Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
That's fucked up...
Oh.... so that's what all that noise was coming from the waiting room.
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Originally Posted by Sockfucker
Slayer guitarist and founding member Jeff Hanneman died earlier today of liver failure. He was 49.
"Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home," the band's longtime publicist said in a statement. "Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure."
Hanneman co-founded the thrash metal greats with Kerry King in 1981; their breakthrough came in 1986 with the brutalist album "Reign in Blood." Hanneman wrote or co-wrote the set's standout tracks, "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood."
have fun down there
will you send us sound clips of him and dimebag rippin' it up?Oh.... so that's what all that noise was coming from the waiting room.
Fuck! Now they will never have a good album.
Yesterday, thrash metal gods Slayer posted an open letter to fans regarding the ill health of guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who suffered a spider bite last year that eventually left him in a medically induced coma, from which he was slowly recovering. Sadly, today, Hanneman passed away at age 49 of liver failure. The band’s publicist issued the following statement:
Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home. He was 49. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Slayer are one of the most important bands in the history of metal if not American rock music, period. They were also one of the few metal bands to remain vital well into middle age. The loss of Hanneman is a significant one. Just terrible, sad news. RIP.
I can't believe it. This is so....I dunno...sad day.
R.I.P. Jeff HannemanOh.... so that's what all that noise was coming from the waiting room.
Hell Awaits
I can't believe it. This is so....I dunno...sad day.
Saw this while at work & wanted to get here as soon as I could to commiserate with my friends & fellow fans.
Rest in peace Jeff. Can't thank you enough for the songs. Most aggressive music I've ever heard & was perfect when I was in a pissed mood or wanted to kick someones ass.
One great memory I have of Jeff was back in the 80's when they opened for Judas Priest. A time when Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc fans in high school were all about looking the part. Yet I would still wear my beach clothes & surf t-shirts. Jeff was wearing a long sleeve Local Motion surf shop t-shirt on stage. HAHA! Validation!! If the heaviest MoFo of all time can wear it then so can I. I remember it to this day. Will never forget.
See you south of heaven bro! I'll bring some ice cold Heineken's for ya!!
(still my all time favorite T-shirt logo)
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
R.I.P. Jeff Henneman
I shall play slayer all night in your honor!
FUCK YEAH!R.I.P. Jeff Henneman
I shall play slayer all night in your honor!
SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was genuinely upset when I heard about this.
RIP Jeff. 49 is way too young to go.
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It's like something from House
In a fall 2011 interview with U.K.'s Classic Rock magazine, Hanneman said that was kicking back in a hot tub with a couple of beers when noticed a spider bite him on the arm.
"Didn't even feel it," he said. "But an hour later, I knew that I was ill." On his way to the hospital, "I could see the flesh corrupting," he recalled. "The arm was real hot. I got to the emergency room, and thank god the nurse knew straight away what it was. By chance, although it's pretty rare, she had seen a case a little while before. At that point, I was an hour away from death."
Although the spider bite itself was not serious, it had caused bacterial infection in the deeper layers of the skin and tissues of the arm.
"Unbelievably, the doctor was a Slayer fan," said Hanneman, "First thing he said to me was: "First I am going to save your life. Then I am going to save your arm. Then I am going to save your career.'"
Hanneman underwent emergency surgery to remove the dead and dying tissue. The doctor was able to save the muscles and the tendons, but the guitarist had a large open wound on his arm. He spent the next two months in hospital, having extensive skin grafts and heavy doses of antibiotics to suppress the infection.
"I had to learn to walk again," Hanneman said: "I hadn't stood up for a month, apart from anything else. The skin grafts were very painful and all the muscles and tendons in the arm where very weak. That was OK, though. I count myself lucky that the nurse and doctor knew right away what had happened to me, because things could have been a whole lot worse."
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Yuk...
Thanks Sesh.. Now I'm hungry..
When you read more (unlike most of the journalists today) although it's widely reported as being caused by a spider bite it probably wasn't.
The Brown Recluse doesn't live in California, hardly ever bites and if it does usually you don't get the flesh eating bug.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider
Probably he was misdiagnosed and the necrosis came from something else.
Either way he's been really really unlucky.
i guess he thought he had a chance at being spiderman
He and Slayer came with something kickass and new, pioneers unlike most bands who are more or less followers.
I listened to Seasons in the Abyss three weeks ago, for the first time in seven years, a coincidence.
R.I.P.
;(
Great record. Probably my favorite of theirs. I'm not a Slayer fan, but you HAVE to admit they were the Kings of Thrash. And I sincerely don't know if they are gonna go on without him.
What a shame. Jeff was the riff master of the group.
A total loss for Metal. He was probably drinking himself into oblivion in his down time.
That might explain King's lack of interest on discussing Jeff's return to the band , in recent interviews...
R.I.P.
