slayer guitarist dies

[Green Manalishi]

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.

[binnie]

What a riff!

[FORD]

Hmmm...

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

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.

[Nitro Express]

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.

[Nitro Express]

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.

[FORD]

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.

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.

[Matt White]

RIP Jeff

"Liver failure" at 49?!? Sounds like decades of alcohol abuse to me............sad non the less

[sadaist]

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.

[ELVIS]

Seems like a funny normal guy...

[Seshmeister]

[binnie]

I really, really hope they don't picket his funeral.

Scum.

[jhale667]

I really, really hope they don't picket his funeral.

Scum.

You KNOW they're going to..

[sadaist]

Seems like a funny normal guy...

Totally. This is really the first time I have seen any type of interview with him. He always looked scary & tough in photos but that was just part of the Slayer act. Seems like a nice guy and what a crummy way to go. I do know he wrote some of the most awesome heavy riffs of all time. I never really liked Slayer solos but the rhythm was unreal.

[Green Manalishi]

Let the Slaying begin . Those fuckers are not true Christians by any definition . They are a twisted hate group sadly cloaking themselves in Christianity . I knew something was really wrong with these cretins when they started picketing military funerals .

[PETE'S BROTHER]

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