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With Type O Negative’s success also came problems for Steele, including developing a substance addiction and serving a 30-day jail term. Type O Negative was an outlet to let him be something different than what he was. Really just the opposite of how he was portrayed.

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He said he walked up to this girl, and he was just about to say something to her, and she just turned around to him and said, “Don’t even think about it,” and walked away from him! His troubles got in the way of him really reaching his full potential. He said he saw this gorgeous Russian girl, and he walked up to her, and Peter had “game” - women were attracted to him. He’d go hang out with other friends and the bars that he went to – he always stayed local. He didn’t venture far away from his house. A lot of stuff happened to him when he was just going to the store on the corner. He told me he got mugged one night! He got mugged up the block from his house. But other than that, he was pretty easygoing. But then, after a while, he got “acclimated” – his troubles are pretty well documented. I would be like, “Peter, you’ve got to write a book one day, because these things don’t happen to normal people.” Seriously, he would go, “I just had to go to the corner store for something, and this is what happened just now.” He never really wanted the “rock star life.” He totally would have been content just working for the city, doing his time, and retiring.

You know what happened to me today?” And it would be the craziest story. I would talk to him, and he was like, “Listen to this. I know you don’t like hockey, but you’ve got to come watch this game with us!”īut he could never step out of his house without some kind of crazy shit happening to him. And we were like, “Peter, you’ve got to come watch this. A few of us went to a bar across the street from the club we were playing. So when the Rangers were about to go to the Cup, they were playing the Devils in game seven, and it went into overtime. At the time, there were a few of us on the crew, we were all big hockey fans. I’d see him in the rehearsal studios and we’d sit there and just talk about things like health benefits, and “How many days off do you get?” He wasn’t really into sports too much, but we did make him come to the bar with us when the Rangers advanced to the Stanley Cup. Like, I remember before I joined the band, he was working for the Parks Department and I was working for the Post Office - I was a mailman. Johnny Kelly: I always said my impression of Peter was he wanted to be a normal person really bad…but he couldn’t! Given the nature of how he looked and what he did, but he really just wanted to be a regular guy. In remembering his bandmate, Kelly shared his thoughts on Steele as follows: While Steele may have appeared as an intimidating and dark figure, longtime Type O Negative drummer Johnny Kelly recalled a different side of the frontman in the book Survival of the Fittest: Heavy Metal in the 1990s (by author and Heavy Consequence writer Greg Prato). The band would continue to amass legions of fans up until Peter’s death in 2010, releasing a total of seven studio albums over their 20-year career. 1” and went on to achieve platinum status. After their first two albums - Slow, Deep, and Hard (1991) and Origin of the Feces (1992) - Type O Negative hit it big with their third LP, 1993’s Bloody Kisses, which featured the standout “Black No.

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