Mike just destroyed on the record. He was perfect. But at the time, our tour manager brought up Brooks' name as well. But at the time he was also busy with Bad Religion and it was also … people were going to look at it differently because he was a punk drummer at this point. The band also feels strongly about bringing in Arin Ilejay in the middle of their touring and working him into the band, but felt that they needed something different to be the band they wanted to be.
I understand why we're going to do that. He adds, "It just got to the point where after Mayhem Festival last year, we had just decided to fire on all cylinders the way we want to, we needed to make a change. And we all had our little talk. We said, 'Listen, we can ride this thing out the way it is right now and we'll be fine or we can shake the nest a little bit and we want to fire on all cylinders again.
We want to be the baddest band on the planet. We want to just dominate onstage. And I came up with the idea that I really want to talk to Brooks and see if there's any chance and see where he's at in his life right now. The vocalist added that they did not hold auditions for the drum spot, but rather it was all initiated with whether or not Wackerman would be interested.
And one of the things was let's give Brooks a call and see what he's doing. It wasn't like we were going to start trying guys out and we were serious about this change. It was like if Brooks is willing to do this, that's what we want to do. So it wasn't like we were gonna just start looking for drummers.
Shadows says that Avenged wasn't trying to poach Wackerman and upon talking with the drummer, they learned he was up for a different challenge. Let's go have some rehearsals. Can we write together? Let's write together. Let's throw some riffs at him and see what would you play on this and can you give us 10 different drum beats around this riff?
Never heard of him? Which was the coolest thing a member of Bad4Good had managed… until now! So when Josh was away from Vandals duty at the turn of the Millennium who should step into his shows?
Our very own Brooks of course! No pressure then! He contributed to the last six Bad Religion releases. Unfortunately, due to an acute fear of flying after his infamous near death experience in a plane crash five years previously, Blink drummer Travis Barker was unable to make his way across the globe to make the shows.
Which stuck with him throughout the tour. Remember when Korn used to have most of their band shrouded behind a curtain?
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