Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
Randy Blythe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a big festival in the United Kingdom.
Yes, we were headlining Bloodstock in England two or three years ago, I guess. It's a big music festival. And we were the main act because we do very well in the community there. And there's 40,000 people there, I guess. When you walk on stage, you have a laminate most of the time.
Yes, exactly. It's a tour laminate, and I did not have mine because I'm a sweaty mess. When I go on stage, I'm afraid I'll lose it, or if I leave it, someone will take it. People see tour laminates, they're like, ooh. So normally I give it to my guitar tech or I just leave it locked in the dressing room. On this night, I was like, I probably won't need it. We're the headliners.
So I walked up without my laminate and you have to show your laminate to get on the stage. We're getting ready to play. And this young lady doing her job looked at me and said, excuse me, I need to see your laminate. And I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm an idiot. I don't have it. And someone's like, no, no, no, he's the singer. And she's like, oh, Oh, I'm so sorry. And I'm like, no, don't be sorry.
You're doing your job.
I like you. And it's my fault that I didn't have my laminate. I didn't want to be inconvenienced. So, like, why should I be mad at this woman for doing her job? That's patently insane. She's there to keep me safe.
Which was so surprising to me. I'm like, this is not like some sort of triumph of altruism. This is a decent human being, man.
Yeah, maybe. I guess I look like a mean person, but my girlfriend says I have a mean demeanor.
When I'm walking around, I guess she looked at me and I'm like, I don't know if that's okay.
Yes, I'm a really nice guy. But when that came out, you know, I've talked to a lot of security people and they're like, dude, there are band guys that...
I just work here. So for me, I always like to poke fun at myself and say, don't you know who I think I am?
We played a few, like a year later in Bristol, England, and someone told me, yo, I think her name was Sarah. They're like, she's working tonight. And I'm like, oh my God, the same lady. I got to see her and give her a big hug. And then we did this whole like skit where I acted like I was security and she was trying to come backstage. I'm like, wait, wait, wait, I need to see your ID.
And my band is, you jerk, don't you know who she is?
No, it's the same guy. We played a festival in Milwaukee a couple of years ago. Milwaukee Metal Fest, a friend of mine puts on. And I got a kink in my neck. from swinging them around and it wouldn't leave for like two weeks. And I was like, okay, that's it. It was constantly hurting my neck. I surf too. And they get really heavy when you surf.
Yeah, it sucked. And also I'd have to tie them up. They come undone sometimes. You surf?
So when you paddle and then pop up, you put your hands at your rib cage to pop up. And sometimes my hair would get underneath it and then I'd just eat crap.
No, don't scare me.
But you can't do it. Your bladder would eventually explode and poison you.
Um, yes. But if it's an extreme emergency, before you go on stage, every person is going to the bathroom as much as possible to get it out.
But, dude, there have been some close calls with not just peeing. Oh, God. Because when you go on tour, you have to be pretty much dead to not get on stage. All of us have gotten on stage after suffering food poisoning. Yeah. where it's like, ah.
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