Former TUFF Bassist Dies Of A Suspected Drug Overdose
- Apr. 19, 2005
Former TUFF bassist Danny Wilder has died of a suspected heroin overdose, according to a posting at Metal Sludge (which is headed up by Wilder's former TUFF bandmate Stevie Rachelle). Danny "had finished another rehab stint and was in the process of cleaning up his life when he decided to dabble again," the posting adds. "It cost him his life."
Danny Wilder played bass in TUFF during the 1992-1993 touring years. He also played with Emi Canyon (Nasty Habit of MÖTLEY CRÜE) in a project called ALICE IN THUNDERLAND.
Prior to joining TUFF, Danny was well known on the famous Sunset Strip where he made his name playing with the band PARADISE. Danny was raised in Phoenix, Arizona and had been living there over the last several years.
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COMMENT | Another one bites the dust posted by : P.Trick 4/19/2005 11:09:15 AM
Sorry, but I have no tolerance for people who die from a drug abuse.
COMMENT | posted by : drub20 4/19/2005 11:30:13 AM
y'all are insensitive ignorant fools. Be happy for yourselves that you never went down this path, but don't judge those who do. Yes it's sad, but it's not as simple 'some people will never learn'.
COMMENT | Come on... posted by : Brain Dead 4/19/2005 11:32:52 AM
"I have no tolerance..." "Some people will never learn..."
It's easy to say these sorts of things and judge other people as an ignorant observer but even the most intelligent, talented individuals can end up depending on substances.
COMMENT | posted by : WEIRD DUDE 4/19/2005 11:33:13 AM
thats not their fault, thats natural of human beings, mainly teenagers ones, just believe in things living it , if u tell them drugs are the worst thing ever they will not believe very much untill they notice it happening to them but once they notice it they are alredy addicted and when u are addcited hardly u can stop no matter how much u want to...
COMMENT | all bullshit posted by : GhostRider69 4/19/2005 11:41:47 AM
people have free will to choose, and when they make the choice to do drugs for the first time, thats the beginning. It sucks that they die this way but drugs begin as a choice.....a bad one!
COMMENT | posted by : drub20 4/19/2005 12:15:32 PM
young people, especially those with rock n roll leanings, are always going to be attracted to risk, danger, thrills, and highs. and they generally have an unhealthy invincibility conplex. Couple that with depression, isolation, and fear, and drugs can be your PERFECT solution. Face it, the highs are an amazing experience, especially in the beginning. Otherwise, people wouldn't do hard drugs. It is when it takes over your life and ceases to 'work for you' and begins to work against you that you're fucked. And at that point you usually have no real choice.
COMMENT | This go's to show you... posted by : KANNIBAL KORPSE 4/19/2005 12:16:57 PM
stick with weed!
COMMENT | Ghostrider69... posted by : Brain Dead 4/19/2005 12:25:31 PM
Yep we've all got free will which is invariably influenced by our circumstances, I'm glad your circumstances have brought you to that opinion and I'm not having a go at you but just remember not everyone is that lucky.
The entertainment industry is fucking brimming with drugs and exposure to that every day takes a will of iron not to indulge - if I saw my fellow bandmates snorting Charlie though $100 bills off some models' tits laughing their fucking asses off I doubt I could say no.
COMMENT | Stick with weed and booze, preferably beer posted by : Paster of Muppets 4/19/2005 12:27:49 PM
Why not take stupid risks, drugs fucking kill and there's no way around it. Stick to the shit you know works, and that only gives you a goddamn hangover - so next time you'll maybe remember this and get wiser - and doesn't leavy you dead with a fucking needle sticking out of your arm.
