OT: RIP Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died today at 49 completing the celebrity death trifecta along with George Jones and Chris Kelly.
As the young whippersnappers reminisced about Kris Kross this morning, us old fogies can now fondly recall Slayer. "SLLLLLLAAAAAYYYYYYEEEERRRRR!!!!!!"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/02/180671470/slayer-guitarist-jeff-hanneman-dies
Freaking sad man. Jeff Hanneman, and Kerry King are a couple of my all time favorites. Fortunately, for me I grew up on both Kris Kross and Slayer. My favorite Slayer song was Angel of Death, and now Mr. Hanneman will be one. RIP.
Hell of a combo to grow up on, lol.
The beginning of that song will never get old, ever.
Slayer --> All Songs --> Shuffle
He will be missed. Reign in blood was amazing... but divine intervention was my favorite slayer album. There is nothing quite like seeing slayer live. Other shows might have been better, but sayer always brought it. Seeing slayer and pantera co bill in the early 2000s was ridiculous. Well, I guess I know what I'll be listening to for a while.
Diabolus en musica...
Slayer laid the foundation for many of my favorite bands. Glad I was able to see them live a few years ago with Mastodon and Lamb of God. Huge loss for the metal community. RIP Jeff...
Wow that would have been a fun show. I'm a big Mastodon fan. Idk how anyone would get out of there alive so props to your survival man.
No doubt, though my heyday was Ozzfest is the late 90's and early 00's. Disturbed, Slipknot, Pantera, Mudvayne, System all ring a bell. I left bloody, bruised, filthy and very happy everytime.
Long live hard rock and heavy metal!!
RIP Dude
One of the reasons why I started playing guitar. RIP Jeff
"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 in his death." Wha? Flesh eating disease brought on by spider bite? that's hard core!
All right. These RIPs are getting a little ridiculous. This isn't related to sports, pop culture, news, and I'm fairly sure 97.3% of this board would have no idea who that is without an explanation.
Seriously?
The amount of posts suggest otherwise.
The title says RIP Slayer Guitarist, why did you even click on the thread?
I feel bad for you. You never to got to experience heavy metal growing up. That's sad, but with posts like this I guess you deserve it.
Reign in Blood, man.
:(
Seen them probably 15 times. One of the all-time greats. This sucks.
Those looking to mourn the loss should look to The Black Dahlia Murder. They are my favorite metal band and they are Detroit.
This sucks big time. I remember reading that he had a close call with the flesh eating bacteria thing, but didn't know he was still having problems.
I'll make sure the neighbors wake up to Slayer.
edit: Hanneman wrote a lot of the music for Slayer's songs.... will they be the same? Allow me to say again:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Yeah, this was shocking when I first read this. I've seen Slayer live about 8 times, but the show that stood out to me was at Van Andel when they toured with Pantera and Static-X some years ago. Pantera is one of my favorites also, but Slayer blew them off the stage that night.
With Kerry King being a world known poisionous snake breeder, I always thought that he would end up getting bit by something harmful. I have seen SLAYER in excess of 30 times since 1989. A horrible loss to the entire musical community. R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman.
Gary Holt will now join as a full time member. Also sad because that means no new Exodus albums either.
Slayer is one of THE most iconic bands in heavy music history. They have been around since the early 1980's when the members were just teenagers. Pretty crazy thing. At least he got to spend his life doing something he loved.
Also, I will kill, smash and destroy every spider I see from now on.
I saw Slayer last summer with Zombie and they were just so tight. I've seen slayer probably 8 or 9 times since the mid nineties and last summer was by far their best show I've seen...
Reign in Blood!!!
Or Pantera live. I had a ticket to see Damageplan in Columbus the night Dime got shot. I didn't go because my buddy had to back out. Just one more reason to hate Columbus.
Listened to three Slayer albums last night when I heard the news. All those years and never had a Metallica moment!
Diabolus in Musica was the closest they got to the "Metallica Moment" in my opinion. Even Kerry King admits that was a mistake.
Listened to three Slayer albums last night. A lot of years and albums, and all without that Metallica sell out moment.
much like whne Dimebag died, that thing that sucks is to know, there will never be another tour...
Dave Lambardo from slayer was my all time fav metal drummer before vinnie paul..
at least we have the music, pantera and slayer will always live, espically in the ones of us that raged against our parents, our teachers, our coaches, and espically opposing players while angel of death and walk played in our heads...
you never really have experienced a live show if you had never seen the heavy metal gods live..
megadeth, slayer, pantera, etc... the fans of those bands would go and see them every time they came around, regadless if they were promoting a new album or not... the other things about those metal bands, they took their perfomances seriously, and made sure to bring it every time they steped on stage...
RIp metal gods, and thanks for leaving a legacy and all the great music for us to enjoy for ever
John Clayton must be bummed.
Very sad news. This is one of the bands I grew up with. My first exposure to Slayer was on MTV back when they played music. They were doing a special about this new underground scene called heavy metal/thrash. MTV 's attitude was that they couldn't believe hard rock was making a comeback.
In a scene the members of Slayer talked about their music and fans. I think it was Mr Hanneman who said, "Our music isn't for just anyone. You gotta have problems to relate to it" Of course MTV ran with that quote.
Their music has stood up well in the test of time nearly 30 years later. Decade of Agression is still my go to album in the weightroom.
What is your go to album in the community? Mine is Vulgar Display of Power.
Vulgar Display of Power is untouchable.
I will say that Clutch's self titled album would be my #2
jdon
Those 2 albums have been in my car since I had a cd player.
Vulgar and Godsmack. strangely they are both cathartic to me.
One of my fav South Park Episodes.
Slayer and Eric Cartman save South Park!
(Sorry....the clip is not on You Tube so no embedding)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103818/buzz-killer