SLAYER Guitarist Kerry King - " If Anybody Is Gonna Say Anything About What We Put Out, I Want Them To Say 'Wow, That’s Jeff’s Last Song. That’s Awesome.'"
November 24, 2013, 10 years ago
SLAYER guitarist Kerry King is featured in a new interview with Las Vegas Weekly. An excerpt is available below:
Q: What’s the strategy moving ahead without guitarist Jeff Hanneman? (Hanneman died May 13th of liver failure.)
King: "Well, there’s still stuff we gotta work out about that, because moving forward there’s gonna be records, there’s gonna be merch, there’s gonna be live shows and we gotta figure out essentially what everybody thinks is fair moving forward."
Q: It’s been said that you’ve been looking through Jeff’s recordings. Have you found anything that you’re going to use?
King: "Most of the stuff we already picked through in the ’80s. We did have a song left over from the last record that needs some reworking, but it wasn’t a complete song. It wasn’t on the record for a reason. It wasn’t the quality of the rest of World Painted Blood. It’s good stuff; it just wasn’t finished. So I’m gonna work on that when time permits. Other than that, everything that was given to us, we pretty much cherry-picked. We go back there and pick through again, I’m not sure that does anybody any good other than the fact that yeah, we used Jeff Hanneman’s stuff. I don’t want people to hear something and say, 'Maybe they shouldn’t have put that out.' If anybody is gonna say anything about what we put out I want them to say, 'Wow. That’s Jeff’s last song. That’s awesome.'"
Go to this location for the complete interview.
Slayer's current Old School tour dates with GOJIRA and 4ARM are as follows:
November
26 - Oakdale Theatre - Wallingford, CT27 - Theatre at MSG - New York, NY
29 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ
30 - Tsongas Arena - Boston, MA
