10/18/2023 0 Comments Elton john im still standing meth![]() ![]() The Sheriff’s Department reported that the preliminary autopsy reports came back, but were not conclusive enough to determine the cause of death. ![]() Unfortunately, he didn’t make it to that time.”Ī little over an hour later, at 5:10 pm, he was found dead in Dubuque County jail. Generally, they put them in the cell and wait until they come down from their high. When he got up to the jail floor, he was becoming uncooperative. “His mugshot and fingerprints were not taken. “He was in a paranoid state when he came in,” confirmed Sheriff Joe Kennedy of Dubuque County. The police did not listen to her pleas for medical care for her son, she said instead, an officer moved her down the street.īillmeyer was booked into the so-called “drunk tank” of the jail around 4 pm that day, according to the police report for the incident. Both she and Brown told Filter that Alex appeared to be having visual hallucinations, asking his mother why her untouched face looked like it had black and blue bruises. He needs to go to the hospital,” she recalled pleading. She begged the officers to not take him to jail. For her, she said, it was self-evident: The effects of the meth that he was experiencing seemed life-threatening. In the hours leading up to his death, he was visibly high and was paranoid-“window peeking,” as Carmen called it. His mother had checked him into drug treatment facilities in Iowa City and Waterloo multiple times. ![]() I don’t know what exactly happened.” One thing she did know, though, was that he needed medical attention following his most recent use of methamphetamine.Īlex had been using the stimulant frequently for the past few years. “I don’t know if he swallowed the bag of dope. “His eyes were bulging out of his head,” said Carmen Billmeyer. His family members, including his mother Carmen Billmeyer and sister Rachel Brown, were at the scene, calling for him to come out.Įventually, four police officers carried him out of the house, according to witnesses, who observed that Billmeyer could barely stand on his own. The 29-year-old (pictured above) had entered the house illegally, after leaving a Qwikshop just across the street where he had previously been hiding. Whatever happened - out there, in whatever desert arroyo, former meth lab, decommissioned missile silo, nuclear test site, underground laboratory, convergence of brain waves and gamma rays - QOTSA emerged with not only their best work to date, but one of the most ambitious, fully realized rock albums in recent memory.Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May 26, yelling that people were shooting at him. One day you’re parting ways with your drummer of 10 years - the next day, Elton John shows up.” For everything that went wrong, something went right. “ I’m not trying to get somewhere,” says Homme. “The only pressure is (making sure that) it won’t be the same as the one before.” However highly previous QOTSA releases have been praised, Homme has consistently demonstrated a business plan of not giving a damn. But this time, wherever it was most uncomfortable, that’s where I decided to go.” “I’ve always played my way out of trouble… People usually try and run from chaos. “I’m usually (a guy who) would spit on the floor and say ‘let’s go’”, says Homme. ![]() …Like Clockwork is the first QOTSA album since 2007’s Era Vulgaris and, according to its founder and only identifiable constant, Josh Homme, “ …Like Clockwork’ was the only thing that didn’t happen.”Īfter a lot of “personal ups and downs’, a “manic year”, Homme and the current iteration of the Queens - veteran Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman and Dean Fertita - along with the outgoing Joey Castillo and returning associate Dave Grohl, would decide to embrace The Beast, “ride shotgun on our emotional bandwagon…hold the horrible, lick the lunacy” and, instead of shying away from uncomfortable or painful subject matter - face it head-on.Īlong the way, they picked up known associates Mark Lanegan, Nick Oliveri, Jon Theodore (now drumming full-time in the current live incarnation), Sir Elton John, Trent Reznor, Alex Turner and Jake Shears. Are Queensof the Stone Age a band? An association? A concept? The intermittent issue of an unhinged Carlo Von Sexron? The toxic byproduct of other bands? A variously shrinking and expanding group of friends and likeminded visitors? Or a secret society?Whatever kind of strange and terrible mutation slouched out of the irradiated California wasteland in 1996, it’s evidently still around. What “it” was, exactly, is still a matter of debate. ![]()
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