I remember when I bought White Noise, I spent a lot of my first listens trying to decide if Joey could have sung them. I was angry over the Joey firing, but still bought the album on the strength of Only and the fact that I loved the band.
I think Joey has proven on the reunion albums that he was capable to handle the change. I loved John 5's honesty and take on the change. He conveyed my feelings exactly. Different, not necessarily better, but still good - I prefer the original. And like him, when I reach for some Anthrax, I generally reach for Joey material. But I still love Bush (you know what I mean, get your mind out of the gutter).
Yeah the John 5 clip was quite interesting. I found it interesting that it made the final edit. And then to hear Scott talk about the Black Lodge video and single, you can feel the air come out.
But to back up....my first thought when I heard the let Joey go was....why? They seemed to have finally achieved major success, increasing their notoriety with every passing album. They finally were co headlining major tours. I really can't believe they were willing to give that up.
But to their credit, they wanted the change. They wanted to move the band/music in a different direction. John thought his songs needed a different kind of voice. To me, it was career suicide, but you have to respect that.
When I heard it was John Bush joining, I was psyched on one hand, but extremely disappointed on the other because that basically meant the end of Armored Saint, who also just had put out their best album, though real success proved to be more fleeting for them.
In 1991, I saw Armored Saint twice and Anthrax 3 times.
I was actually lukewarm on SOWN at first. I really didn't know what to think of it. I loved Only, Hi Pro Glo, This Is Not An Exit, and Invisible right away, but the rest really took me a long time to get.
Their shows were great though. Before their actual tour started they did a thing with Headbanger's Ball where they played 3 East Coast and 3 West Coast dates I believe. I saw them at Axis in Boston. Then they came back. Rob Zombie mentions in the clip that White Zombie opened for them. I saw that show in Providence, and holy shit White Zombie was amazing. One of the 5 best opening acts I've ever seen.
Back to Scott's comments regarding Black Lodge, you can hear it in his voice. To me, this is the moment the Anthrax train stopped dead in its tracks.
Looking forward to how they address Dan Spitz leaving. They really never replaced him, with all due respect to Jon Donais.
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