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 I remember we played in London one time, and my guitar player, Mark, had gotten food poisoning, had been up all night long puking and coming out the other way. And he just stood in one place. I couldn't really do my job because I was so worried he was going to fall over. He was gray, and I was just trying to... Stay near him so he could hold him up.
But we've definitely had trash cans backstage before because if it's going to go, it's going to go.
The last time we canceled because of illness was because of me. I had sushi with a friend of mine in L.A., and then we went to Vegas. for the next show at House of Blues. And I woke up and I walked off the bus. I was feeling great. And then all of a sudden I wasn't feeling great. And then all of a sudden it all started coming out everywhere. And eventually it would not stop.
So we got a doctor to come to House of Blues and give me a shot to stop the vomiting.
And then I got in my bunk and I just, I couldn't barely move. And I remember my tour manager opening the bunk and he's, do we need to cancel? And I'm like, yes, I can't move. You could wheel me out and lay me on the stage. I could just lay there and vomit and shit myself. It wouldn't be much of a shit. It's performance art, people. Exactly.
We came back, I can't remember how many months later, and made that show up. But if people couldn't make it up, obviously they're going to get a refund.
It's also when you cancel a show, fans get so mad.
Yeah, absolutely. And I understand that. That's why we don't cancel unless something is severely wrong. But for us, it's not good either. Because when you cancel a show, we still have to pay our crew. We've already paid the bus.
We paid for everything. And that's built into the budget. So you don't make money on a tour until a lot of times the last third of the tour. I see. Because everything else is catching up with the initial output.
Oh yeah. So we reserve that in our bank account to start a tour. But if you cancel shows, you lose money. And I love playing music and I love playing for the fans, but it's also my job. I'm not out here to lose money. So when people cancel shows, I don't think fans understand this. Sometimes they're like, he just didn't want to come here or something. Yeah, diva. No, dude.
This is how we make money.
Yeah, exactly. A lot of my guys have kids, and the band dudes are the last people to get paid. Sure, of course. Always the last.
Dude, I have learned the hard way. I don't really do sushi. I don't eat spicy Indian food anymore. At all or just before shows? Okay, yeah. My tolerance for spice has gone down.
No, mine has sadly gone down. I can't do it the way I used to.
No, I don't do raw oysters on tour. I won't do mussels. One wrong muscle to quote Anthony Bourdain. And you're shitting like a mink. Whatever that means.
We're very self-critical, and there are mistakes that happen during shows, but our band is so tight. We're one of the tightest bands out there. So for us, a mistake that will really bother one of us is something completely unnoticeable to the average listener. So it's got to be a huge train wreck. And I think one time in the last 10 years, we had a total train wreck on a song.
And I'm like, you just laugh. You laugh at yourself.
That's hilarious. We're humans and we don't play to a click. We are a live rock band. And as such, mistakes happen, but not often. No Milli Vanilli moment where you're going to... No, we don't run tracks except for like during the intro, there's an intro or whatever. There's no vocal tracks, no guitar tracks, none of that crap.
I haven't seen the live show, but I assume... Yes, we started doing that a few years ago.
It was... I love it. It's cool, right? It's very cool, but it was very scary at first. And the first time we did it was in 2021, I believe. It was the first tour we did coming out of COVID. And we started it in Austin, Texas. There's a venue at a racetrack, a Formula One racetrack out there. And it was in July or August in Austin. And we had a pre-production day where we ran the whole set.
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