John Bush Interview - Anthrax, Armored Saint, & Category 7 [0:00-3:09]

Hey everyone, Brandon Cider here. How are you? Thanks so much for joining me. I've got former anthrax singer John Bush joining. Thanks so much for being here. What's up Brandon? How are you, bud? I'm great, man. You've got a big announcement here that you have lined up. Three shows that you're going to do where you're going to perform all anthrax material from the four albums when you were in the band. You got LA, California on December 13th, St. Charles, Illinois on December 18th and New York City on December 20th, a show that I can actually hit up. So I'm excited about that. You must. Yeah, yeah. So how did this come about? I mean, I know you've talked about it. I've heard you talk about it in interviews for years, but now you're finally doing it. It's great. Well, that's pretty much it. I mean, I've talked enough about it, and at some point I got to, I got to go for it. So that was the philosophy. There was some free time in December, Armored Saints doing some shows in October with Michael Shanker, right? I'm doing the headbangers boat with category seven, the other album and project that I was part of in the last year. Thank you very much for that. And so it was like December seemed like it was had some free time. It's kind of a rough month because people are thinking about the holidays and winding up the year and not thinking so much about going to shows, but my agent talked to promoters and people were interested and they sounded enthusiastic. So we figured we could do it. So the December 20th show is getting close to Christmas, but I think we'll be fine. So I'm excited about this. Yeah, I think it lines up well for people who want to get a gift for their metalhead loving fan, right? You can get to one of these shows, but I was going to say, at least for somebody who works a full-time job and I travel, I visit my sister, she's in Texas, we always look for shows when we're together. And so I'm on vacation at that time because it is a holiday season. I don't know, I think you're not going to have a problem. I think there's going to be plenty of people excited to see a show at that time. Yeah, you know, it's New York City on the 20th. So people come to the city obviously to go see the tree and skate at Rockefeller Plaza and it's New York. So people come into town. People leave too and I get that. It's a little risky, but this is the time that we had it. And I'm excited to do it. It's long overdue because I've been saying it for too long and it's like, I shut it up already, man, you can always talk about that. But now I'm finally going to do it. So I'm excited. I've been working on the tunes and trying to figure out what I'm going to play and there's a lot of great songs. So it's not easy, but I'm real excited. And is this just going to focus on the four albums or will you throw any other anthrax material in there? No, it's going to be the four records that I made with the band between 93 and 2003 with San Juan Noise, Tom 442, Volume 8. And yeah, you have a good quick there. We'll cover you all. Thanks a lot. Yeah, you're awesome. So it's exciting.