout the rest of his career coming together to support him. The love is what is keeping Matt strong as he focuses on getting better. As Bruce Springsteen sang on his album Wrecking Ball<\/em> \u2014 \u201cWe Take Care of Our Own\u201d \u2014 so I want to thank everyone for helping take care of one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pinfield has also shared his appreciation in a pair<\/a> of Instagram<\/a> posts, detailing on Wednesday the \u201cmental anguish of nearly losing a leg.\u201d He added, \u201cI was reluctant and wanted to keep it a secret because of my foolish pride. You can\u2019t save your ass and your face at the same time as we are human, and everything can change in a second.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWords could not express my love and gratitude,\u201d he said, reacting to the campaign. \u201cYou know I\u2019ll fight all the back thanks to each and everyone of you. You give me the feeling of a favorite new song.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A recently launched GoFundMe aims to support former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield as he enters a recovery center to improve his \u201cphysical and mental health.\u201d The beloved TV and radio personality, perhaps best known for his mid-Nineties stint hosting MTV\u2019s alternative music program 120 Minutes, was hospitalized in 2018 after being struck by a car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 18:11:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}