I have lost friends to similar situations. This is a story that is all too-common, not just for musicians, but for a staggering number of Americans. With no income and no healthcare, Riley self-medicated to relieve his chronic pain. It is intended to kill people that are older or in extreme poverty, and then what? The people who couldn’t handle a new wave of inflation sink to the bottom, and now it’s their time to starve.” I may as well just throw myself off a building if I wanted to get my money’s worth out of that insurance. If I went to the public marketplace for insurance, I would be paying $250 a month with like a $5,000 deductible. In an interview given during the height of the pandemic, he told the Austin Chronicle, “MusiCares is a joke. His income was minimal and he did not have health insurance. As a young musician in America, Riley did not have a safety net. If you saw a Power Trip show, you saw Riley Gale performing his heart out despite his constant pain. Gale sustained a chronic back injury with an on-stage accident in 2014. I think it’s a scary situation where you can become addicted to something and not even enjoy it. But it’s never a situation where I’m getting high. Where Townes had resigned himself to a slow death to addiction, Riley saw an opportunity to break the chains that had ensnared so many of his friends. At the same time, he recognized the precarity of his own situation by saying, “I’m in a lot of pain a lot of times and I have to take some pain killers. The song was meant as a response to Townes Van Zandt’s fatalistic song of the same name. He told us the story of “Waiting Around to Die” from Nightmare Logic. But one subject has haunted me in the months since his passing. It was a joy to hear him speak with so much passion about everything from community support to comic books. We also disregard the insidious motives of capital that prematurely ended Gale’s life, and the lives of countless others.īack in 2017 I had an opportunity to talk with Riley. In a rush to publish the intimate details of the biggest-hearted man in American metal and punk, we do a disservice to his life and legacy. They’ll tell you, in BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE detail, how Riley died of an overdose.
Yesterday, the Blast Beat Network of metal blogs disregarded the wishes of Riley Gale’s family.
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