Lamb of Godin Randy Blythen mukaan bändin ei tarvitse koskaan hajota

Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Lamb of Godin laulaja Randy Blythe ei juuri eläkkeelle haikaile. Blythe antoi hetki sitten haastattelun Full Metal Jackielle tulevasta kirjastaan ”Just Beyond The Light: Making Peace With The Wars Inside Our Head”.

Haastattelussa Blytheltä kysyttiin kirjojen kirjoittamisen ja albumin säveltämisen eroista. Laulaja vastasi seuraavaa:

“They don’t really compare. Writing books is, at least in my case, much, much harder and so far, much less financially lucrative than being in a band. At least being in my band, I’m a glorified traveling black T shirt salesman with Lamb of God. We get paid to travel, not to make music, really. But that’s not really the case with writers most of the time.

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So with me, my first true love wasn’t music, it was reading. When I was a little kid our television exploded during a lightning storm, a power surge and a lightning storm. And my dad decided he want my brother, he wanted my brothers and I to experience childhood without TV for a little bit. And we groaned about that. But I’m very grateful in retrospect for his decision because without TV, as a young child, I fell deeply, deeply in love with books and always have been.

I used to have a drinking problem. Now I have a book problem. I have way too many books. I’ve always loved them. I love what they do. I love how they are in a way, they’re time travel because I can read something by Shakespeare 500 years ago or Marcus Aurelius from 2000 years ago and I’m right there with that person. It’s really time travel achieved.

So it’s something I’ve always wanted to do and it’s something that I can do till the day I die. Lamb Of God never has to break up. I don’t think we ever will. We’ve talked about it. We don’t ever have to break breakup officially. But I don’t know if at like 85 I’m going to be capable of running around onstage and whipping up mosh pits. I just don’t. It’s a very energetic performance you put on. I can’t see it. Nobody wants to see 85.”

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