Bands with the worst health problems

[Traxan]

Aldious, the band that started me on my Japanese girl band following, lost another member due to a health problem, which got me to wondering what other bands have had such a lousy streak. Aldious's body count is pretty big:

Singer Rami - undisclosed brain condition. She returned to music but did very little
Singer Re:no - ear condition caused her eustacean tubes to open, nearly causing her to faint on stage.
Singer Rin - mental breakdown, dropped 10kg and was hospitalized
Drummer Marina Bozzio (Terry's stepdaughter) - ulcerative colitis.

The first American band that comes to mind is Nevermore.

Warrel - diabetes, dead from a heart attack
Tim Calvert - dead from ALS
Steve Smyth - kidney failure
Jim Sheppard - brain tumor

Who else has had shitty luck?

[zennablade]

The Ramones

[DemonFilth2001]

Aldious, the band that started me on my Japanese girl band following, lost another member due to a health problem, which got me to wondering what other bands have had such a lousy streak. Aldious's body count is pretty big:

Singer Rami - undisclosed brain condition. She returned to music but did very little
Singer Re:no - ear condition caused her eustacean tubes to open, nearly causing her to faint on stage.
Singer Rin - mental breakdown, dropped 10kg and was hospitalized
Drummer Marina Bozzio (Terry's stepdaughter) - ulcerative colitis.

The first American band that comes to mind is Nevermore.

Warrel - diabetes, dead from a heart attack
Tim Calvert - dead from ALS
Steve Smyth - kidney failure
Jim Sheppard - brain tumor

Who else has had shitty luck?

I know the Japanese are obsessed with crazy gangbang bondage. Especially with very young women. Could this pedo/abusive fetish be partly to blame for Aldious' health issues?

[BulletProofPoet]

Y&T

[VinnieVincentsVag]

The Beatles.
Murder, attempted murder, cancer

[Bono Nettencourt]

Y&T

Their career was dead long before any of the band members were.

[Psychobolia.com]

Stryper: Michael Sweet thyroid cancer / Oz Fox brain tumor
Scab Row: cancelling every other show
Priest: Glenn Tipton's Parkinsons / Fake KK's heart attack during Painkiller solo / Halford's hunched over and walking with a cane

[Traxan]

Priest: Glenn Tipton's Parkinsons / Fake KK's heart attack during Painkiller solo / Halford's hunched over and walking with a cane

Not to mention Dave Holland dead.

[VinceVanLane]

The answer is, "who is Aerosmith."

[SterileEyes1]

Most top tier touring rock bands these days are in phenomenal physical condition. I’d think Aerosmith is the obvious answer, but then again they’re ~75, all physically ripped, and were still doing it as of a couple months ago.

Thinking I’ll pick pre-J5 Motley. Vince and Mick require no explanation, there’s no way Tommy is healthy at 61 after all the smoking and drinking that he still does, so they’ve got one healthy guy out of four.

[Traxan]

Except no one in Crue died and only one left due to health problems.

[Zabooka]

Livin' in a Wheelchair - https://youtu.be/4_zs6l--nqU

[BernieTaupson]

The Beatles.
Murder, attempted murder, cancer

Ringo spent years in hospital as a kid. And got subbed out in 64 on tour when he had tonsillitis.

[BernieTaupson]

Badfinger count? Two guys hanged themselves and the drummer had a brain aneurysm.

[Kid-Wicked]

spinal tap.

and just based on the amount of former members, l.a. guns.

[Einstein Lawless]

Lynyrd Skynyrd?

[Love_Industry]

Black Sabbath?

Ozzy - Parkinson's, spinal/neck injury and more
Iommi - cancer, lost fingertips in accident
Bill - heart problems
Geezer - stomach lroblems, Crohns?
Dio - died from cancer
Ray Gillen - died from aids
Geoff Nicholls - died from cancer
Cozy Powell - died in a car crash

[Hellsinkey]

Lynyrd Skynyrd?

Or the original Molly Hatchet.

[Sleek]

I meannnn, it's gotta be the Ramones or Motorhead, where every member of each band caught an incurable case of FUCKING DYING, right?

[Traxan]

Black Sabbath?

Ozzy - Parkinson's, spinal/neck injury and more
Iommi - cancer, lost fingertips in accident
Bill - heart problems
Geezer - stomach lroblems, Crohns?
Dio - died from cancer
Ray Gillen - died from aids
Geoff Nicholls - died from cancer
Cozy Powell - died in a car crash

Oh man we have a winner.

[Ziggy Sawdust]

Def Leppard-

Rick having his arm ripped off
Steve Clark dying
Viv Campbell - Cancer
Rick getting beaten up

[CrankerBait]

The Grateful Dead weren't exactly the healthiest band around. Many of their members didn't come remotely close to qualifying for senior discounts. It was a minor miracle that Jerry Garcia - super overweight, lifelong smoker, diabetic, heroin and cocaine addict - made it into his 50s. Two of their keyboard players died in their 30s. (One died of a speedball, the other in a car accident before the heroin and/or alcohol could get him.) Another keyboardist, the first one, checked out at 27 after years of basically drinking himself to death. Yet another died in his 50s, sadly as a result of suicide. Amazingly, Phil Lesh is in his 80s after surviving Hep C, a liver transplant, and multiple types of cancer.

[Love_Industry]

Priest: Glenn Tipton's Parkinsons / Fake KK's heart attack during Painkiller solo / Halford's hunched over and walking with a cane

Not to mention Dave Holland dead.

Early drummer John Hinch too, and Halford almost died from an overdose in 1985.

[Psychobolia.com]

I forgot Israel Vibration, all 3 of the guys have/had polio.

[VinnieVincentsVag]

The Beatles.
Murder, attempted murder, cancer

Ringo spent years in hospital as a kid. And got subbed out in 64 on tour when he had tonsillitis.

Didn’t Sutcliff (sp?) have an aneurysm also?

[Bono Nettencourt]

I meannnn, it's gotta be the Ramones or Motorhead, where every member of each band caught an incurable case of FUCKING DYING, right?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/051364c5-0 ... b2fbaee8b0

[richard cranium]

Def Leppard-

Rick having his arm ripped off
Steve Clark dying
Viv Campbell - Cancer
Rick getting beaten up

Rick Savage had Bell's Palsy also.

[Tenacious_Dio]

Molly Hatchet

[bluesykindaguy035]

Possessed singer Jeff Bercera lost ability to walk after armed robbery. Still performs in a wheelchair. Also he told me on twitter that one of his eyes is almost blind

[Bono Nettencourt]

Def Leppard-

Rick having his arm ripped off
Steve Clark dying
Viv Campbell - Cancer
Rick getting beaten up

Rick Savage had Bell's Palsy also.

Yeah... and why didn't they wait to film their BtM until he recovered?