I was working with Lou Reed on The Twilight Reeling Tour 95/96. My first tour with Lou. Lou fired his guitar tech/stage manager at the beginning of the tour in Dallas, Texas. I was asked if I wanted to take his spot. I said I would continue looking after Fernando Saunders, the bass player and the person who brought me on board. The first person who came to mind was Johnny to do guitars. As he was on a brief hiatus from The Slayer Camp. I had met and worked with Johnny with Slayer from South Heaven to Divine Intervention. On the road and the studio. We toured with Danzig and Sass Jordan together also. Johnny agreed, flew to San Francisco, the next show after Dallas, walked right into The Warfield Theatre and went to work. Lou was weary of people, including me, initially, but warmed up to us and treated us well as the tour progressed. And yes, Johnny had to replace a Custom Lou Reed EMG Pickup on his #1 Bolin Guitar when it died on a gig. Lou did stop doing soundchecks when he heard Johnny shredding on guitar and knew everything was dialed in. I saw more of The World with Johnny and did more gigs with him than anyone. He is like a Brother to me, as is Tom. Pissed that I forgot he lives in San Antonio these days as I was just in Houston. Thank you Rob for doing this interview.
Johnny one of the best and coolest guys in the world of metal without a doubt! Professional, Humble, friendly and always ready to laugh! Nice stories and always grateful to him and his family. Impossible to forget!!!
I met him and Tom in a bar in Dublin, just after unholy alliance with Thine eyes bleed, Children of Bodom, LOG and the mighty SLAYER 2006, blunts were lit and I do believe Kerry and Jeff were upstairs , Fibber Magees , parnell st.
I remember after waiting over 20 years to see Exodus in Australia and you guys finally toured in support of Shovel headed kill machine with The Haunted in Brisbane Australia and man you fucking destroyed that place Rob, I felt sorry for the Haunted having to follow that. I’ve seen loads of great bands since the late eighties yet that was one of the best ever. Thanks for the memories Rob
This was a great interview, I loved how y’all compared Dave Lombardo and Tom Hunting to Keith Moon. I used to tell my Pops the same thing since he was a fan of The Who. Pops would always just look at me and go “hmm.”🤔 I explained it a little more to him about how those drummers were had an insane drumming technique and that they were some of the first guys to develop that kind of drum style.
I was working with Lou Reed on The Twilight Reeling Tour 95/96. My first tour with Lou. Lou fired his guitar tech/stage manager at the beginning of the tour in Dallas, Texas. I was asked if I wanted to take his spot. I said I would continue looking after Fernando Saunders, the bass player and the person who brought me on board. The first person who came to mind was Johnny to do guitars. As he was on a brief hiatus from The Slayer Camp. I had met and worked with Johnny with Slayer from South Heaven to Divine Intervention. On the road and the studio. We toured with Danzig and Sass Jordan together also. Johnny agreed, flew to San Francisco, the next show after Dallas, walked right into The Warfield Theatre and went to work. Lou was weary of people, including me, initially, but warmed up to us and treated us well as the tour progressed. And yes, Johnny had to replace a Custom Lou Reed EMG Pickup on his #1 Bolin Guitar when it died on a gig. Lou did stop doing soundchecks when he heard Johnny shredding on guitar and knew everything was dialed in. I saw more of The World with Johnny and did more gigs with him than anyone. He is like a Brother to me, as is Tom. Pissed that I forgot he lives in San Antonio these days as I was just in Houston. Thank you Rob for doing this interview.
My country!! 🇨🇱
Bell High School's Finest
Johnny one of the best and coolest guys in the world of metal without a doubt! Professional, Humble, friendly and always ready to laugh! Nice stories and always grateful to him and his family. Impossible to forget!!!
I still got that Bloodcum record . I always described it as Slayer if they were a hardcore band. Rad
Death by a coat hangar. Bloodcum were fucking sweet.
Awesome man. Love these podcast!!
I met him and Tom in a bar in Dublin, just after unholy alliance with Thine eyes bleed, Children of Bodom, LOG and the mighty SLAYER 2006, blunts were lit and I do believe Kerry and Jeff were upstairs , Fibber Magees , parnell st.
I remember after waiting over 20 years to see Exodus in Australia and you guys finally toured in support of Shovel headed kill machine with The Haunted in Brisbane Australia and man you fucking destroyed that place Rob, I felt sorry for the Haunted having to follow that.
I’ve seen loads of great bands since the late eighties yet that was one of the best ever.
Thanks for the memories Rob
Dude. Thine Eyes Bleed were a killer band.
Great fucking show as always. Keep it up
The infamous seat-cushion incident! 8/31/88 at the Felt Forum in NYC. I was there, video of the show on youtube. \m/
…..funny L.A. beach Hotel story at the intro, amazing Podcast 🤘🏼say hy to Melody…..🥃 Salud Roberto
The Danzig/Slayer show with the riot was documented and apparently aired on TV. I have never seen it on P2P or GewgleTube though.
Really enjoyed the stories. Learning a lot - It’s like the Thrash history channel!
John is a fuckin great dude... another killer podcast, brudduh. Cheers!
Testing my doorknob!
This was a great interview, I loved how y’all compared Dave Lombardo and Tom Hunting to Keith Moon. I used to tell my Pops the same thing since he was a fan of The Who. Pops would always just look at me and go “hmm.”🤔 I explained it a little more to him about how those drummers were had an insane drumming technique and that they were some of the first guys to develop that kind of drum style.
It'd be awesome if you could have one of the members from Vio-Lence on your show. Their new EP Let The World Burn just came out and it's AMAZING. 🤘
Is that Billy Milano.,(?),.`;;'.,
$hileeeeno!