Recently, Jason Simms from The Oregonian got a chance to interview Scott Ian for an upcoming feature on ANTHRAX. While Jason had Scott on the phone, he asked him about the cancellation of the "Mayhem Cruise". Here is what Scott had to say about this:
"I
saw the press release (read it HERE), and we were as
surprised as everybody else. We were literally out on the [Rockstar Energy Drink] Mayhem [Festival] tour when we heard that the cruise was canceled.
"It's a bummer. We were all really looking forward to it.
"It's funny because us MACHINE HEAD, LAMB OF GOD,
we're all good friends, we've all known each other forever. None of us
had ever been on a cruise before. We were all in Europe this summer
playing festivals together and we were like, 'What do you think of this
cruise thing? What's your take on it?' Everyone was kind of like,
'Alright, it's a little weird, we're going to be stuck on this boat for
four days,' but everyone was excited that we were going to get to hang
out and all get really shitty and have a lot of fun. I know all of us
were bummed and I heard from the MACHINE HEAD guys that they were bummed.
"Yeah,
I don't know why [it was canceled]. I can speculate and think that
maybe in this economy, it's kind of tough to sell a ticket for that much
money. You get all these bands and it's three days on a boat, if you
break it down to what it's costing you per day, it doesn't seem like a
lot of money. But I understand where we're at in this world in 2012.
People just don't have that kind of money to shell out. I can only
assume it comes down to that."
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Related links:
Rockstar Mayhemfest.com
ANTHRAX's Official Site
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