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What’s John Bush been up to?
Whilst Anthrax try to make up their minds who their singer is, former vocalist John Bush has been busy recording vocals for a track on the new Long Distance Calling album.
The almost 100% (but obviously not quite) instrumental rock band have had Peter Dolving (The Haunted) and Jonas Renkse (Katatonia) feature on songs before, and have decided for their third album, they’d like Bush to feature on the track Middleville.
Long Distance Calling commented:
“From the beginning of the band we thought it’s cool to do the unexpected, especially from an instrumental band. [..] For the new one we made a list and John was on that list. We asked him and he wanted to do it, which is great because it’s a very strong song. We don’t like to go the easy way and ask the most obvious singers. Nobody is expecting John to appear on our album, but he’s such a great singer that the result speaks for.”
Dose of Metal commented:
“Of course people are expecting it. You just told us sillys.
John Bush doesn't want Anthrax
One of the former Anthrax singers (#7 and #9) John Bush recently did an interview for the Mars Attacks podcast, talking about why he didn’t want to re-join Anthrax on a permanent basis, after playing a couple of concerts with them last and early this year.
“The main factor was that I felt like it wasn’t really time for me to resume my lead singer role in Anthrax on a permanent basis. I kind of felt like not enough time had elapsed. You’ve gotta remember that the last Anthrax record was ‘We’ve Come For You All’, of original material, so if I would have [gone] back in and re-recorded [the vocal tracks on the unreleased Anthrax album ‘Worship Music’, which was completed with lead singer Dan Nelson] and resumed my position in the band, there would have been nothing in between that, and I just didn’t think that was… It didn’t feel right.”
On not joining Metallica in the early 1980’s, despite being asked to, Bush had the following to say;
“[Joining Metallica] just wasn’t my fate, it wasn’t my destiny. It would have changed metal in the most gigantic of ways and I wasn’t meant to do that. Of course I was always flattered that those guys had an interest in me way back. You’ve gotta remember — this was, like, around [the time of the release of Metallica’s] ‘Kill ‘Em All’ [1983]. It was way back early in the stages of their career and Armored Saint. And Armored Saint was doing well; we were starting to escalate in our popularity. So I didn’t wanna just go join some other band. I was , like, ‘Hey, this is my band, these are my friends. You guys are great, but I’m cool here.’ So it wasn’t my destiny and I can’t even imagine what life would have been like; who knows what would have happened? I would say it would have much more of a bigger mistake to not join Anthrax.”
Read more excerpts of the interview or listen to the whole podcast here.