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That's the understatement of a lifetime...
Hmmm...That's fucked up...
His left arm is covered and it looks like a dialysis graft or some sort of IV port in his right arm...
I'll bet there's some pain in those riffs...
RIP
This is horrific news!
How many of you people in 1986 had a copy of "Reign In Blood" and "Master of Puppets"?
It's what got me started into listening to Metal....
What a sad loss.... and over a fucking spider bite nonetheless....
Yep. The main 4 rotation for HEAVY was
Reign In Blood
Master Of Puppets
Peace Sells...
Among The Living
Wow! What a great time to be that perfect high school age and have those tapes blasting every morning before school.
Been cranking Slayer all day - the memories that go with the music is just overwhelming. And Jeff is not only an underrated songwriter/riff writer, he was the main creative force in one of the most important metal bands of all time (easily top 5, right?)
Slayer should call it a day now, I think. It would be hard to watch a wounded version continue - a bit like watching a shot former ATG fighter continue well passed his prime......
SLAYER kicked a gargantuan amount of ass . Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King were truly under-rated as a guitar duo outside of Metal . I appreciate the straight up fact that they were/are admittedly HUGE Judas Priest fans and were directly inspired by Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing . The only cover they ever recorded was the early Priest classic " Dissident Aggressor " ...and a mighty fine job they did !
I first saw SLAYER with Overkill in a small roller rink called Skate Palace in '86 or '87 on the Reign In Blood tour . It was fucking fierce !
R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman - Thanx for the sonic waves.
What a riff!
What's up with his arm there is that the spider bite left him with a bad case of flesh eating bacteria, and he apparently had to go through several surgeries as a result. He actually was in danger of losing the arm at one point.
It may have cost him more than an arm though. Toxic shock syndrome is often a by-product of flesh eating bacteria, and that in turn might have been what killed his liver.
Obviously when a rock star drops dead of liver disease, the easy guess is that it was drugs & alcohol that did it. But in this case it might well have been the end result of the spider incident.
Makes me feel a little less guilty about killing two of the little 8 legged bastards today. Fuckers are everywhere around here. Probably not the lethal kind, but when I'm finding bug bites on myself, they need to die anyway.
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I got bit by a hobo spider. I used an old family remedy on the bite and it worked. You get a good grade of cigarette tobacco. I used Camels. You get the tobacco wet and soggy and apply it to the bite area and hold it on with a Band Aid or tape. Leave it on overnight. In the morning it will look like a big zit. The tobacco pulls the venom to a head. You lance it with a needle and squeeze all the junk out until it bleeds. Let it bleed to flush it out. Then I used a product called Iodex. It's iodine suspended in a petroleum jelly base. Plain iodine may work. Leave that on for a day. Then alternate the tobacco and iodine each day. It takes awhile but the bite will heal up and mine didn't leave a scar.
Watch for the infection spreading. If it is, you better have a doctor look at it. I know someone else who got bit by a hobo spider and what the doctor used didn't work and they had to keep trying different things. She ended up paying over $1,000 to have it treated. A pack of camels is about $5 and a bottle of Iodex is $15.
This also works on bee stings and other insect bites.
Last edited by Nitro Express; 05-04-2013 at 02:04 AM.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
I was re-stacking firewood and it was full of brown recluses. If you see a brown spider with a fiddle shaped marking on it's back, it's a recluse. The bite is nasty.
I can remember sleeping at my mom's aunt's house in Arizona. She didn't have air conditioning so at night all the windows and doors were open. I'm sleeping on the living room couch and I could hear something hitting the screen door. I went to see what it was and the porch light was on and it attracted all sorts of bugs. On the porch were a bunch of tarantulas and they were jumping up to snag the bugs on the screen door and hitting it and making the noise. Man. I couldn't sleep after seeing what was out there. After that I was looking everywhere for those damn tarantulas. I didn't know those bastards could jump.
Last edited by Nitro Express; 05-04-2013 at 02:14 AM.
I have heard of this, and though I've never smoked the shit, I probably still have some tobacco around here along with some other herbals used in Native American ceremonies.
My only hesitancy about putting tobacco on an open wound would be all the toxic/radioactive shit that they spray the plants with as their growing (which are probably causing more lung cancer in the tobacco addicts than the burning leaves themselves are) Definitely would try to track down some organic tobacco if I were going to use it for that purpose.
It's probably also not a coincidence that nicotine is used as an insecticide.
Last edited by FORD; 05-04-2013 at 02:31 AM.
RIP Jeff
"Liver failure" at 49?!? Sounds like decades of alcohol abuse to me............sad non the less
This is a really neat little interview with Jeff. A few creepy parts about death & how long the band will continue. But you can tell this guy is really just a fun normal guy who would be drinking beers at the weekly kitchen table poker game with buddies. Sad.
Seems like a funny normal guy...
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