Former SKID ROW / SAIGON KICK Drummer PHIL VARONE - Waking Up Dead DVD To Be Officially Released In March 2007, New Clips From Film Online
December 17, 2006, 17 years ago
As previously reported, former SAIGON KICK / SKID ROW drummer Phil Varone filmed a documentary with director Fabio Jafet focusing on his battle with drugs and his subesequent fall from grace. Varone has confirmed that the DVD will be issued in March 2007 and has uploaded two clips from the film. Go to this location to check them out.
The following is an excerpt from BW&BK;'s interview with Varone, conducted last year:
"It was horrifying, it was embarrassing, and initially it was very emotional," Varone says of seeing footage of himself as a high flying drug addict. "Men don't like admitting to things like this, but I spent time in a corner weeping when I realized this was my life. Looking in that mirror was really, really hard, and even to this day, when the movie goes into the drug section I leave the room. It's hard for me to watch that guy, and I refer to him as 'That Guy' because the guy on screen is not me.""I'm not proud of what I did," he adds, "but I've moved forward, and I'm surrounded by some good, close friends. Matt Kramer (former Saigon Kick vocalist), for instance, was there for me in the bad times and he's there for me now in the great times. I can tell you now, if somebody came up to me with some coke Matt would beat the shit out of them. I have that kind of support from my family as well. I've spent a lot of time repairing friendships and relationships because of this experience, so it was an eye-opening experience editing the movie. It also gave me something to think about if I ever get urges to do drugs. And I do get them. I'll get them for the rest of my life. Now, though, I think about the bad part of doing drugs whereas before I would think about the good parts. And there's nothing good about drugs."
To read the entire interview go to this location.
