John Bush Interview - Anthrax, Armored Saint, & Category 7 [7:58-13:00]

We'll see obviously for now there's only the three shows. So a lot of people saying, well, I'm gonna chance to see this. I'd like to see the film of it. I mean, everything is, let's face it, everybody's filming everything anyways all the time. Of course, it's not professionally done. Although some people's iPhones and it just look like they look amazing. So yeah, I don't know, I haven't thought about it quite yet. As far as doing a proper filming and recording of it, it's not on my mind yet. Maybe I just kind of want to get a couple of songs, a couple of shows out from under me a little bit. And then we'll see. I'm sure I'm going to do more. I just don't know what yet and when. All right. Well, we'll plant the seed for now. It'll be there. You get some shows under your belt. You feel better about it. And then who knows? Maybe a live show will happen. I'll record it. Yeah, that's that's a great idea. I'm sure. And your backup band is going to be Category 7, right? For joining me. Yeah, with the exception to Joey Vera playing bass because that Jack Gibson had a schedule conflict. But yes, it made sense. We were kind of talking one day about it. Discussing like playing some songs with some of the anthrax songs that I've done to kind of expand a set for Category 7 because we only have the one record, of course. So sometimes when you're playing a headline show, you need material. And then all of a sudden, it's kind of dawn on me. Like, well, wait a minute here. This is something that could be even bigger than that. So a proposing idea to the guys. And like I said, if I was starting up band from scratch to go out and play these albums from anthrax that I made, I would use those guys because they're just incredible players. And Jason Bittener played in anthrax for a brief time. I'm filling up for Charlie at one point. He's certainly more than capable as a drummer. We'll play Charlie stuff. It's not easy, of course, as we all know. But I think Jason will do amazing and Phil Demol and Microland are incredible guitar players. I have the utmost faith in them that they'll make it sound amazing. So it kind of just made the most sense really to do it. We're going to do a little brief set of C7 and then we'll come back out and play these anthrax tunes. It's going to be a lot of work. It's a little daunting, but, you know, helping myself mentally and physically forward. All right. I'll make some. Yeah. That's that's what I heard. You're you're essentially opening for yourself. And I was like, wow, man, double duty. I know. Wow, there's not two full headlines. That's because that's what being sanity. But yeah, I look at my peers, you know, people like Halford and many others who are going out playing 20 songs a night. So I figured I gotta do it, you know, something I could do. It's three shows. I can do it. So it would be challenging, but it'll be fun at the same time. So yeah, it's a little unusual kind of playing and then coming back. But I think it'll be kind of different as well. So maybe I'll be alluring. Right. Well, I mean, I know as a as a fan of your music, getting to see you perform twice in one night, I mean, I think that's fantastic. And that doesn't happen a lot. So it'll be extra special for all the John Bush fans out there. Yeah. Well, I'm sticking my neck out there and going for it. Good for you, man. So the last time you were in anthrax, it was kind of a brief time in 2000. I think eight to 2010 came back. You did some live shows and stuff. Are you talking about why you chose not to stay with the band at that time? I don't think it was ever something permanent at that time. I think they had some days that they had booked. And I think that at that time, I'm not mistaken. It was the singer that had for a brief period of time that was in the band that never panned out. And so he was, I don't know, they they parted ways. I don't know exactly the details, but they needed someone to come help play the net worth show, which was in London. I mean, outside of London, excuse me, in England. And there was several shows in Australia. The sound waves fell festival at that time. And then I did the loud park show in Japan. So I think it was just it was always the plan of coming in to kind of get those shows, shows completed and fulfilled. And there was really no talk about going forward from that point. So I don't really remember the details because now it's talking like almost 15 years ago, which is insane. But I do remember those are great shows playing the Appleworth where you know, London, Zeppelin's last show was pretty awesome. And there were big shows in Australia as well as the loud park show in Tokyo was amazing. The memories of playing shows through the years when in my time with anthrax was always awesome. We had so many amazing gigs and always cherish those memories. Was that roughly the last time that you played that many anthrax songs? I mean, I'm assuming you