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RIP.

As a drummer, this guts me. He was a phenomenal drummer and contributed so much! Gone way too soon.

The medical examiner in Bogota is reporting this morning that first results found a list of ten different substances from THC to anti-depressants to Opioids in his system. That shit creeps up on you and especially in combinations. By the time you are 50 you ain't 30 anymore. Just a damn shame.

First Kurt Cobain, now this guy. Dave Grohl can’t catch a break.

Duncan Edwards wrote:The medical examiner in Bogota is reporting this morning that first results found a list of ten different substances from THC to anti-depressants to Opioids in his system. That shit creeps up on you and especially in combinations. By the time you are 50 you ain't 30 anymore. Just a damn shame.

I’ve since walked away from “the scene” in favor for playing locally for other bands as a session drummer and doing the occasional reunion gig but when I was on tour, that shit was in your face at every turn. Luckily, I never danced with that devil and stepped away long before I could.

Typical scenario goes like this:

“Take this to help keep your energy levels up for the next show”
“Take that to help bring you down so you can get some sleep in the van, bus or only God knows where tonight on the way to the next town”
“Take these for your lower back pain and tendinitis because your ass is hunched in a freaking stool for 2-3 hours a night”

By the time you blink, you are literally dosing 5-6 different drugs at the same time just to function because the road is just that brutal and we are not even at the recreational variety yet or alcohol. It really is no wonder why a lot of musician’s lives are cut short because of chemical dependency or abuse.

It’s a tragic loss that didn’t need to happen.

OBI-wan wrote:First Kurt Cobain, now this guy. Dave Grohl can’t catch a break.

He has seen way more loses in his career than that. Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Scott Weiland, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag just to name a few. This just hits closer to home. As I said, this crap is so easy to access once you are at that tier of musicianship, it’s not even funny. It’s scary how fast a doc will cut you a script so you can do what you do at that level. It’s even scarier how accessible the harder stuff is even when you’re not.

The mortality rate in Rock and Roll is frighteningly high...whether elicit substances or not, there is an entire parade of those cut down by chemical dependency....Brain Jones, Jimi, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Bon Scott, James Honeyman-Scott, Phil Lynott, and on and on and on...

EVysther wrote:The mortality rate in Rock and Roll is frighteningly high...whether elicit substances or not, there is an entire parade of those cut down by chemical dependency....Brain Jones, Jimi, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Bon Scott, James Honeyman-Scott, Phil Lynott, and on and on and on...

Bruh! Keith Moon was my hero! Such a phenomenal and passionate player. Chaotic yet poetic. There just wasn’t too many drummers in that genre in that era who could tell a story behind the kit like that guy. Only two others I could put beyond him during that time period was Bonham and Watts.

Back on topic, it’s a tragic but true fact and the curse isn’t just confined to the rock genre. Heroin plagued much of the jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro.

Nobody lives forever. But the music of some will.

BogDog wrote:Nobody lives forever. But the music of some will.

Alas, truer words have never been spoken