Tim Lambesis As I Lay Dyingin vuoden 2018 paluusta: ”Pakotin neliönmuotoisen tapin pyöreään reikään jotta nuo tyypit saatiin takaisin yhteen”

Yhdysvaltalainen metalcoren lippulaivoihin lukeutuva As I Lay Dying teki paluun parrasvaloihin vuonna 2018, mutta bändin rivit alkoivat hyvin pian paluun jälkeen repeilemään ja lopulta kitaristi Nick Hipa, rumpali Jordan Mancino sekä basisti/laulaja Josh Gilbert päätyivät lopulta jättämään yhtyeen. Nyt bändin laulaja Tim Lambesis on tuoreessa The Jasta Show -podcastin jaksossa kertonut varsin avoimesti kuinka Hipa ja Mancino päätyivät jättämään lopulta yhtyeen ja millainen henki bändissä oli tuohon aikaan, kun yhtye teki paluun takaisin yhteen. Lambesis kertoi Nick Hipan lähdöstä yhtyeestä seuraavaa:

“I would never close a door on anything permanently, because I think like concepts like ‘always’ and ‘never’ are very immature concepts. But I can just speak matter of factly that I think that sometimes when you’ve created enough hurt, so the very thought of me or sight of me, to some people, is a traumatic trigger and brings a high, high level of emotion to the surface. And I could say specifically as it relates to Nick — I don’t know where he’s at now in his life, but I do know that in our interactions, there was just constantly a heightened level of emotion.

I mean, I could be trying to do the simplest thing in the world, like, ‘Hey, I’m sending these files around to the guys in the band, ’cause I rearranged the song. I think this arrangement might be the better arrangement.’ And it’s, like, instead of advocating for the song, all of a sudden now we’re talking about, ‘Well, does Tim have the right to be doing whatever he wants with the song? And is he trying to call the shots again?’ I’m not saying that he was even giving me a hard time, but I’m just saying as an example, all of a sudden this weird overthinking comes into everything, ’cause it’s, like, ‘Does this person have nefarious intentions in every single thing that he does?’

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And then I still have shortcomings as a human being. So then sometimes, he’s looking at me, like, ‘See, dude, you still screw up. You’re frustrating me.’ I’m not pointing the finger. I’m just saying the level of heightened emotions there just made an environment to where even our band therapist was, like, ‘This is for the best, collectively.’ And that’s when everybody else was still in the band. And he wasn’t choosing sides; he just was saying, ‘Guys, sometimes this is just what you have to accept.’ Somebody’s creating a situation where everybody constantly feels like emotionally pushed into — whatever this person’s emotions are, everybody has to accommodate that person’s emotions.

And if that’s constantly what’s happening, maybe it’s just sometimes best if that person is not part of the equation. And it wasn’t anything personal. Now, from his side, he could feel totally differently — he could have hatred for me. I think, if anything, he probably just kind of feels like neutral, just like, ‘Ah, it’s just better for my life if I just sort of go forward and don’t have this constant trigger in my life.’ And I sympathize with that, ’cause it’s, like, man, I don’t wanna be around somebody every day of my life, trying to live in a van and a bus with them where, every time they see me, they feel terrible about themselves. That sucks.”

“I truly don’t know anything, because he just one day — this isn’t just me; this is the entirety of the whole process — he just one day… We were trying to reschedule a tour that had gotten canceled during COVID. And we reached out and said, ‘Hey, they finally wanna reschedule it for these dates. Can everybody confirm?’ And then nothing. ‘Hey, Jordan, what’s up? We’re trying to figure out what’s up. You committed to these days originally. We’re just trying to have the new ones.’ Nothing. And then months and months go by later, and his attorney reaches out and says, ‘Hey, Jordan’s asked that only communication comes through me.’ And I was just, like, ‘Okay, well, what was the fight about?’ I mean, I’m not gonna ask, at 400 dollars an hour, what the fight was about. I don’t even care at that point. So, that’s the mystery right there.”

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Jordan Mancinon lähdöstä Lambesis kertoi puolestaan seuraavaa:

“I truly don’t know anything, because he just one day — this isn’t just me; this is the entirety of the whole process — he just one day… We were trying to reschedule a tour that had gotten canceled during COVID. And we reached out and said, ‘Hey, they finally wanna reschedule it for these dates. Can everybody confirm?’ And then nothing. ‘Hey, Jordan, what’s up? We’re trying to figure out what’s up. You committed to these days originally. We’re just trying to have the new ones.’ Nothing.

And then months and months go by later, and his attorney reaches out and says, ‘Hey, Jordan‘s asked that only communication comes through me.’ And I was just, like, ‘Okay, well, what was the fight about?’ I mean, I’m not gonna ask, at 400 dollars an hour, what the fight was about. I don’t even care at that point. So, that’s the mystery right there.”

“If you worked at — I don’t know — say you owned a tire shop, and that’s it. You’re just the owner of a tire shop, not even a band, but you’ve got five people working at the tire shop and one dude just doesn’t show up to work on Monday. You call him, the next Monday comes around, he doesn’t show up to work. Sixteen Mondays go by and this dude doesn’t show up for work. So it’s, like, at that point, you’re not the jerk for saying, ‘Hey, dude, we’ve gotta move on without you.’ I mean, you’re just kind of doing what you’ve gotta do at that point.”

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