COMMENT | ^ posted by : severedsavior 4/19/2005 12:40:39 PM
gotta agree with the paster of muppets on this one...
personally i don't believe weed is a gateway drug, or if it really is, it never had that effect on me. it may have harmed the food budget when i get the munchies, but i was never tempted to try anything that could get me killed. and i live in amsterdam, fucking drug capital, every corner i turn there is some dude whispering "coke,heroin,xtc" in my face.
but nah, i'll never try that kinda shit...
let me stick to my alcohol and slowly die of liver disease or something..hehe
COMMENT | Uh... posted by : yea 4/19/2005 12:42:12 PM
...Kurt Cobain was depressed and blew his fucking brains out. Were you living under a rock, jamfan95?
That said, drugs fucking suck. I do see something funny in this story in that Blabbermouth are a "self-proclaimed" ultimate metal news site and weren't even giving this press release.
COMMENT | I can only assume you're being sarcastic Paster... posted by : Brain Dead 4/19/2005 12:47:24 PM
Booze kills over 100,000 Americans a year!!! The main reason heroin addicts die from overdoses is coz they've brought a dose that is stronger than usual without them knowing or one that is cut with other shit.
I fuckin' love booze but I'm not stupid enough to think it only gives me a "goddamn hangover..." Just like I know that weed isn't much fucking better for you than cigarettes.
COMMENT | It would have been a shame... posted by : losferwrds 4/19/2005 1:23:37 PM
..if he had any talent. Just another dead junkie, BFD!
COMMENT | BRAIND DEAD... FOR REAL? posted by : Gery Vermin 4/19/2005 2:01:51 PM
their fucking asses off I doubt I could say no.
If you're fellow bandmates were laughing their fucking asses off whilst sucking on the barrels of deer rifles wedged between some models tits could you say "no"? WHAT'S THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE?!
You're a good speller and can form complete sentences, surely you're not that much of a moron are you?
It takes a "will of iron" to simply get through life. I don't consider myself necessarily "privileged" or "lucky" - unless that happens to be intelligent enough NOT cram poison into my shnozz or squirt piss into my circulatory system. I don't know of any addicts that became that way by way of accidentally running into a hypo full of junk or from licking an acid-coated Donald Duck stamp given to them on their childhood playground. In almost every single case of addiction, the problem starts with successive and conscious choices.
How can it be 2005 and people STILL oblivious to the fact that this shit kills you? A government conspiracy to keep the population of the simple-minded from getting to high perhaps?
COMMENT | math...... posted by : mfiasco 4/19/2005 3:31:04 PM
Although I used to dabble in a bit of the ol' wacky-tobaccy when I was younger, it made me paranoid as hell, so I quit. Other than that, I've never done any illicit drugs. I've always wondered why anyone would want to, when you can get a pretty good buzz from booze and weed. Eight or Nine beers later, and I'm having the fucking time of my life!!
Mmm... BEER... c(_)
COMMENT | posted by : madseasons 4/19/2005 4:59:36 PM
The bottom line is that we all have addictions. Weather it be porn, cigarettes, drugs....whatever. I would never look down on someone with addictions just for that simple fact. Some of out addictions are more malicious than others, but either way it is still an addiction. I can's stop smoking, I am sure I could, but it is really hard. It is the same way for these people with drug addictions. Nobody's addictions define them as a person.
COMMENT | Guess he really wasn't that "TUFF" after all posted by : JayinOhio 4/19/2005 5:55:14 PM
Seriously though, when the hell are people going to learn that if you do the strong shit like heroin, you're gonna die sooner than later.
COMMENT | ... posted by : Lycanthropunk 4/19/2005 7:51:24 PM
R.I.P.
COMMENT | no sympathy from me..... posted by : constipated rabbit 4/19/2005 10:38:32 PM
If you are stupid enough to do that shit...you deserve to be dead....anybody with a braincell knows what that shit will do to you....it is like playing russian roulette with all of the chambers full.....maybe the gun will go off?.....maybe it will jam?.....fucking retard.....
COMMENT | posted by : ZeroAgain 4/20/2005 1:33:29 AM
He wasnt tuff enough!
