Monday, October 10, 2011
Music Former Weezer Bassist Mikey Welsh Dies at 40
Posted by Lauren Beck on Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Basically, a lifetime of doing drugs and being undiagnosed as having disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and borderline personality disorder finally caught up with me when I was 30-years-old. At the beginning of a three-month European tour with Weezer, I started slowly falling apart.
It was a series of events that would eventually lead him to turn away from a full-time career in music and dedicate his time to painting. He lived in Burlington, Vermont, working on large-scale figures and, more recently, abstracts. A collection of his work — bright, colorful and intense — can be seen on his blog.
A pair of odd messages posted on Welsh's Twitter account from September 26 certainly put a cryptic twist on things: “dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today,” it reads. Draw from that what you will.
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