Famed and prolific ‘70s drummer Jim Gordon, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia after murdering his mother in 1983, has died at the age of 77. Gordon died at the California Medical Facility in Vacavillle after a lifelong struggle with mental illness.
“Jim said very quietly, so only I could hear, ‘Can I talk to you for just a minute?’ He meant he wanted to talk alone,” Coolidge said. “So we walked out of the room together … And then he hit me so hard that I was lifted off the floor and slammed against the wall on the other side of the hallway… It came from nowhere.”
Work continued to flow in for Gordon after the assault. Over the years he played drums for Dave Mason, Alice Cooper, Helen Reddy, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Johnny Rivers, and Tom Petty. Despite hushed visits to the hospital for outpatient treatment, Gordon’s mental health—.
In 1983, after weeks of increasingly concerning behavior, he bludgeoned and stabbed his 72-year-old mother to death, saying that the voices in his head told him to kill her. For years, his mother’s voice ran throughthat protected him and deluded him. He soon received an official schizophrenia diagnosis and was sentenced to 16 years in prison for second-degree murder.
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