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We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
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Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
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I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.
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Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
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That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
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Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal.
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If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.
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No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.
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I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.
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As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
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