Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera by Rex Brown

Author:Rex Brown [Brown, Rex]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780306821370
Amazon: 0306821370
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2013-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

After the show they asked me onto the bus to travel with them to Reno, Nevada, and that was when I met Phil for the first time. He came up to me with a big smile and whispered in my ear, “I totally know why you bailed on these guys.” That surprised me, but at the same time I felt that he and I were the only two guys in the club. We knew what being in Pantera was all about, but he felt confident talking to me because he knew he was in control. He had found his place.

There’s no suggestion that his retreat was anything other than a reaction to fame or a simple need for privacy at this point but, looking back now, I suspect that this may have been the beginning of Phil’s drug problems. We all knew he was having a lot of back pain, but even though we continually told him to go and get it checked out by a specialist, it was a long time before he actually did.

I finally said to him, “I’m tired of hearing about your back shit, dude, why don’t you go to a doctor? We’ve got one right here in town, so why not go and get an MRI and see what’s going on with it?” But for a long time he didn’t do anything. “If you had a fucking cold every day for six months, wouldn’t you think something was wrong?” I asked him.

When he eventually sought medical advice he was told that the recovery period for back surgery could be more than a year—time off that he couldn’t tolerate—so he continued down the path of alcohol and other forms of pain relief to get him through the shows on the last leg of the U.S tour, which we did with Prong as our support.

But all that time Phil was always saying, “Oh, my back this, my back that.” Because of the rampant painkiller culture he came from, down in New Orleans, he used to take Somas—muscle relaxers—to relieve the pain. But we all know that people gravitate toward a heavier drug if they can’t get high off whatever they’re using at the time, and in his case ten of these Soma fuckers just wasn’t doing it for him.

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