![]() However, he was busy recording the album Mechanical Animals at the time. It was originally planned that Zum would produce their debut. Also, guitarist Zim Zum allowed the band to claim that they were "currently being produced by Zim Zum" on the cover of their promotional discs to help them gain a record deal. The band also had some early connections with fellow rockers Marilyn Manson ex-drummer Ginger Fish shared an apartment with Edsel Dope in Las Vegas during the earlier 1990s, before either of them were in their respective bands. Furthermore, the band name "Dope" refers to heroin, which was the common substance Edsel and Simon sold around the New York City area as shown by their early T-shirt designs, which prominently displayed hypodermic needles. In their earliest days, the band sold drugs to survive and purchase instruments. Unlike many of the popular bands from the 1990s, Dope derived their sound from influences taken from heavy metal bands and fused that with the sound of industrial rock acts who had made waves earlier in the decade, such as Ministry and Skinny Puppy. The pair then recruited Sloane Jentry as guitarist, Preston Nash as drummer, and Tripp Eisen as bassist. When the two were adults, they reunited and Simon joined Edsel's band, playing keyboards, samples and percussion. As a child, Edsel and his brother Simon Dope were separated when their parents divorced. The band was founded in 1997 by songwriter and lead vocalist Edsel Dope. The lineup currently consists of founding member and lead singer Edsel Dope, guitarist Virus, bassist Acey Slade and drummer Daniel Fox. ![]() The band has released seven full-length studio albums with their most recent studio album, Blood Money Part Zer0, being released in February 2023. This was the last month of my using.Dope is an American metal band from New York City, formed in 1997. How many fucking times are you going to do this to yourself?" The end was soon to come. It could make me forget all my troubles If I could only sleep a little longer maybe I can make this feeling real. He wanted to walk hand in hand with me while I limped and drained and grimaced in pain. The insanity of our routine did not diminish our affection. The blood and the drugs were all part of the relationship. ![]() And he would sit with me for hours as I tried to get a hit, switching from syringe to new syringe. I had just left Ben when we met so I was not looking for a relationship. He never passed judgement and he never asked me to do things I wasn't willing to do for drugs. He had been raised by junkies so he took care of me in a way I didn't quite comprehend at the time. We were slowly draining the life from each other.ĭaniel and I were the oddest of couples, yet heroin made everything fall into place. I prayed that he would get better yet I was killing him at the same time. I wished I could just curl up in the bed next to him and watch him sleep. They gave him 10mg of methadone and I gave him three grams of heroin. I kissed him deeply and transferred the balloons into his mouth. His eyes and skin were yellow when I helped him check in there. The only way I could get him to go to the hospital with a raging hepatitis infection was the promise of drugs. He is one to tell me about being careful. I let him fix before I did mine and he is just now feeling it. He is slowly sinking forward at the side of the bed. He said this he brushed the hair away from his nodding face. You are going to lose that leg if you aren't careful". I was living outdoors, I was sick, and I knew this might happen. ![]() That day, I did not have the luxury of searching for a vein for two hours. I muscled dope through my pants leg that I mixed with dirty water. ![]() A place inside when I could let this wound drain into a loose bandage. When I got the hard core of the infection out, I would clean out the area. I had taken a new syringe and stuck in the middle of the infected area. I was quite the amateur doctor, at least in my mind. The clinic would slice me open and send me on my way with some sterile water and gauze to pack my wounds. It wasn't getting all that red or hard but it hurt to walk. I needed to lance this abscess to get the pressure off. For now, I needed a place where I could take off my pants. Soon, we will have to do the whole thing all over again. We had hustled all day to get the $35 we needed to stay here tonight plus money for dope. I was laying on the bed of our hotel room. That question rang in my mind for a month to come. How many fucking times are you going to do this to yourself?" "Hand me the alcohol wipes" I reach over the bed " this is finally starting to drain" ![]()
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