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In a follow-up to Friday's Rock Report regarding the bad blood between the former members of Pantera, vocalist Phil Anselmo was recently interviewed by
AbsolutMetal.com and here's an excerpt of the interview.
Sam: I know everybody has been asking you about Down and everything and you're probably sick of it, but I was just wondering if the acoustic album and the DVD are ever coming out?
Phil: "As long as we're entrapped with Elektra records, which we seem to be, I'm not doing another
fucking thing for Elektra records unless they...they'd have to promise me...allot of money, real
fuckin' quick, and a lot of promotion. And their gonna have to do better than promises, I want it
fuckin' so to the
fuckin' T, contracted to where they don't have the upper hand on the band. As they have in the past...I ain't doing nothing for Elektra records 'cause they ain't done nothin' for me but
fuckin' waste my time. Aside from the other band which I ain't ever doin' nothin' with again...and I don't want to talk about it."
Sam: I figured that...any chance Elektra might release you guys so you could..
Phil: "You know, it's like... it makes me really wonder what kind of ego...and what the
fuck did I do to
fuckin' Elektra Records except deliver a platinum
fuckin' record every
fucking time. For them to hang on to my
fuckin' career and all this
fucking shit you know. Whatever, you know, play 'who's got the bigger dick' and, everybody knows I've got the bigger dick, you know, it's time for them to
fuckin' chill out and let bygones be bygones. Let me
fuckin' go on with my
fuckin' life and I won't ever
fuckin' bug you again."
Sam: How's the label been so far with Superjoint?
Phil: "Look man, I've gotta give all credit to Sanctuary because they are doing what they said they're going to do to a certain point. And they are the only ones that are
fuckin' doin' it. Yet, I think they are understaffed, they could be bigger hitters. I don't think they know necessarily how to break a band, they know what to do with a band after their careers are over and shit like that, they make sure the product comes out. But that is not the
fuckin' issue with Superjoint, I want Superjoint Ritual to be every
fuckin'thing that people maybe missed in Pantera. Because I knew that, you know, Pantera, not to talk about 'um, because I'm not going to, but if it weren't
fuckin' for me, in that
fuckin' band...what I
fuckin' taught those
motherfuckers. You know, you'll see on their new shit, the singer is gonna come out and imitate me, the best he possibly can. He's gonna have to end up singing songs that I wrote when I was
fuckin' 20 years old, and their gonna sound like Diamond Darrell and Vinny Paul's killer sound, you know, they're not doing anything different. Whereas with Superjoint, yeah, we're doing something
fuckin' different. I'm not saying it's never been done before, but what I'm saying is, is it's definitely a genre of music that changed my life forever. This is where I've wanted to be for so long, musically, you know, 'cause we've been writing Superjoint shit for oh god, since '93, and you know, long time coming man. I mean to
fuckin' be with them, with this
fuckin' band for damn sure."
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