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Monday, September 25, 2006
Stone Sour Story
A couple of weeks ago I climbed abroad the Stone Sour tour bus to interview Jim Root and Josh Rand. Josh was on the bus with the tour manager when I arrived. Jim was at an undisclosed location, and they asked me if I could just stay on the bus for 15 or 20 minutes while they tracked down Jim. I said no problem, you get used to waiting for artists if you do enough interviews, in-fact you just kind of plan a certain amount of waiting right into your schedule.

This was a pretty rainy day and part of me felt bad that I was on the big, fancy tour bus while everyone else was stuck outside in the rain, the other part of me (the Leo part) just loves the whole "Special Treatment" perk of my job.

Josh and I starting talking about some of our favorite guitar players and guitars. Josh is really into Paul Gilbert, I’m more of a Steve Vai fan. Josh asked what I wanted to drink, they had beer, and just about every kind of soda you can think of, so I said, "It doesn’t Matter"…..and thus a lesion was about to be learned.

Josh tossed me a Cherry Pepsi. I said "all the stuff you’ve got in there and you grab me a Cherry Pepsi?" he closed the door and said, "you said it didn’t matter, drink up." We joked about it a few times as we waited for Jim, but it was a good point, I said "All I wanted was a Pepsi, Just one Pepsi, and he wouldn’t give it to me" which is a line from a Suicidal Tendencies song and we laughed about it….while I drank the cherry Pepsi I was stuck with. Next time someone asks me what I want you can bet I’ll speak my mind.

Jim showed up after about a half-hour wait and it was a fun conversation. They were really cool guys to hang with. You can here the Stone Sour interview on this week’s Chop Shop, in Detroit it will be this Sunday morning at 9am on WRIF.

Black out.
11:23 AM

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