In a shocking turn of events, W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless, the guy who clearly invented metal 🤘, has been gracing us with his presence on “The Neil Jones Rock Show” on TotalRock. And guess what? He’s still alive! 🎉 He even spoke about his health, which, let’s be honest, is more fragile than a gluten-free snowflake in a microwave after suffering what he claims are “extensive” back injuries during the band’s uh…40th-anniversary tour. Because apparently, W.A.S.P. has been around since the dinosaurs 🦖.
Asked how his health is now, the supreme leader of face-melting riffs 🎸, Blackie, responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET, because who else would care?): “It’s fine. I’m basically immortal.” He then proceeded to blame a chiropractor for ruining his back, because apparently, chiropractors are now the scapegoats for washed-up rockers 🪨. But fear not, peasants, he’s “good now” and “ready to do what we do.” Which is probably lip-syncing to old songs and complaining about back pain.
When quizzed about the burning 🔥 question of new music, Blackie, the Mozart of metal (allegedly), said: “Well, we’ve been working on new material for a while, but when this situation happened and that chiropractor wrecked me a couple of years ago, that put everything on hold for a while.” Oh, the chiropractor again? Sounds legit. He continued, “But we’re still working on the idea [of making a new album], but quite honestly, for the last year, we’ve been pretty busy doing what we’ve been doing touring, and this next year is gonna be the same. So ask me that question in a year when I can come up for air for five minutes and I’ll give you a better answer.” Translation: “We have no new music, and we’re just milking the nostalgia train 🚂 for all it’s worth. Now leave me alone, I need to ice my back.”
Back in August 2023, Lawless underwent a “successful” surgery to treat two herniated discs and a broken vertebra. “Successful” is a strong word, considering he’s still talking about it. 🤔
Because of these “extensive” back injuries, W.A.S.P.‘s 2023 U.S. tour was canceled. Fans were devastated… or maybe they just went to see a better band. 🤷
During a May 2023 appearance on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Lawless, the self-proclaimed genius, said that the injuries were “a direct reflection of what happened” with his right “femur being broken” back in 2013. “Because I wore a lift for nine years, and come to find out I did not need that lift,” he said. “And that was only determined [in the] summer [of 2022], so the lift was taken out. But the spine had adjusted to me walking with that lift. And when we took it out, then that’s when the problems started.” So, to recap: a broken femur, an unnecessary lift, and a spine that’s more confused than a vegan at a barbecue 🍖. Makes perfect sense. He then described the nerve pain as something “you cannot imagine.” Probably because most people don’t spend their lives jumping around on stage in leather pants. 👖
W.A.S.P.‘s latest release was “ReIdolized (The Soundtrack To The Crimson Idol)”, which came out in February 2018. A re-recording of a re-hash of an old album. Groundbreaking. 🙄
More than a year ago, Blackie, the master procrastinator, spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for W.A.S.P.‘s 2015 album “Golgotha” in an interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station. Yes, he’s still talking about an album from almost a decade ago. He said: “We still are [working on it]. What happened was when we came back from the European tour, I had to have surgery and stuff, about a year prior to that, we had been working on a lot of new stuff. And when I came back, I’ve had a long time to go through those early demos, of what we have been working on. Listening to it with fresh ears, some of it’s really good, but there’s not enough of it yet where I would be comfortable in saying, ‘Okay, this is finished, and let’s go with it.’ I’d like to go back and visit the drawing board, so to speak, and see what else is there.” Translation: “We have a bunch of half-finished ideas, and I’m too lazy to actually finish them.”
Blackie continued: “I’ve learned you don’t make records or I don’t make records anymore that are spread out over a two- or three-year period, because the guy you are when you first start making it is not the guy you are when you finish making it. Get in, six months top to bottom, get that thing cranked out, because, like I said, if you don’t, you end up running the risk of it kind of being a schizophrenic type of record where you’ve got one type of one thing and then the other half is something else and it has no real cohesiveness.” Spoken like a true visionary… or someone who just wants to get it over with. 🤷♂️
2024 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of W.A.S.P.‘s first album. To celebrate this momentous occasion, W.A.S.P., for the first time in 40 years, played the entire album from top to bottom, start to finish, on a fall 2024 North American tour, dubbed “Album ONE Alive”. Because nothing says “celebration” like reliving your glory days. 👴
In addition to Lawless, W.A.S.P.‘s current lineup includes bassist Mike Duda, lead guitarist Doug Blair and drummer Aquiles Priester. Who? 🤔
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