In a recent interview with Sin City Sinner’s Jason Green, Stryper guitarist Oz Fox spoke out about his upcoming brain surgery procedure, saying:
“They’re gonna take me in. And I’ve got a great team of people, great team of doctors that are very specialized. They do hundreds of these procedures a year. They’re gonna open up the skull. The good thing is the [first] tumor [they will operate on] is towards the outside of the head, towards the outside of the brain, which it’s easy access — they don’t have to go too deep to get to it. And they did all testing on me to make sure that wherever they go in there, they won’t damage any of my functions.
”They did some really extensive testing — something called an fMRI, Functional [Magnetic Resonance Imaging], and they had me think about things, they had me actually act like I was playing guitar, and I had to hum backgrounds while I was playing, ’cause I couldn’t move my head or my jaw. I had ’em play a Stryper song, and I just kind of played to it and acted like I was playing guitar and tried to imagine what I was playing. And then they would see where the brain functions were while I was doing all that.” […]
Oz added more, saying he is not afraid of death:
“The worst thing that could happen is something could go wrong and I could pass. Well, if that ever happened, in whatever situation — I could die driving a car, getting in a wreck somewhere or somebody running into me. But because of my [Christian] faith, I know where I’m going, and I have a belief in eternity with my soul. And because I’ve followed Christ for so long now, and I have a full-on relationship — I’ve surrendered my entire life to him — the promises that he gives in his words are that I have a better place to go to after this. I’ll basically be changing addresses with my soul. That’s the mindset I have.
“Nobody wants to ever leave their family or things that they invested in years, but when it’s your time, it’s your time. So that doesn’t scare me. I mean, we could go down in a plane. [Laughs] So, you never know. And I’m certainly not afraid of that — I’m not afraid of death. The only thing I think I’d be… Well, I don’t even wanna say it… There’s not fun ways to die, let’s put it that way. [Laughs] If it’s quick, it’s better. [Laughs]”