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SLAYER's KERRY KING Says JEFF HANNEMAN Is 'Trying His Ass Off' To Return To The Road

April 22, 2011

Steve Appleford of LA Weekly recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

LA Weekly: What do you think of the changes the bands have gone through over the last 30 years?

King: We were lucky because we didn't have to change at all. In the other bands, they just became different entities. We all started out as this crazy metal beast, and from that birth we all grew four heads that are very different.

LA Weekly: What is the latest news with [guitarist] Jeff Hanneman [who is recovering from an infection thought to have been caused by a spider bite]?

King: He's trying his ass off. He's been talking about playing [the "Big Four"] show [on April 23 in Indio, California], but I just don't see how physically he'd be able to do that. I'm just being realistic. He came to the last rehearsal and surprised everybody. I was blown away that he was even out of the house. That was after his first or second skin graft to fix the huge opening he had. He was totally out of gas because he hadn't left the house much. He was cold because his immune system was all fucked up. We haven't talked since then. I get updates through management. He's doing whatever the doctors tell him to do.

LA Weekly: Outside the Long Beach last time, there were a couple Christian protesters. Do you still get a lot of that?

King: I think it was bigger before. Now I think people are more tolerant of different people's views and opinions. The funny thing about protesters is, you never see atheists or Satanists protest anything. They're comfortable in their beliefs. It's only Christians that are so uncomfortable with how they feel, they're not happy unless everyone believes what they believe.

Read the entire interview from LA Weekly.

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