because of his sort of ascetic impulses in other domains one doesn’t imagine him as particularly hard-living, but this 2002 ilxor thread (bumped for his death) suggests that he had his first heart attack way back: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?bo...
edit: viral pericarditis, actually, before it was a hot topic
agumonkey|1 year ago
His story about the band cut on an album budget is mind blowing too.