Jeff Hanneman

Yeah.

Right when we got off stage, I got online and Slayer had announced that Jeff Hanneman died and it just popped up.

And I was like, wow.

So I kind of always remember that show because of the, the, you know, the quality over quantity, because the crowd was great, you know, it was small and everyone got something from this.

Next one gets my nips hard, dude.

What is it? It's Hanuman.

I mean, it's so good.

It's about a psychotic Russian.

I love old interviews, old Brock footage, old, you know, and we were down a deep dive of watching old Slayer interviews.

And it was sick back in the day when Jeff Hanneman was the only dude that talked.

I mean, he was unhinged, awesome, crazy.

Wow.

It's very intricate, integral, specialized kind of music, so to speak, and in a lot of ways it's even more difficult to play than punk rock because it's so technical and so it really helped me develop as a guitarist learning how to play that kind of music which helps me today because it broadened my horizons and my vision of the instrument itself by learning a totally different style of music and playing you know i kind of think of speed metal sort of like Some of it like punk rock, it's just double bass with lead guitar.

And on that note, the best or the highest compliment I ever got came from Jeff Hanneman from Slayer when I met him at the Rain and Blood tour.

He told me that Reagan Zinn was a huge influence on him and a great influence on Slayer, bringing the punk side into Slayer.

And if you look at his Wikipedia site, Jeff Hanneman, it has Wasted Youth, LA's Wasted Youth listed as an inspiration for punk.

And then I had the great fortune to talk to Catherine Hanneman about, who was Jeff's wife for like four and a half hours on the phone.

And she said, not only was Jeff a huge fan of LA's Wasted Youth, but I was too.

They were amazing.

I know they did a great version of the TSOL song.

That's how you see it on later records.

Hanneman and King, who had been such cohesive collaborators on Rain and Blood, do not co-write any lyrics on Seasons.

In retrospect, it is odd that, quote-unquote, the Drunk Brothers didn't work together more.

But at this point, the band's collective work did not suffer for it.

Much less.

The words to Temptation, lyrics by King, and later Hallowed Point, lyrics by Araya and Hanneman, are unprecedented clunkers, if you like those songs you're allowed to, but it's not their best work.

But in the company of A-list songs like War Ensemble and Seasons in the Abyss, they didn't seem like anything to worry about, a couple songs that were a little bit off.

Here are the credits for the record.

That's cool.

Do we think that Tom Araya and Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King from Slayer really understand or have any nuanced understanding of history or politics? No.

But they sing about war.

They write a song called War Ensemble and they sing about war.

know

like that's the real horror is like I couldn't help him we had this other gentleman and he got necrotizing fasciitis which is the same thing that happened to Jeff Hanneman um And like the doctors, you know, had done everything and like his limbs were just turning like completely black, like tree bark.

And eventually he had to go to a different hospital to have his both arms and legs, you know, amputated.

And, you know, we had got to know him for months, you know, looking after him.

But I love the riffs in Captor of Sin and Haunting the Chapel.

And like a lot of Slayer, especially with the original lineup, all the songs were written by Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman.

You know, Chemical Warfare was in one of the Guitar Hero games, Warriors of Rock.

It fits.

Well, uh, let's see.

Slayer is, uh- Tom Araya on bass and l- vocals, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman on guitar, and Dave Lombardo on drums.

[smacks lips] Um, this is the third studio album released through Def Jam, and the first Slayer record produced by Rick Rubin.

[smacks lips] Uh-