‘It’s been fucking amazing! This is my first headlining tour with these guys here in Europe, and we just did the festivals before in the summertime. It’s my first time back here doing a headline tour since Soulfly, so I’m really excited.’

 

‘Not really, we played in Paris.  I dressed in a white suit, hahaha, that’s about it, my ode to Keith Moon.’

 

‘Amazing! Every show was great, every show was sold out, we had a great slot right before Deftones and Korn, did a lot of cool shows, made a lot of great friends. Lots of heads out there and lots of good energy out there.’

 

‘Yeah it’s gonna be awesome., those are some big shows. It’s gonna be pretty cool.’

Quite a different crowd than with Soulfly.
 

‘Yeah but this crowd in general is very different than Soulfly’s crowd or even Slipknot’s crowd. Way different. Very diverse, no mosh around punch somebody in the head crowd at all. It’s cool though, I love all those crowds. I don’t condone any crowd, but it’s definitely different. Good energy.’

 
How's Corey holding up after the cancelled Berlin show?

‘He’s getting back there so far the last couple of shows since the first one after that. It took him a couple of days to get it back. It just came out of nowhere, he was fine at the show in Hamburg, the next day, uhhhhh, just horrible. It could be because the dressing room was kind of cold and you just come of a hot stage. We were all not feeling great after that, but he just couldn’t do it so we had to cancel. Either that or do a crappy show. And he didn’t feel like that was the right thing to do and he felt horrible. We all did. We walked out to the parking lot, talked to the kids and explained what was going on, personally apologized to every one of them. Signed everything that they had and hung out with them for like thirty minutes. There were like 500 kids outside, I was really shocked. I was really shocked that they weren’t gonna kick the shit out of us haha! We told them that the tickets are honoured for the next time. So like please hold on to those tickets. We’re gonna use the same promoter, so we told him that anyone who has a ticket for tonight, gets in next time. And he got. So that took care of that.’

 

‘Well actually what Corey got is quite similar to what Tom Araya got. It’s getting everybody. We all just got flu shots and everything before we went on tour. That’s not the flu, just a common cold, but still.’

 

‘His treatment was great man, we thought it was a pretty cool way to represent the song and what that song is about. Basically the fakeness of the industry. And he had a real spot on what the video could be like with the lyrics, and we just said great, let’s go with that. I’m really happy with it.’

It got a lot of airplay in Holland.
 

‘Yeah I heard. I haven’t seen it hehe, but I believe you.’

Did you also drink that amaretto stone sour?

‘I never ever heard of the drink until I joined the band. It’s basically amaretto, orange juice and whiskey I think. It’s a too gross drink. I definitely want to try it some day, I’m in this band so I’ll be devirginized of that. Probably should try it.’

 

‘Exactly, that’s fucking euhw. Thinking about it already gives me the creeps.’

‘I’ve sworn a secrecy oath. Yep, me too. The whole band did.’

 

‘No! I really wanna play that. I asked Josh that the other day, are we gonna play that when we’re playing in Wolverhampton or Birmingham or whatever? And he’s like I don’t know, we haven’t had a chance to really practice that yet. I was like let’s start jamming it, it’s an easy song. But no not yet. I don’t know if we’re gonna do it, I’m up for it! I know it!’

 

‘Ow I love that song. I don’t think we’re gonna do that either. I’m trying to get the band to do ‘My Generation’ by The Who at London Astoria. It would be pretty appropriate to play something like that in London especially. I don’t think that’s gonna happen though. I don’t know, we’re just concentrating on getting out shit going you know what I mean. Worry about the covers later I guess. I don’t wanna blow out Corey’s voice either, save it for our songs. Shit happens.’

 

‘I’m not really into Poison, I guess those guys are in a sort of novelty kind of way. But him in our video, I had no clue he was gonna be in it. And I don’t think he had a clue that he would be playing pretty much himself. He was cool about it. He just finished his reality tv-show and did that, he’s a really nice guy.’

 

‘Yeah it was kind of weird, I was like wow! I think he felt a bit weird about it, but I think it’s totally cool that he did it. He’s very cool.'

‘The gay… hahaha! I don’t own any gay albums!’

You don't have anything like the Spice Girsl or something?

‘Nooo!! I did say I like a lot of music, but I’m not really into Spice Girls. I honestly don’t have something like that. I mean, if I were to say David Bowie, any metal dude will be like ‘that’s gay’. But that’s not gay to me. So anything that I like isn’t gay, hahaha!’

So you don't have a gayest album?

‘Why would I waste my time to buy the gayest album, hahaha!’

 

‘Oh my god! Neither.’

‘I love Terminator man, that’s fucking bad ass! Honestly if I had to choose between Terminator and First Blood, well, Rocky’s a good movie too, the first one. (followed by a Rocky impersonation; ‘fucking Rocky you know, e yo’, followed by an Arnold impersonation; ‘your clothes, give them to me, now!’) Alright, he’s good. I don’t know about him being a governor…’

No no, leave the politics out of it!

‘Thank you, because the last interview I had was all about politics. Motherfucker, that’s why I’m a fucking drummer and not a politician! I can get political if I want but I’d have to be in the mood for that man. I mean, if you really wanna know I’m fucking total left wing man.

 

‘Yeah, but I would like to see what it would be like if there’s like a politician with a more liberal sense to him. In the office. See what happens.’

 

‘Yeah, right or left. You know, I tricked myself when I said that I’m completely left wing, I am, but I do tend to put myself in the middle and hear both sides, but I’ll always agree with the left side. I’ll never agree with the right. To them there are things like survival of the fittest, fuck the rest if you can’t keep up. And that’s what I completely disagree with, I think it’s totally inhumane. Absolutely.’

 

‘Yeah, and that’s why I’m not here as an ambassador of America, but as a musician to tell that it’s not what it seems. Not everybody feels the way that people feel you see on tv. There’s people like me, a handful of us out there that are totally against what’s going on.’

 

‘Well yeah, that’s a good thing.’

‘That’s easy to say.’

‘Yeah.’

 

‘Just uhm, fucking rock on in the free world. Keep on rocking in the free world! Neil Young man.’