Ex Pantera manager Walter O Brien interview in newest GW Mag
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:16 pm
When asked about Phil Anselmo's overdose in Dallas '96:
"We were all sitting backstage in the Pantera dressing room, partying, having a great time. It was a killer show, a big, big venue in Dallas. It was a homecoming. Everybody was there-family, friends. And all of a sudden somebody came in, screaming "Phil's dying!, Phil's dying!" We all jumped up and ran down to the room where Phil was, and he was laying out on a couch or a table or something, so dark blue you couldn't even see his tattoos. And he'd stopped breathing.
So an ambulance came and they ran him off to the hospital. The Pantera guys said to me, "You gotta go to the hospital." And I said, " I ain't going to the hospital. I am not chasing junkies all over town. I'm sorry. And if that means you're firing me, fine. I'm probably quitting anyway." And I remember as soon as I walked away, I saw all his New Orleans jackass friends, from Eyehategod and a couple other bands, who are all junkies and morons and losers. And one of them, a guy who was in Down (drummer Jimmy Bower), came up to me and said "Cha-ching! What's the matter? Your big payday get taken away from you? I said, "What the fuck are you talking about?" And he said, "Well, you're the one that let this happen." And I said to him, "You're the jackasses that do this shit around him and tell him it's ok. And as far as a paycheck, I just quit."
A few interesting interviews in this issue, along with sweat pea O'Brien, they also talk to Jerry Abbott and manager Kimberly Zide-Davis.
"We were all sitting backstage in the Pantera dressing room, partying, having a great time. It was a killer show, a big, big venue in Dallas. It was a homecoming. Everybody was there-family, friends. And all of a sudden somebody came in, screaming "Phil's dying!, Phil's dying!" We all jumped up and ran down to the room where Phil was, and he was laying out on a couch or a table or something, so dark blue you couldn't even see his tattoos. And he'd stopped breathing.
So an ambulance came and they ran him off to the hospital. The Pantera guys said to me, "You gotta go to the hospital." And I said, " I ain't going to the hospital. I am not chasing junkies all over town. I'm sorry. And if that means you're firing me, fine. I'm probably quitting anyway." And I remember as soon as I walked away, I saw all his New Orleans jackass friends, from Eyehategod and a couple other bands, who are all junkies and morons and losers. And one of them, a guy who was in Down (drummer Jimmy Bower), came up to me and said "Cha-ching! What's the matter? Your big payday get taken away from you? I said, "What the fuck are you talking about?" And he said, "Well, you're the one that let this happen." And I said to him, "You're the jackasses that do this shit around him and tell him it's ok. And as far as a paycheck, I just quit."
A few interesting interviews in this issue, along with sweat pea O'Brien, they also talk to Jerry Abbott and manager Kimberly Zide-Davis.
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