Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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And then you're chasing laughs. I found myself after the first show, it's you're chasing these laughs, this validation coming from people. Yes, I'm funny. Yes, what I'm saying has an impact and speak the truth and hope it lands.
Never really any radio play. We were rather extreme for that. I worked a straight job for the first eight or nine years of the band.
I was a restaurant cook and also a roofer.
My guitar player, Mark, and I both roofed together for a while. That's not an easy job.
Sure, absolutely. Yeah. It's a bunch of pirates. The restaurant business allows you flexibility to go out on the road. Most of my bosses, I'm like, look, I'm going to go on tour for a little bit. And they're like, I'd give them, you know, a few weeks notice or a month or two notice. And they're like, okay. And then when you come back, hey, you got any shifts? You pick them up.
There's this massive, I wouldn't even call it a deceleration process. It's just an impact. You're on tour and you have this schedule and everyone's happy to see you. And we were working straight jobs while touring in tour buses, which people see a tour bus and they think it's this magical vehicle that indicates you're just rolling in cash.
but you come off you're signing autographs you're playing in front of people who love your music and they're excited to see you and then it's okay I'm back to washing dishes boom exactly what is this stuck to my never mind don't answer that I don't want to know what I'm cleaning off with my bare hands right now but as you said it was a gradual process and it
I'm fully prepared for it all to go away one day. You never know.
No. I've seen that. I know people in our world who got pretty famous... At 21 years old. And some of them are still trying to recover from that. You're not equipped to deal with that stuff at all at that age. And our quote unquote fame has been very gradual, steady, incline up. we're grateful for that. Every new thing that happens for us, we're like, wow, this is cool.
I don't come from money. I started working my first job when I was 12. Who hires a 12-year-old? A bookstore. I got paid like $2 an hour and I found out what the 18 and over people were making and the owner was like, what are you going to do? Yeah. And I was like, oh, screw you.
Then I'd be a snitch, you know, and I love working at the bookstores. I wound up just mostly doing lawn work after that, making better cash than sitting in the bookstore.
I was really surprised. I was 12 or 13, and I started running the cash register.
So that's real work, right?
Sure. I am the same guy. I think being in such an aggressive band, and there's this idea about people in bands as aggressive as mine, whether it be metal, hardcore, or punk, that are quote-unquote angry bands. Those of us in those bands and people in the community that go see these bands, to the outside eye, it may look violent and chaotic and crazy.
But again and again, you will hear from people who go to a metal show with a friend for the first time. They're like, everyone was so nice. And I think as far as the person on stage and the person in front of you, they're the same person. But the onstage person, I'm allowed to release a lot of energy, a lot of aggressive energy in a controlled environment. Yeah.
I don't go running down the street screaming in people's faces.
Yeah. Then I'd just be a tweaker. They do that downtown. Yeah, they do that. So for me, it's an aspect of my person. I don't sing about dragons and dragons. Fantasy stuff. I sing about real things, mostly things that concern me and upset me. Sociopolitical issues, environmental issues, and things like that. And that's stuff that really gets my gears grinding.
On stage, I can release that in that manner. It's a release valve. And the people that come to the shows... that engage in this very physical act of viewing this music, whether it be banging their heads, moshing, or just jumping up and down, it's a release valve for them too.
There are jerks every now and then, but there are jerks in this building somewhere right now. You're talking to one. Yeah. Our community tends to self-regulate itself. That just unrestrained aggression to try and purposely hurt someone, it gets dealt with.
David Draymond.
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