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| So I went digging through the stacks and stacks of CDs
in front of the stereo looking for the live Death CD that Nuclear
Blast released last summer. It was a benefit for Schuldiner, who was
pretty visibly not going to be coming back to reclaim his death metal
crown. His medical expenses had gone clean through the ceiling, and
there were more treatments that he needed; of course there aren’t
really any health care plans for death metal musicians, so all the
money for those treatments had to come out-of-pocket. You or I might
conceivably scrap together enough to pay for the setting of a broken
bone, but treating cancer is of an entirely different order, and Schuldiner
had sold or auctioned off everything he owned, including his guitars.
His family was doing everything they could, as were his labels past
and present. There were online charities, which I presume will still
be active, since the bills won’t go away all by themselves --
one’s here.
Do what you can. But if you do nothing else, pick up Death’s
Live in L.A. (Death & Raw), one of the most awfully-titled
live albums of all time, just to see what you were missing. |
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