Jeff Hanneman Died :(

[egg yolkeo]

Sick-makingly sad.

So, he was still recovering from complications from the spider bite, right? Was his death connected at all to those complications? I just know that everyone is just going to say that he was just partying too hard.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... neman-dies

...", Hanneman, 49, contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a rare skin tissue disease, two years ago, most likely from a spider bite. It's not clear if the flesh-eating disease played a role in his death. "

Possibly weak liver/immune system then a necrotizing recluse spider bite in an unclean hot tub where he was bitten likely gave him the fasciitis disease.Especially if he didnt get it treated quickly enough.
I think he was over the bite but who knows.

[egg yolkeo]

I had no idea about Jeffs necrotizing disease until recently, the pictures of his arm are gnarly.Its the same flesh eating bacteria the Georgia girl got from the swing rope at the lake except they had to amputate her limbs to save her life.

[Ryan]

Slayer just announced that Jeff died of alcohol-related cirrhosis.

heavy metal lifestyle

[badcarburetor]

Slayer just announced that Jeff died of alcohol-related cirrhosis.

heavy metal lifestyle

Yeah, it can cost ya. Dude was clearly showing the signs of alcohol bloat for a few years. Too bad he didn't reel it in in time.

RIP

[Strange]

I had no idea about Jeffs necrotizing disease until recently, the pictures of his arm are gnarly.Its the same flesh eating bacteria the Georgia girl got from the swing rope at the lake except they had to amputate her limbs to save her life.

His arm was seriously gnarly looking. The scar patterns made it look pretty much like flesh-colored muscle tissue. It kinda looked like Eddie.

Not surprised to hear it was the alcohol that did it though. It's really unfortunate. Drinking on the road is bad enough, but when you have the one thing you do, not just your job, but your passion, yanked out from under you, if you don't take drastic steps to avoid it it is an easy pit to fall into.

[Moloc]

coulda gotten in his blood, but the dude was a drunk. imagine a break from the rd resulted in more boozin. liver was prob on the ropes as it was.

I hate it when you're right. Fuck.

I wish it had been the spider bite and not the booze.

[stewvee]

I hate it when you're right. Fuck.

welcome to the club

[Brian]

coulda gotten in his blood, but the dude was a drunk. imagine a break from the rd resulted in more boozin. liver was prob on the ropes as it was.

I hate it when you're right. Fuck.

I wish it had been the spider bite and not the booze.

I suppose it's possible, likely even, that the spider bite weakened his already weak liver and the booze just kept coming. But, shit, damn.

[stewvee]

"spider bite"

[Moloc]

Maybe he was drinking too much of this:

[Strange]

coulda gotten in his blood, but the dude was a drunk. imagine a break from the rd resulted in more boozin. liver was prob on the ropes as it was.

I hate it when you're right. Fuck.

I wish it had been the spider bite and not the booze.

I suppose it's possible, likely even, that the spider bite weakened his already weak liver and the booze just kept coming. But, shit, damn.

Well, you could also argue that the spider bite kept him from doing what he loved and left him with a lot more time to sit around at home with nothing to do. Boredom, depression and alcoholism is a fucking grim combination.

[Moloc]

http://www.thatsnotmetal.com/2013/05/je ... er-is.html

[Knucklehead]

Maybe it is nothing, but I find it a little curious that the skin grafts centered on the crook of his elbow. You know, the place in popular imagination where people shoot drugs. In fact, that was the first thing I thought when I saw the pictures of the his arm.

On the other hand, the official word is alcohol-related liver failure. So maybe I'm just a grassy knoll kind of guy.

[Moloc]

From Slayer's I_LOVE_ZUCKERPENIS:

DETAILS FOR JEFF HANNEMAN MEMORIAL CELEBRATION ANNOUNCED:

The Jeff Hanneman Memorial Celebration will take place on Thursday, May 23 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles from 3:30 - 7:30PM. Hanneman passed away on May 2 at the age of 49.

The Memorial Celebration will be free and open to the public on a first-come, first-in basis (subject to venue capacity). All ages are welcome, and paid parking will be available around the venue.

Jeff Hanneman helped shape Slayer's uncompromising thrash-metal sound as well as an entire genre of music. His riffs of fury and punk-rock attitude were heard in the songs he wrote, including Slayer classics "Angel of Death," "Raining Blood," "South of Heaven" and "War Ensemble." Hanneman co-founded Slayer with fellow-guitarist Kerry King, bassist Tom Araya and drummer Dave Lombardo in Huntington Park, CA in 1981. For more than 30 years, Hanneman was the band member who stayed out of the spotlight, rarely did interviews, amassed an impressive collection of World War II memorabilia, was with his wife Kathy for nearly three decades, shut off his phone and went incommunicado when he was home from tour, did not want to be on the road too late into any December as Christmas was his favorite holiday, and, from the time he was about 12 years old, woke up every, single day with one thing on his mind: playing the guitar.

It was once suggested to Slayer that if they would write "just one mainstream song that could get on the radio," they would likely sell millions of records and change the commercial course of their career, similar to what had happened to Metallica with 1993's "Enter Sandman." Jeff was the first to draw a line of integrity in the sand, replying, "We're going to make a Slayer record. If you can get it on the radio, fine, if not, then fuck it."

^^^I love how they appropriately imply that Metallica crossed that line in the sand.