Randy Blythe
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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And that's not something you can do in a normal job. If you were going to go into your job at a law firm, you can't just stand up on desk and be like, all right, I want some cocaine. And who's got it? You'd be fired immediately. HR would come in with a security guard and carry you out. So live existing in that sort of environment was a great place to develop my alcoholism.
And it was a lot of fun at first until it wasn't.
I mean, the part I'm talking about, as you mentioned, I really look at the history of where I'm going and so forth. And I... really love on going on tour i love going to go see where uh writers lived when they were back in their early days of their career for instance ernest hemingway a huge fan very obsessed with his
sort of lost generation period when he lived in Paris with Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein and all that stuff. So I'll go to Paris and I will walk the left bank and I will go have a coffee in the Dome or the Select, all the cafes where he wrote. And I'll go see where he lived and
Or I've been in Santiago in Chile and I will go to Las Chascona, which is Pablo Neruda's house in outside Santiago, one of his residences, and go through there and just look at the environment in which he created, in which he wrote. Or one of my favorite more modern authors, this guy Pat Conroy, who's a masterful storyteller from Beaufort, South Carolina.
I will go down there and walk through Beaufort, South Carolina and look up where he lived when he was a young school teacher there and was working on his first books, his beginning of his life as an author.
And I will just look at these places and examine them and see the environment, or at least an echo of the environment that they existed in this place that brought forth this creativity from them. And I'll look and I'll examine it. And I get this feeling like, oh, I understand why. they would write about this why this place was so critical to them expressing themselves
And it's just like a personal belief of mine that I think that sort of creative energy may linger. Maybe it's wistful thinking. I don't know. But I'd love to go and see these places and immerse myself in these places. And in my town in Richmond, Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe got his start there.
So I've been to where he had his first job at a newspaper and been to where his house was when he grew up and just sat around and thought about – wow, this place produced this person. And I'm thinking very much about the environment that they were in. And I look at what is there now. And then I think about my own environment.
And I think, what is it about wherever I am right now that makes me want to create? And I think that that sort of energy maybe one day will linger from me. Hopefully some young kid will be
cruising through the alleyways in richmond virginia and they'll be like who won that dude randy from lamb of god he used to walk through this alleyway because i did all of them any alleyway you walk through in the fan that's me and maybe this is where he came up with this idea for this song it's just something i really enjoy going to go see where artists work i don't know if that answered your question
Yeah. And you're talking about the Beatles, not the biggest Beatles fan, but I've been to made of ale studios who to do like the, what became the inheritance of the peel sessions. John peel is a producer there who used to, have his own radio show, very influential in spreading new music in England.
But we were in there and his producer, the guy who inherited the peel show was showing, he's like, see this two inch tape. This is just sitting in the corner, dusty. And he was like, the Beatles did a record on that tape machine. And I'm just like, wow. It's so cool. I just love seeing the little pieces of history and inserting myself in that history in a way. That's also important.
It's not just consuming these places, but I think it feeds my energy because like I said, I never thought we would ever make any money doing this music. My wildest, wildest dream was to play a club called CBGB in New York. Because that was the birthplace of punk rock. It's where the Ramones and Blondie and those guys got their start back in the early mid-70s, even before the Sex Pistols.
So I thought maybe one day we'll get to play CBGB. And in 1997, I believe it was, it's 97 or 98, we got to play CBGB for the first time. And I walked on stage and I... It's it was just a dump, man. But so many great bands played there and it was such a great place to play. And I walked on stage and I felt as if I was walking into history.
I inserted myself into the noble history of that smelly, smelly club. And I did. We got to play it several times and no one can ever take that from me. It's something very dear to my heart.
Sure.
Okay, so I remember precisely when it happened because, like I said at first, alcohol really enhanced my ability to be social, to not feel like such a freak, and to feel more comfortable in my own skin. And so, naturally, I pursued that. I pursued that to great lengths, to Herculean lengths. And then
It stopped working and it stopped working a lot sooner than I thought, but because by then I was addicted to it. I was an alcoholic, so I drank and drank and drank and it would shut up my head a little bit. The voices in my head, because the head is the killer. You can't sit up here too long. My head is a bad neighborhood that I should not go up in without adult supervision.
So I just tried to shut it up by drinking, stuffing down these feelings and this horrible feeling. miserable existence that i was living and one night we we were on tour with metallica and we were in australia and we were mains we we did about a year over the course of two years of as main support for metallica which is the biggest metal band in history and one of the biggest
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