John Bush Takes Us Inside Anthrax's 1990's Era | Exclusive Interview [35:24-40:27]

the seed because I do want to one idea I have for these upcoming shows in December is to maybe have some different people come out and do, you know, a little bit of a, you know, little special guest part on a song or two. And it would be awesome if I can get Roger to go and sing on one of the songs live. Maybe at the show at the whiskey or something. We'll see. I don't know. He's probably a little busy. But hey, it's a it's a hopeful idea. And if he wants to come out and he's going to be in a couple of weeks for, yeah, the who is playing the ball, right? Yeah, it's true. Well, you know, that's the time to ask. I mean, hey, if I could plan a seed somewhere somehow, that would be awesome. That would be amazing. And then in addition to the shows that you're doing that are subtering anthrax, you've got a bunch of armored scene shows. That's correct. We are coming up with Michael Shankar. That's correct. Yeah, we're going to we're actually doing three shows. We've done a couple tours in the last couple of years now with Wasp, which was cool because Armored Saint and and Wasp did shows together back in, you know, the early 80s. Playing the Trubidor and Perkins Palace. And then we did the tour. That was the infamous Metallica Wasp Armored Saint tour in 1985. And people still talk about that tour. And so we had an opportunity to go on to some dates with with Blackie and the guys. And it was awesome. And we had a lot of fun. And we toured the country in some Canadian dates twice on two different legs. And it was great. So they're going they're in Europe. They're going back to Europe. And they're doing some dates in Britain. And we have the same agent. And he said maybe I can get you guys on these dates in in Britain. So it's only three shows. But we're like, yeah, and they're playing what's called different. It's called the Apollo now. But it's really the infamous London and Hammersmith Odin. Oh, yeah. And you know, you know, no sleep till Hammersmith's recorded there. And so we're like, he goes, you want to play Hammersmith. And we're like, hell yeah. So so we're playing Newcastle, Manchester and and London at the end of next month. So then we're doing those three shows. And then we come back like several days later. And then we start with Michael Shanker. And we're only doing maybe a third to half a Michael's tour because we're doing that. We've already committed to the dates with Wasp in England. But it's going to be cool because we're doing California up to Texas in Mexico and Arizona. And Michael Shanker is just a huge impact on us as fans. And I mean, you know, it was one of my favorite rock fans of all time. And you know, lights out of session. I mean, these are records that are just as far as the top of the chain, as far as on concern. And it's hard rock and heavy metal. And so to go out and do some shows with them, it's going to be a great, great thing. And we're playing the Sabon theater here in Beverly Hills. And the Grove in Anaheim, which I sold out already. And San Francisco and up a couple of dates in Texas. So it's going to be great. You know, it's going to be a lot of fun to watch Michael every night. And he's doing all UFOs. So yeah, so we're honored to be part of that. And we'll hold our own. And we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Delirious Nomad, which was our second album, which is going to be really cool because we're going to go out and do these kind of like microsets with the Shanker tour. So we're going to do like four or five songs from that record in the middle of our set, which is funny because it's a support slot. We're still going to do it along with a few hits as far as as well. Because you got to do those. But it's going to be fun. And that Delirious Nomad record, Farmer and Sain is a record that a lot of people really look fondly of. It was different, very different than March of the Saint. We kind of, we were immediately rebelled about where we were going as a band a little bit, image wise. And you know, just musically, we were just yearning to kind of still go a little further than we did on March of Saint. Don't get me wrong, March is awesome. It's a great record. A lot of classic anthems on that album. But for Delirious, we were just already feeling kind of more adventurous. So we went with it. And at the time, it probably threw the label for a little bit of a loop. They're just like, what are you guys doing? But in retrospect, looking back, it's a lot of people's favorite album. So I think, you know, at the time, it was kind of a little bit questionable about what we were trying to do. And we probably didn't even know ourselves. But when you look back on Delirious Nomad, there's, you know, long before Dine, nervous man, aftermath, and over the edge. And these are really classic armen saying songs. So so we're going to even dig deeper than that and pull out songs like the laugh and conquer, which we haven't played since, you know, the 80s or if ever. So it's going to be fun. Amazing. Yeah. Was that the the record that you toured with Wasp and? No, that was March of the same. Yeah, it was March of the same. Delirious Nomad came out in 85 and it was weird. We didn't really do much touring on that album, which is not a good idea, obviously. But there was a lot of changes