Afterwards, Trent said, ‘That was fun, let’s do it every night,’ so we did that song for the next two weeks of shows. The production crew were stood at the side of the stage thinking, ‘What the fuck?!’ that I’d lost my mind and had delusions of grandeur. Up until that point I’d only played in front of humans three times in my life. So I said, ‘Do you want me to play this?’ and he quietly replied, ‘Yes.’ I knew all of his parts but never did I think I’d play them, but I started playing Eraser in front of a sold-out arena of 15,000 people. I shouted, ‘Let’s go, buddy’ and it was down to about 10 seconds. The time kept ticking down and Trent was still on the ground. There was a digital clock on the side of the stage counting down to when the next song starts. As I was cleaning up, Trent was lying on the ground with the wind knocked out of him. The crowd couldn’t see through it, so when it came down it gave a chance for us techs to clear up the disaster that was the stage, which was covered in stuff. “In the middle of the show, there was a screen that came down between the band and the audience. When I worked with the band it was full warfare – you could truly get hurt as there were broken parts from instruments and mic stands flying through the air. I went to see them with Maynard and Gene Simmons on that tour in Hollywood – how crazy is that? The show was such an assault. For a full list of dates, visit the band's official site.“I didn’t know much about Nine Inch Nails before I worked on The Downward Spiral tour. Like this interview? Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for regular updates & more of the same. Ī Perfect Circle are currently on the road promoting 'Eat The Elephant'. They grew up, they went to high school together, so that was my connection to L.A. The first people I met when I came to L.A. Not really!įinally, I wanted to go back to your appearance on the first Rage Against The Machine’ album how did that come about? Puscifer took a lot of work to kind of get on the map, and I felt like I kind of got it to the spot where it kind of was resting on its own laurels now, that I could get back to work on the other stuff.Īre there any other musical itches that you’ve got left to scratch? Well, I had to spend a lot of that time establishing the wine industry in Arizona, and also Puscifering, and also the absence of an actual music industry after 2007, pretty much. Why was the timing right to bring out ‘Eat The Elephant’ now, fourteen years after ‘Emotive’? So, when friends get together, that friendship is pretty unbreakable.ĭo you think there’ll be more APC albums in the future then? You know, when he and I put our heads together to get something done, I feel like there’s going to be some longevity to it, just because we’re friends. The band started off as a side project with Billy Howerdel did you think it would have the legs to last this long? overwhelming that the support is still there all these years later. We’ve been to a lot of places Europe, Scandinavia, the U.K., and the support has been very, very, very emotional. It’s kind of a break from the road, and then the road is the break from the cellar.ĭoes it amaze you that A Perfect Circle have been around for almost twenty years now? The count down, carry on, five, four, three, two. Hourglass smashed, a million little pieces. I mean, harvest of course is three solid months of work. As they barbecue the sentinels and eat them right in front of you. They kind of flip flop, go back and forth. Which occupies more of your time wine, or music? Then we go right back out with A Perfect Circle in the States, and then we’re back here in December. I’ve got to go back and pick the grapes, and I’ll be in the cellar for the next three months. You’re here in London for a pair of shows in Brixton what’s happening after this run? Watching the demise of our glorious country has just kind of brought all these memories back of waiting for the explosion. The new A Perfect Circle album contains the song “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” who is the Douglas Adams fan in the band? I’ve eaten my body weight in curry already. Hi Maynard, you’re here in London tonight what have you been up to whilst in the city?
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