Guitarist suffered a stroke that left permanent damage to his brain, affecting his way of playing the instrument
Article published on April 4, 2025 at Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, click here.
The guitarist Richie Faulknerfrom Judas Priestis sharing more details about your health difficulties in recent years. In an interview with Premiergatethe musician revealed that he suffered a stroke that left permanent damage to his brain, affecting his way of touching the instrument.
Faulknerwho had already suffered an aorta aneurysm during a 2021 show, explained that in 2022 he noticed that “something was different” in the way he wore his right hand to play guitar and brush his teeth. He decided to consult a doctor and quickly found that he had brain damage after suffering a stroke, not a transient ischemic attack (AIT), as he had believed earlier.
“They found some damage to the left side of the brain, which affects the right side [do meu corpo]. Now, fortunately, I don’t touch the guitar with my foot, so that’s ok. I can handle it. But my hand, obviously, is my engine, “he said.
The musician explained that after investigations, doctors found that the damage is permanent and caused by stroke. Rather, it was expected to be provisional and could disappear.
In the interview, Faulkner He said he worried that people quickly realized that he was not playing the band’s songs correctly and was very “fear” and “the feeling of being an impostor” about how the condition would affect him.
I just thought that if I communicated this, this was accessible fact, so I would be telling the truth. You cannot discuss the truth. This is how it is. I still play, we are still writing records, we are still playing the strongest we can, nothing affects it. But there are only little things that I have to do. “
“I go out every night thinking … Sometimes I leave the stage and call home and say, ‘I can’t do that. I can’t.’ There are things I used to play: I used to think of something and it came out. And now I’m fighting with a rhythmic pattern.
Shortly after the heart emergency on stage in 2021, the doctor of Faulkner, Siddharth pahwahe said the musician was still alive “because the stars aligned themselves.” Pahwa He commented at the time: “He had an exceptional emergency care team, was close to a world -class cardiac center and was quick to recognize that he needed help.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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