{"id":5497,"date":"2011-02-16T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:00:09","slug":"exodus-gary-holt-to-stand-in-for-jeff-hanneman-on-slayer-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=5497","title":{"rendered":"Exodus&#8217; Gary Holt to Stand In For Jeff Hanneman on Slayer Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5499\" href=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?attachment_id=5499\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5499\" title=\"garyholtsolo\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garyholtsolo-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Slayer has tapped Exodus guitarist to fill in for Jeff Hanneman who is recovering after having emergency surgery on his right arm late last month.\u00a0 Hanneman contracted a serious infection, possibly caused by a spider bite.  He  is now recuperating at home and is expected to make a full recovery.  He  will return to the <strong>SLAYER<\/strong> lineup as soon as he has fully recovered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Jeff<\/strong> is our brother, we&#8217;ve all been friends and together as a band for almost 30 years,&#8221; said <strong>Araya<\/strong>, &#8220;so we just want him to completely recover as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After everything that happened last year,&#8221; <strong>King<\/strong> added, &#8220;we all agreed that we just can&#8217;t let our fans down again,&#8221; referring to <strong>Araya<\/strong>&#8216;s  severe back and neck pain that prompted his January 2010 surgery,  unfortunately leading to the band&#8217;s postponement or cancellation of  numerous shows in 2009 and 2010.  &#8220;<strong>Jeff<\/strong> is totally on board with  this decision, so we will tour as planned.  At this point, we can&#8217;t  pinpoint exactly what day he&#8217;ll be back, but he&#8217;ll be back as soon as he  possibly can.  And we can&#8217;t wait for <strong>Jeff<\/strong> to get better and get his ass back on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fucking awesome that they tapped Holt for this job.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kinda like keeping it in the family.\u00a0 I personally can&#8217;t wait to hear this line up of Slayer.\u00a0 It will be amazing to hear solos played by a guy who can tune his guitar and play in key!\u00a0 You can bet your ass I&#8217;ll have clips as soon as they pop up but in all seriousness, I wish Jeff nothing but the best and a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slayer has tapped Exodus guitarist to fill in for Jeff Hanneman who is recovering after having emergency surgery on his right arm late last month.\u00a0 Hanneman contracted a serious infection, possibly caused by a spider bite. He is now recuperating at home and is expected to make a full recovery. He will return to the SLAYER lineup as soon as he has fully recovered. &#8220;Jeff is our brother, we&#8217;ve all been friends and together as a band for almost 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}