John Bush Takes Us Inside Anthrax's 1990's Era | Exclusive Interview [45:32-50:36]

I mean, he really just became this incredible singer and he really was a powerful frontman and singer. So, you know, for me, it just, it was, it was always meant to be James to be the voice in Metallica. But it came full circle where you got up on stage with him to play four horsemen, right? I did. Yes, I did. That was another thing that I did do. And it was really, really cool. We went, we played the Phil Maurens after Cisco and, and Armored Stain actually opened that show. It was like four shows they did. It was the anniversary. It was the 30th anniversary shows. And so, they had a lot of various people come and, and play with them of, you know, from Kid Rock to King Diamonds who, you know, Ozzie to Halford to, uh, uh, Lou Reed and Marianne Faithful. I mean, everybody was part of their, their, their history up until that point came out in different times. And that, there was four shows and we opened the one. And then, then I came back out and, and they, they told the story of like the Asus guy and he said no. And, you know, here he is John and, but this is what it would sound like if he would have joined and we played the four horsemen. And it was, you know, obviously a very stellar moment in my life. And it was, it was killer. It was, you know, I treasure that night and, um, you know, I'm honored to, to be there, to be a guy that, you know, I have the chance of being asked to be in that band. And, um, you know, it just was not my fate, but what are you going to do? Another amazing fact about you is you were in the Huey Lewis video, right? I was in the heart of rock and roll, which was a lot of fun. That was a video that, uh, Huey Lewis was on the same label, Christmas records. And, and they were putting out the record sports, or they had put it out. And I was going to be the next single. And we had just made March of the same. And we were waiting for it to come out. And, um, in our record, uh, in our guy, Ron Faire was, he was a great guy. And, and he was just a go getter farmer saying, and many of the ways. And so he, they were, they had this person in the, one of the scenes in the video where he comes out of the, uh, the limo. And he, you know, he looks back. And then the girl follows him and kind of shakes her butt and, and, and that's me in the video. And, um, it was cool to be part of that because, uh, Huey Lewis was red hot at that time. Yeah, it was, it was a great, they made a huge, huge video. It was a great video. You know, uh, he had a few hits on that, on that record, sports album. And, um, and, you know, the guys were super cool. And so I shot the video. And I wore the, the, the, the garb that I wore on stage at that time and had way too much makeup. I guess that's the way they wanted me to look for the video. So in looking back, it was a little silly, uh, for me, but, you know, I went with it because I was like, you know, whatever I was, I was 20 years old and in this video and our record was coming out. And, um, so it's funny. People, you can look back on and have a chocolate. I always do. You know, we, we, at that time, I was saying was wearing this, we thought that the imaging was cool because, uh, we were big fans of like Cooper and Kiss and and Judas Prius and, and you name it. So these bands that had these big images, we thought it was great. And so we had this name, Armored Sain, and we figured why not just kind of, uh, kind of embellish the name with this look. And so we, we got costumes from various sources and made things from telephone pole, um, stuff that we took down that, you know, was we used for reflection and made Joey made his breastplate with that. And I got stuff that was from Western costume, which is a big, um, uh, place that provides stuff for the studios, uh, for, for movies. Um, I think my breastplate was from the Beast Master movie and, um, historic. Yeah, I know, it's funny. So like we were, we were into the image thing at that point because we thought it was cool. And it was kind of like I said, emphasizing the, the whole vibe of the band. Um, it, it took a couple years and finally we were kind of going, yeah, we're kind of getting a little older this, this, this image thing. We don't want it to be the, you know, the primary source of what people think of us when they think musically. So we, we kind of fought it a little bit as time went on and, and then we kind of slowly tapered off to look a little bit. But, um, you know, it, it was part of Armored Sains, look for a while. And, um, and, um, I'm not embarrassed by it, you know, it's, um, it was just, it was just another aspect of our career. But, yeah, it's funny. I was, uh, talking to a mutual friend of ours recently and he had, uh, he, he was mentioning that at one point you had a, he, maybe it was like a glass case with an armor in it and it said breaking. Yeah, yeah. A friend of mine, he, he, he took the white leather vest that I had and, um, and he, he framed it and it was pretty cool and, and then he had it hanging in his house where I live for, for a period of time. And, um, nobody broke it, you know, but, uh, now it's actually at the metal blade museum in Vegas. So, it's cool. Yeah, and it's, it's, you know, my white leather vest. I remember my parents bought me,