{"id":21313,"date":"2019-12-02T20:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T03:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=21313"},"modified":"2023-11-03T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:15:31","slug":"slayer-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/slayer-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Slayer was&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/35153352630\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"SLAYER!\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/35153352630_d9349f25d2_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" alt=\"SLAYER!\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>@COPENHELL #copenhell @Slayer #slayer<\/p>\n<p>Slayer is done. I think we&#8217;ll see Kerry King do some things going forward, but Tom is done, and I don&#8217;t blame him. He has back issues, and I know how that feels. I&#8217;m almost done thanks to a back injury. <\/p>\n<p>Slayer played their final show last weekend. I was fortunate enough to see them play in the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s. There will be no reunions in the 20s. I saw them live in three different countries. I saw them from the photo pit and from the grass, a million miles from the stage, at Shoreline in Mountain View.<\/p>\n<p>I think the most memorable moment was when I saw them in 1991 in Oakland. <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/testament\/>Testament<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/megadeth>Megadeth<\/a> were the openers. Megadeth and Slayer were touring on their finest albums IMO. This was in January, just prior to the Gulf War. Pre-9\/11 security at shows was not very intense. At this show fans had brought in a wide variety of fireworks (for an indoor concert!). During the first song a number of bottle rockets and roman candles went off. With all of the &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; fireworks Tom jokingly said something like, &#8220;Hey, the war isn&#8217;t supposed to start until Wednesday!&#8221; based on something George Bush had said a few days prior. Sure enough the war in Iraq did start on the following Wednesday although the pit for Slayer (just a few days before the actual war) seemed to indicate otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/slayer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/slayer.jpg 2373w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/slayer-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/slayer-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/slayer-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@COPENHELL #copenhell @Slayer #slayer Slayer is done. I think we&#8217;ll see Kerry King do some things going forward, but Tom is done, and I don&#8217;t blame him. He has back issues, and I know how that feels. I&#8217;m almost done thanks to a back injury. Slayer played their final show last weekend. I was fortunate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[413,590,540,539,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28383,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions\/28383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}