Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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So there's this sort of purposeful erasing of the barrier between audience and performer and that's the world I come from and as my band got bigger and bigger and bigger and I'm not in a punk rock band I'm in a metal band with
punk rock roots in parts so i'm not in a strictly punk rock band as the band gets bigger and it goes away from the sort of punk rock touring environment and stuff and you actually start making and living and stuff and being able to support family there's this strange guilt thing It's a strange thing.
In some ways, I think it's good because people could be a bit more conscious about, I think, the things that they view as valuable or things to aspire to. Being a super rich dude does not interest me.
It does not interest me. I'm not allergic to making money. Don't get me wrong. But having money for the sake of having money to sit around and buy designer things is zero interest.
No. And that is not something that I aspire to. And I think with the youth, once again, and social media and influencers and all that stuff, you got to have this. You got to have this. No, you don't. That doesn't say anything about your worth as a person. And you don't need to have money to have worth as a person or the latest Jordans or the fanciest car or any of that crap. You don't need that.
You're a good person no matter what you own. So in a sense, I think punk rock guilt is good in that it makes you keep it real and not forget where you come from. But in the other sense, it can be counterproductive because punk rock guilt, the reason why I write about it is because I have a reforestation project in Ecuador.
And I bought this property at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when things had gone just sideways in my life personally and for everyone. It was a nightmare. And my job had disappeared because I am a glorified traveling black cotton salesman. That's how musicians make their money, t-shirts.
That's right. Black cotton. I'm a black t-shirt salesman. The taxes say musician in reality. I'm slinging merch. So I bought this cattle land.
Cattle land. Oh, cattle land. Pardon my southern accent, man.
Catalan, boy.
But I bought this because I have Ecuadorian friends who are doing a lot of the same things. And I was like, I'll just make my money back once I go back on tour. But that didn't happen. So I didn't go back on tour because COVID. And we live in Richmond, Virginia, where expenses are not what they are, although it's gotten much more expensive in, say, Los Angeles or New York or wherever.
Cost of living is comparatively doable. But even not making any money, I need to make this money back somehow.
and this company cameo who quote celebrity greetings which i don't think of myself as a celebrity at all they had been bothering me for years you need to do this you need to do this and other friends of mine had done it one of my buddies did it to pay his back taxes i finally i'm like okay i need to make my money back i don't have any other way to making money right now
And I don't know when my job is going to come back. I better start singing some happy birthday.
One reason why I didn't do it is because punk rock guilt for so long. Who do you think you are? Do you think you're Elvis? The dudes in Black Flag never sang happy birthday for $20. They also used it for charitable purposes.
I raised money for respirators in India at the beginning of COVID-19 because our guy who books us in India and another girl I know, they're like, they're burning bodies on the sidewalk outside.
Post-apocalyptic and sent me videos. I got video of people on fire.
On the sidewalk because it's wild.
Sadly, yes, they did. This is cartel activity in Ecuador, which was formerly known as Isla de Paz. I believe that's how you say in Spanish, Island of Peace, in between Colombia and Peru, I think. Two big cocaine-producing nations. Ecuador was not part of that. And over the last few years, it's gotten worse. Since I've been there, the cartels have moved in.
Also, the Colombian crime syndicates who are producing the cocaine. Because it's a shipping lane. They aren't really producing cocaine there, but it's become a really valuable shipping lane. And also the Armenian Mafia. Very strange. That's a weird connection. Very strange. Armenian mafia, Colombian crime groups, and the Mexican cartels are there. And it is now a contested shipping lane.
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