![]() ![]() ![]() When he was at his worst with drugs and alcoholism, no one knew if he would still be around. “There were points when we were like, ‘We don’t know if he’s going to live,’” recalls Kelly. “You get to that kind of perspective of ‘Is he going to make it?’ that you can’t plan anything a year from now.” Then Steele found sobriety and was clean for nearly a year until his death. We thought, ‘This guy’s going to be around forever.’ ”Īfter that, the band believed Type O Negative could survive anything: “We were going to be another Motörhead, and we were going to go out there and do this until we couldn’t do it anymore.”įollowing the Dead Again World Tour that ended in Detroit on Halloween 2009 - what turned out to be the foursome’s last show together - Kelly and Steele spoke often in the time leading up to his death. Hickey and Kelly were living in Staten Island Steele was in Scranton, Pa., with his girlfriend. Steele had found a place situated right between Hickey’s and Kelly’s, and was planning to move back by May 1 so they could begin writing and recording their eighth album.
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