John Bush Interview - Anthrax, Armored Saint, & Category 7 [3:11-7:56]

Yeah. What about any possibility for doing some shows in 2026 if this goes well? Well, it's going to be a busy year because Armored Seine actually has a record coming out. Sometime in March, April, really, the first album since 2020 when the COVID situation happened. So that kind of puts thanks very much. Punching the sky. It's great record. Isn't it? It kind of pushed us back a little bit with touring, but we actually did a lot of touring with the last couple of years with Wasp and Queen Drionk and so we made up for it. But we're excited about this new record. Sounds killer. There's some great material. It sounds very saint, but you know, kind of fuller thinking at the same time. And we're real proud of the songwriting ability on it. So we're going to definitely do a lot of shows in conjunction with that. But if I get squeezed out of this somehow, some way with it working and I don't know, we'll see. It's going to be it's going to be all challenging. There's a lot of my play. I can better be ready. Yeah, right. So John, I know you're doing some shows out with Michael Schenker, with Armored Seine. And I heard you're going to be doing a mini set from Delirious Nomad. Celebrating its 40th anniversary. Yeah, we're excited about that. Delirious is 40 years old now. This year, 1985 is when it came out, which is terrifying. Yeah, well, can you do a father time marches on? But yeah, it's cool. It's a great record. It's one of those records that I think as time goes on, more and more people feel like that's one of their favorite albums of others. And it was it was a record that at the time probably made a lot of record company people scratch their head and go, what is this? This is not what March to the St. Louis. This is very different. And probably a little too different at the time in retrospect. But the songs hold up. There's some really great tunes there. Ones that are going to be fun to play live ones. We haven't played if not ever. Certainly not in years. So we've been working on that. I'm trying to remember some lyrics and conjunction with those songs. Although they're pretty good. They're pretty there. So it's going to be fun. And I'm going to do like a couple tunes. And then we'll do a little micro set. And we'll finish it off with a couple hits. And it's going to be fun. And Tony was Shanker, you know, he's legendary. Incredible guitar player. And one of our big influences through the years. And you know, I was one of my favorite bands of all time. Going back to you know, the lights out obsession records. I was like later on, actually. They hadn't been phenomenal. But yeah, it's a great band incredible songs and probably underrated in my opinion. So yeah, very much so. But yeah, you're you're right about this. I mean, this was out of print for such a long time. And it wasn't until at least rock candy records did the reissue on it that I could get a copy of it. But I've seen I've been hearing from a lot of people through my music channel. How much they like that album. Whereas I know back in the day, it was sort of the oddity that was in there. Yeah, great album. Yeah, I mean, March of the same was we kind of started the start of the flow of armored saint being exposed to the rock and roll having metal world. And then we took a immediate left turn with Delirious although the funny thing is that there were some old songs that run Delirious. So we combined them with old songs in the new material, like you're never alone was one of our first songs that we ever wrote. And the laugh was like one of our first demos that we ever did. So that coupledly songs like Aftermath and for the sake of heaviness, which I actually, that song was kind of an older one too. In the whole, that was a more recent one at the time, of course, in 1985, long before I died nervous man. You know, these are some really cool tunes that they just kind of showed that at that point, we're still willing to take chances. And we weren't just going to say we're going to write every song as like an anthem don't get me wrong. I love March of the same Mad House and you know, can you deliver of course those are classic armored saint songs, but even then we were kind of itching to kind of branched out and do something different like over the edge. And I guess that aftermath and in the whole. So we were taking chances and I really commend us for doing it at the time. And I think that's why the record is in the heavy metal world is like that is really cool. Jim. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right with that. Something that in retrospect is absolutely, you know, grown and stature over time. So that's a cool thing. Awesome. I want to, I want to jump back over to anthrax in terms of these shows that you're doing. Any chance you're going to record? One of these shows put it out? Yeah, I don't know. It's something that somebody else mentioned. I mean, I get that you hadn't thought about it yet.