Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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Because he's, yes, I served in this and this. And they're like, what did you do? He's like, I was the executioner at Pankratz prison. He wrote the Czech government. I need proof so I can get my government benefits.
From killing thousands of you.
So being in that prison was like being in a Misfits song. I don't know if you know that band. Of course, yeah. Jeez. It's crazy.
Yeah, yeah. My guitar player, Mark, said that one time. I was just like, this is like prison. I just looked at him. I'm just like, no, dude.
No, bro, let's think about this.
Sure, and then you go straight into the history of the Eastern Bloc. The communists came from Russia and from Poland and Czechoslovakia at the time. And Prague is a beautiful city. It's beautiful. But that's only since what they call the Velvet Revolution, 1989. Their first president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, I believe that's how you say his name, was a big rock and roll fan.
Yeah. And the Velvet Underground, one of his favorite bands, a very important political writer. People do well to read his stuff right now. But he was the first president and he had done time in that prison I was in. Oh, wow. He was the first president of the Czech Republic. You go to Prague now, it's beautiful and colorful.
But I talked to people, including a lot of my lawyers and people my age who remembered Prague. Growing up under a communist rule in Czechoslovakia and just gray. The buildings were gray. You go to the grocery store lines. All they have is potatoes. Just grim.
Grim. And I recommend anyone to go to Prague. Beautiful city. Great food. But it wasn't that way.
I will go and play Prague if the conditions are right, meaning that A, it would be for charity, and B, that the family of the young man who passed gives me the blessing. But they have suffered enough, and if I went back to play the Czech Republic, it would be a huge news story.
My face, my existence, and my band's existence have caused them immense pain. I don't wish to do anything further to hurt them.
No, it's much more specific. And that is the two bookends of the story of my book. It starts with the story of a fan I befriended during the last couple of months of his life who was dying of leukemia. And I wrote a song in his honor called The Duke. And around the release of that, we released it as a single.
We did a fundraising thing where we raised almost $15,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. But we also raised awareness for the Be The Match, which is now called the National Bone Marrow Registry. But if you go to BeTheMatch.org, it'll still carry you to it.
So we wrote this song and we put it out and there's an awareness campaign to register for this, particularly not that if you're white, you don't need to do it, but particularly for ethnic minorities, because blood marrow bone types are highly specific, as you're saying. And I think black or African-American people are the most underrepresented people. group on the bone marrow registry.
If you're white, I think you have a 70% chance of matching with a bone marrow donor. If you're black, I think it's 20%.
Yes. So they need more from black people, Hispanic people, Native people, Asian people here in America. So... We did this awareness campaign because it's free. All you got to do is spit in a tube. And I have a friend from another band who beat leukemia because he had a donor. And then Lamb of God's old merch girl died of leukemia. She was diagnosed and a week later she was dead.
Yeah, it was awful. So, pretty passionate about it.
I don't know.
Yeah, and then she was dead, I think, seven to ten days later. Evie Carano, I miss her. But, so that's the beginning chapter. And it's pushing towards awareness and... And the chapter is about mortality, basically, because this young man who died, I befriended, faced his own mortality with such grace and a very stoic demeanor. And I learned a lot from this inspirational guy named Wayne Ford.
Six years after or so, that song came out. We're in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody's touring. Nobody's doing anything. And I'm walking one afternoon over a bridge in Richmond, Virginia, and I'm like, what's going on with my life? This is crazy.
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