Posted on 10/01/2021 1:18:29 PM PDT by mylife
Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner is recovering after undergoing a marathon heart operation earlier this week.
Faulker was hospitalized following Judas Priest's performance at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday after experiencing something his band described as a "major medical heart condition."
While Judas Priest is being careful not to mischaracterize what happened to Faulkner, family and friends have revealed that the guitarist did indeed suffer a heart attack.
In a recent Instagram post sending love to Faulkner, Tesla's Frank Hannon said he "heard [Faulkner] played a show then walked off stage having a heart attack and had 10 hr open heart surgery [Monday] night. Hang in there Richie and I look forward to meeting / jamming with you someday! You got this!"
Faulkner's partner Mariah Lynch, with whom he had a daughter last year, explained Tuesday in an update that he was "stable & resting.
"If you know him, you know how tough & strong he is," she wrote. "So tough that he finished the show & kept the hair flips coming. There's no one like him. We'd be lost without him."
Faulkner, 41, joined Judas Priest in 2011 following the departure of co-founding guitarist K.K. Downing. He's the youngest official member of the band by nearly 20 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at iheart.com ...
Rock and Roll doesn’t die
not this time
Was he vaxxed and when?
If KK Downing really regrets retiring, he could ask to come back now. After all, he’s a founding member, starting the band even before Halford joined.
You are gonna die someday, might as well be using your axe when you do...
my friend country dick montana died playing drums in a gig.
that dude was a trip
The great drummer Buddy Rich suffered a heart attack during a drum solo in 1982 yet finished it and walked off the stage!
Dick died onstage
Prayers out to him. Hopers not as a result of getting backed.
Not to mention they are currently on tour with shows I know will sue them if they try to get out of them.
Gives a whole new connotation to Death Metal! There should be a law that prohibits senior citizens from pretending to be rock and rollers!
So there ya go, heavy metal causes heart attacks...
Ok all jesting aside, I hope he takes it easy and recuperates without complications, before trying to tour again.
i’ve been known to break a few hearts... 😎...
Not at 41 yoa. I've got lots of music to make! I might accept 71 or 81 possibly. But I'd love to see when, or if, he received one of the COVID vaccines.
I suspect within the next 6 months we will see an increase in such occurrences. Many will adopt your position and be lacking in curiosity.
Myocardial injuries, deep vein thromboses, pulmonary embolisms, disease resurgence (cancers) ... I suspect all of these will be dismissed as having no connection with the mRNA/DNA vaccines. Dr Ryan Cole within just a few months of the introduction of the vaccines has noted a 20x increase in diseases normally checked by CD8 T-cells. Testing has shown a substantial lowering of these disease regulating T-cells .
Now that’s a real man!
Wonder if he was neighbors with Handsome Dick Manitoba from the SXM Underground Garage?
Dowling has his own band called ‘KK’s Priest’ so is busy enough. Saw the whole group about ten years ago at Nashville’s OzzFest. I can say that seeing so many musicians from the earlier playing bands in attendance Judas Priest stole the show.
EXCELLENT!
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