I mean I've signed babies diapers
puppies I've signed everything under the
Sun but the weirdest one we were
somewhere in Spain the guy we we
couldn't speak he gestured for me to
take his pen I thought turns out he
handed me a
scalpel and he wanted me to to
carve at least Slayer into him or My
Autograph I don't know but uh I just
said dude I'll sign whatever you got but
I'm not going to cut you oh man
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what uh was the thing that that uh
triggered you going towards metal I was
kind of a latecomer to metal because I
had two older sisters and the community
I lived in was far from a metal
Community um so I was at the mercy of
kind of what my sisters listen to cuz I
didn't like what was popular in my
community it was very very gang like you
know certainly nothing that we want to
listen to and it was through radio
believe it or not the local stations in
La they would play mild metal I heard uh
either breaking the law or living after
midnight you know the pop songs from the
from the priest record and then then I
knew I liked it I liked the singer I
like the two guitar parts about it then
basically what I envisioned my band to
be like MH I found you guys shortly
after that you know I found Maiden
shortly after that and it was just
explosion of information that I didn't
know existed did you run to the stores
constantly and looking for new bands why
yeah whether I heard I bought I bought
your record without hearing a note yeah
I'm like and and I roll the dice like
that sometimes I did the julus that went
to Destiny based on that I looked at the
back of the cover I saw the two guitars
the drums B the vocalist like it's got
to be heavy it's got to be heavy so I
took it home and put it on I like King
my friend when was the first time that
you recall
being uh given the chance to hear what
we do see that goes way back and um it
was in 1984 when mer fate first set foot
in the US uh we were in Portland I think
that was first time we did an install
together and we played a show together
at the staring nights I think it was
when I met King and Merciful Fate I was
a giant fan because even though we were
both early in our careers they were a
couple years ahead of me and I was a big
fan it was a time when when the local
record stores were HIIT you know yeah
you know we bought vinyl yeah I love
that I I think I started with the EP I
can't remember what the EP was called
but cuz it didn't have a name actually
and everybody gave different names so
you yeah I got that of course Melissa
and I try not to put in Melissa very
often because then it just lives in my
player for about a week MH um just can't
take it out you know um very nice
compliment and and it was big memories
for me
yeah man wow that's awesome what what
was your first instrument actually what
was the first thing you you played my
dad had guitars in the house oh okay my
first instrument it's a piece of wood
with two Nails in and an elastic band
and and believe it or not I recorded it
of course it sounded like nothing but it
was still like the first the first time
I recorded anything you know so I have
to ask what was your first concert you
went to concert yeah that I took myself
to yeah to to nail down the first won
man I'd have to go back I got all my
tickets from back then still I would
have to look at the date and find out
you know I saw do solo I saw do on the
first sent with Black Sabbath oh yeah um
so yeah lots of stuff I didn't see
priest till after which is important to
me because that was a big big band for
me I didn't see priest until uh point of
entry that's when I got to go see uh
priest for the first time and Iron
Maiden open for him and I didn't know
anything about iron M at that point that
was probably one of my greatest moments
at that time in my life life because
just to get introduced to Iron Maiden in
a live setting with Paul Dio yeah yeah I
saw that and then have priest come on
too that was that was huge for me man I
I got a chance to see uh Brian Johnson
in Jordy three times you know before he
went in with ACDC and that's a story
yeah that's that's cool UFO at no heavy
ping had that was just about to come out
it wasn't out yet the first show I did
in Europe the very first show heavy
sounds Festival direct support for you
UFO oh my God that's a lot to bite off
and Sho yeah yeah yeah I was scared to
death I'm like I got to play in front of
UFO wow it's really odd that that all
these years we haven't toured this is
the first time yeah it is absolutely
weird it's justes it's truly different
circles you know I mean there's no
reason we just ran in different circles
you know absolutely absolutely it's nice
to hear and feel and all this stuff cuz
it's it's good we come from the same
stuff you know the same uh in here you
know it's uh and we love what we do you
know and we love to see fans have a good
time you know like what we do you know
it's it's big wheel we have to all push
together otherwise it's not going to
spin you know so it it's uh it's good
time