You know a singer must mean it – meaning, as The Oblivians sang years ago in “Live The Life”: ‘you’ve got to live the life that you sing about in your songs – when he asks his doctors to increase his defibrillator trigger’s heartbeats-per-minute from 192 BPMs because 192 is the rate at which one of his bands’s tunes rises, and the singer’s defibrillator was triggered because his heart rate reached 192. This caused him to nearly die on stage. True story! The doctors kindly obliged, and the trigger rate now rests at 200 or so.
The singer is Aaron Lazar, and his band, The Giraffes, were featured in a recent New York mag profile. It’s worth a read as it describes in painful detail Lazar’s not just near-death experiences, but actual death experiences, and how his heart condition will affect the rest of his life, including, most importantly, his life as singer of this punk-metal band. Pretty riveting reading, and I’ve a whole new appreciation of Lazar.
Filed under: music | Tagged: Giraffes, New York magazine
