mrthrax
riffer madness
When Joey was fired back in 1992, I read several interviews with Scott and Charlie where they stated that one of reasons of his firing was the fact he'd never involved in writing process. I don't know whether he didn't want to or Scott and Charlie didn't want to. Anyway, when Joey released his first solo album, Charlie said something like "I listened to it and it sounds like very, very bad Anthrax". Frankly, it's strange to me Charlie, Scott and Frank would let him wrote anything if they thought his musical ideas suck. I'd guess he just arranged some vocal lines at the most. If Joey was good in writing music, I don't think he'd be the last one on the list before WM came out... They needed a singer who can sing and write music. Joey likely met only one condition (while Bush and apparently Nelson as well met both). In interviews, when it comes to the question "Did Joey involve in writing process?", it's naturally better to say "He did" and pretend that he's actually the right guy for the band. On the other hand, most people don't give a shit who wrote lyrics or music. Anthrax got the new album and that's it.
If u ever get the chance to read Scott's book he pretty much apologises for what they did to joey,Scott had a lot of demons and grunge came along,anthrax def wanted to change there sound,they were indeed quite nasty to joey back then but the book takes a lot of that back
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