Good morning Radicals. Hope you’re all well and safe. Let’s dig in to today’s DIRT…
On a Facebook Live chat this week, Godsmack frontman Sully Erna talked about how he’s dealing with the COVID -19 pandemic. He said: “I have not, since day one, with this thing, been one of the people that are flipping out about this. At the same time, I’m following the rules, I’m being responsible, because I know there’s other people that are way more in jeopardy than I am.”
Erna said that he wouldn’t be surprised if he already had it. He recalled a trip he took in mid-February to L.A. with his daughter and friends. He felt sick a couple of days after getting back home and said: “I got this really weird flu. And I remember it feeling foreign. It was, like, ‘Ah, is this the flu or is it allergies?’”
He had all the symptoms, except for the shortness of breath. And said, “I probably have a much bigger lung capacity than a lot of people. And so, it makes me think, with all the symptoms, that maybe I caught an early dose of it.”
Except for working out at the Godsmack headquarters, a few miles from his home…Erna, who lives in New Hampshire, says that he has been obeying Governor Chris Sununu‘s stay-at-home emergency order – which went into effect late last month.
Vinnie Paul’s longtime girlfriend, Chelsey Yeager announced that a cookbook of recipes from the late Pantera and Hellyeah drummer will be released.
In an interview with Metal Pulp And Paper, she said, “Vinnie’s cookbook that he titled Drumming Up An Appetite With Vinnie Paul is in the works. There are over 120 recipes that are saved and pictures as well.”
In an interview 2 years before his death Vinnie Paul had said, “A lot of people think cooking is throwing something in the microwave. It’s really not. There’s a passion to it. It’s like playing music. If you love doing it, you really put everything you’ve got into it and want it to be special, and that’s what we do.”
Vinnie Paul died in June 2018 at his home in Las Vegas of dilated cardiomyopathy — an enlarged heart — as well as severe coronary artery disease, a heart condition.
GUNS N’ ROSES Bassist DUFF MCKAGAN: ‘It’s Really F**king Important To Stay At Home’ https://t.co/VORD45ya0i pic.twitter.com/3CREWm25sP
— BLABBERMOUTH.NET (@BLABBERMOUTHNET) April 9, 2020
In a podcast interview, Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses was loud and clear about how he and his family are coping with quarantine life during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said: “We’re looking at it very serious. I have two kids and a wife. We live in Seattle, so that was the first hotspot in the U.S.”
McKagan was rehearsing in Los Angeles for the Guns N’ Roses tour when the virus hit. His family was with him, so they stayed in LA. He says – “People seem unable to grasp the gravity of what could lie ahead of us if we don’t take aggressive action immediately.”
In talking about how fast the virus spreads, he noted, “I’m not blaming it on all the people that aren’t staying home, but it’s really F***ing important to stay at home. Don’t go out. Because it’s not just you — we’re not just talking about you.”
When asked about economic concern, he said, “My most important thing right now is keeping the people that work for me employed. We have eighty-plus people on our crew that we’re terrified about right now. We have to figure out what we’re gonna do and keep them from losing their house or something like that.”
Finally, let’s wish a happy (and socially distant) birthday to Saint Asonia and Staind guitarist Mike Mushock! Stay safe out there!
