When your motto used to be, “It’s a satanic drug thing, you wouldn’t understand” and you have a history of releasing discs with names like Tab… 25 and Dopes to Infinity, people aren’t gonna be too surprised to find out you’ve got a drug problem. But Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf seemingly kicked his addiction to heavy drugs. It was the prescription stuff that nearly did him in.
In a recent interview with UK journalist Dave Ling that which was posted on Blabbermouth.net, Wyndorf had a lot to say about the night in February 2006 when he hit the pill bottle hard and almost didn’t wake up.
“It had been a long time coming,” he told Ling. “Everything began when I couldn’t sleep on tour, so the doctors gave me something that would put down a wild animal. This was an anti-anxiety drug; the stuff that airline pilots and astronauts use. I was doing a lot of transatlantic flying, and on a plane one day I just started gobbling them down. All of my paranoias came at me like a giant, three-headed beast. My biggest mistake was not asking for help. The things are supposed to clear you mind before you go to sleep. They wipe out all the worries and concerns you might have, but what I didn’t understand is that it’s like a computer.”
“The problems are not deleted [when you reboot]. In fact they get magnified by ten. It was f—ing horrible. I was utterly powerless, on a slipperly slope. I don’t recall doing it but on the day concerned I took the whole goddamn bottle — a hundred pills, man, just like they were a shot glass — and the next thing I knew, I woke up in a f—ing loony bin. [Drugs are] supposedly a gateway into creativity. You know what? It’s all a myth. They suck, and they’ll get you in the end. They certainly got me.”
Monster Magnet’s new album, 4 Way Diablo is tentatively due for release on November 2. Now here’s the video for “Unbroken (Hotel Baby)”:
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