

Eventually, you climb up the painkiller ladder, because painkillers lie to you they will magnify that injury. So I started off with regular painkillers and muscle relaxers. Now, in order for me to be this Superman that the media had built me out to be, I had to quell that pain. I was happy as hell don't get me wrong, man - I was like, 'Oh, my God, yes!' At that point, I had just gotten back from the doctor - my second MRI - and I realized I had two blown-out disks. Well, I think it was about the time when the record came in at No. When you rupture a disk in your back, it begins this thing called degenerative disk disease, so that means the next one's going, and, obviously, the next one after that, and so on and so forth. I ultimately injured myself, and like putting a Band-Aid over a cancer.

I would attack - I would attack on stage, and I paid for it. And I don't suggest anyone do this, but I would climb up on top of PA systems and dive head first either into the waiting crowd or into the waiting concrete it made no difference. And I was injured I had a back injury from. Anything I set my mind to, I am an absolute extremist - I cannot say it any better. I am extremist when it comes to everything. Several portions of the question-and-answer session have been transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET and follow below.Īnselmo: "There is no reason, really, that I can point to.

On March 16, 2009, former PANTERA and current DOWN singer Philip Anselmo spoke passionately and candidly about his music career and his history with - and the dangers of - drugs, particularly heroin, during an appearance at the Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