COMMENT | YOU GUYS ARE TOOLS posted by : BreakerMetal 4/20/2005 9:46:31 AM
SORRY TO HEAR IT DUDE, PEACE
COMMENT | Peace go with you my brother posted by : Ratthefink 4/20/2005 6:27:11 PM
To those who have seen fit to bash, I wont wish upon you the loss of someone close, and I wont lecture on the sinister trap of addiction. Hold those you care about close in your heart, none of us knows how and why we will leave, and the surprise can be truly terrible.
Dan was my brother, not in the flesh, but nonetheless, like family to me. I grew up with him, we went through highschool together, were in our first bands together. I believe the first time Dan played a club was at an open mic night at a local dive long since gone, Black Widows Night Gallery. If faded memory serves the band we were in at the time was named Diamond Lil (gah), he was far to young to be in there, but we played a tune (cant recall which, prolly a Maiden cover) and got out of there before anyone noticed.
Over those early years he and I played in a few bands, he had a natural apptitude. I always got a huge kick out of seeing this kid whos bass was bigger than he was at the time chewing through Steve Harris lines with reckless abandon, always with a huge grin on his mug.
His enthusiasm was boundless, and you could just tell, he was more than flesh, blood and bone, he was only truly complete with a bass in his hands, grin flashing under a mane of hair.
During his years in Paradise, some of us from the old neighborhood would fly out to LA to see him, was a trip to see him up on stage at the Roxy, was what he always wanted.
Over the last few years we had not spoken. As good of friends as we had been years back, things had come between us. I suspected he battled drugs, but didnt see a way through the distance that had grown between us to make a difference. For that I am the kind of sorry that doesnt go away.
My heart goes out to his family, and all those who called him friend. He was one of a kind, creative, funny, and sadly taken too soon by demons that haunt us all in one form or another.
Farewell brother, you'll live on in my heart and mind till my time comes. Im gonna miss you more than electronic ink can ever hope to express. Peace..
Scott
COMMENT | Well Fuck.... posted by : islandgurl 4/21/2005 1:19:37 AM
I have to say that NONE of us know what was going through his head !!!!!!! I knew the guy for many years and I (along MANY of his friends) are in shock. Dan had tried to clean himself up and obviously had a hard time staying off the shit. For those of you having a blast bashing him now that he is dead, tomorrow try giving up something that you do daily (coffee, cigs, pot, your cell phone.....etc) Lets see how well you do!!!!!
I am heartbroken that I will never see my friend again. He may not have been the best bassist or made the best choices in his life but at least he can say he did it on his terms.
R.I.P. My friend I love you always!!!!!
COMMENT | Danny Boy posted by : Grifftaff 4/23/2005 6:34:30 AM
Danny was my dear,dear friend. I've just a few hours ago returned home to LA from his funeral in Phoenix. The news last Sunday broke my heart. Danny had a huge heart. He had an amazing capacity to love and try to help. He was also troubled and hurt. Those of us who knew him know why so I'm not going to get into that here. Danny helped me through my darkest times. And for all the morons out there who suppose that I must be just another junkie I'd like to point out that I was 100% clean and sober of drugs and alcohol at the time and have never and never will "make the choice to do heroin". I was simply (as if it's ever simple) extremely depressed. That's life. Sometimes it throws situations at us that some of us never truly recover from. For others it's a walk in the park. Nothing is ever that simple. Or maybe it is - simply put - Danny saved my life. To all you witty,clever little idiots with your pathetic one-liners I can only wonder what is so wrong with your own lives that you have to embarass yourselves trying to make light of other peoples pain. Maybe you like that band that puts the S into Laughter. While that's a great joke and I don't like that band, does that give me the right to get a cheap laugh at the expense of their dead guitar players family. And before you reply that he died in a car accident and not of a drug overdose let me remind you that death is final and painful whatever the cause. I bet at least half of the self-righteous, I'm too smart to do drugs crowd smoke........and that's going to kill most of you. Now who's stupid. Let people grieve and remember Danny and all the others in happier times. Having said that...it's a shame they couldn't spell TOUGH. That's for you Danny Boy. Griff
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