John Bush Interview - Anthrax, Armored Saint, & Category 7 [18:01-23:06]

I would be curious to have a parenting. But I think Sound Away knows of course the record a lot of people can connect with mostly because it was the first one that I made with the band. So I think maybe that was because it was all new at that time. And it's certainly a very solid album and it kind of changed a little bit to the sound of the band. Obviously, Volculate was a big change. And it was the 90s and it came out 93. So there was this whole new generation and a whole new decade. And so it was very exciting time at that moment. But I'm really fond of Ball. I think Volume A is a kind of a record that's under the radar a little bit and doesn't get enough accolades. We've come for you all was a cool record because it kind of resourced the band a little bit, especially in Europe because it was on nuclear blast and they did a great job there. So they're all cool in their own right. And I think it's I think whatever you dig, you know, I'm happy about it. I'm just trying to figure out what songs to play. People are pulling on the line and I'm going wow, a lot of people like that song, which is really surprising sometimes. So it's cool. I dig that kind of stuff. Yeah, well, we all hear things differently and it's cool to see why somebody likes this one over here. I mean, as you mentioned, he said, well, maybe I don't like that one as much, but somebody else thinks it's the best song you did, right? You know, you never know with that stuff, but it's always fun to to find that out and, you know, get a chance to potentially play those songs, make those people happy. Right. For me, you know, I know maybe what went into the writing of it and to the process of recording it and who knows? Maybe there was a little bit of difficulty with that. And so maybe I associate with that records are done. It's done. You know, I kind of don't think twice about that kind of stuff. But I never want to say this record is better than that record. To me, they're all just different. And that's that's the way they should be. Because because really, it doesn't really matter what I think it's really with the public things. At that point, I'm just one part of the public. So I let the public kind of make those decisions and kind of battle over it, which is always kind of comical and funny. But it's I mean, I just want them to like them all. Actually, that's all I care about. Well, I did, I did always appreciate that the four records were somewhat different from one to another. So each one had their unique character and elements with in it. And that, you know, I think, you know, is what makes them stand up. They're not, you know, none of them were clones of sound of white noise. That was a big album. It was a successful thing. It was a turning page, but you guys kept going out and doing something new and pushing the boundaries, which is always very cool. Absolutely. And anthrax does that. You know, anthrax is a band even before I was in the band was always wanting to take chances about doing things. I mean, they did on the man, you know, and it was the way ahead of everybody else. And that was risky, you know, because they were this metal band. A lot of people might have been like, why? What is this? But everyone loved it. But then they did bring the noise. And now they were just always wanting to take chances when I was in the band and when I was not in the band. So I really commend them for doing that, especially in the world of metal or sometimes it's, I say this and I say with the utmost positivity, but sometimes a metal community can be a little rigid. You know, it's like, you got to stay within these boundaries. And if you go out too far, exactly. And it's like, look, man, you get some music. And you got to take chances. So I'm just doing something where you truly feel it's kind of insincere or not really for the right motive behind it. If you believe in something, you should be able to do it. Even if it's a little bit outside the box. And that's the way I see it. I certainly want to make music that way because I love all kinds of music. So I don't, I don't want to be pigeonholed too much. It's metal. It's hard rock. It's always going to be rounded in that. And you know, it's not like I always make the joke. It's not like it's going to come out with like this, you know, new school countries slash trip off coffee house. That's a metal record. You guys should know it. Love it. Right. Right. Yeah. I think if it's got John Bush's name on it, we know what to expect to a degree. At least on the bluesy hard rock, having a metal singer that at hard. So that's really that's what you're going to that's going to be the roots of it for sure. Well, and you guys took chances on sound of white noise with the song Black Lodge on there. I mean, they'd never done a song that was like that. And yet that connected with a lot of people. That was a very successful single off of that album. Right. Yeah. What's going to connect. Yeah, I love Black Lodge. It was killer. It was it was Angela Bollett and Mente. We did all the instrumentation on it. And that was really outside the box at that time. The twin peak movies and TV show was a TV show at that point. It was really cool and very just strange and different for sure.