![]() ![]() "The first major label record we made, the producer told me that I sounded better when I was drinking," the singer said. He recognized the habits stemmed from being "socially awkward" and then manifested themselves in another way once a producer suggested he track vocals while drunk. And it just got to the point where I didn't have an addiction so much as it was just a crutch," Biersack went on. And then I would feel down and so I'd go to a hotel room and drink by myself and then try to write songs and just spinning out. "And I still do, but the way that I was doing it at that age was I'd get really drunk and we'd play three songs and I'd spend the rest of the show trying to fight people. "We've gotten so much shit from the day that we started from so many people and it made me so mad and angry and I wanted to defend myself and defend my band," he said, "and more importantly, as a kid who came from a small town of modest means, who just wanted to be around other people who liked the same shit as me, I felt this sense of responsibility to our audience to be the guy who will stand up for them and fight against people that talk shit about the band." In developing his onstage persona and character within Black Veil Brides, Biersack relayed that he battled with becoming the character he had created over his genuine self. And by the time I hit my mid-20s, I was just kind of over it," he recollected. "And it just became by the time I'm 21, 22, I've just got this weird suit of armor that I've made of this thing that I've read somebody say in an interview and this aesthetic choice that somebody made and all this stuff that I'm kind of taking and making it into whatever my thing is. "You've got to party hard, you've got to be crazy and you've got to cultivate this personality," he said of the false perspective he had gained at the time. And you're 22 you must know everything about the world.' And so as it happened, being so young and then heading into a career in music, I started kind of piecing together a personality based on these other people that I was around," the Black Veil Brides frontman explained.īiersack also noted that he was surrounded by individuals older than him on tour and, by watching their actions, he was under the impression that this was what was expected of musicians in rock bands. Well, that's five more people than I thought were going to be there, and they all say, 'Hey, you're the shit.' And I'm, like, 'Oh, that's awesome. ![]() "And then I'm touring regionally in a car, things are happening and we go play a basement to five people. Basically, my childhood was I'd play sports and then I'd come home and I'd paint my face and I'd sing into the mirror and then I'd go to hockey practice or whatever and then I'd come back and paint my face and sing into a mirror and dream of drawing and making costumes," he continued.īecause of these preoccupations, Biersack said that it didn't leave "much time for friends" and described himself as "just kind of a loner kid" who wasn't sure how to conduct himself around others or how to construct meaningful friendships. I didn't really socialize much growing up. "All I wanted in the world was to be in a rock band and to go on tour and to get to do this thing that I had this dream to do. "It was just one of those situations where I was so young," the singer began (transcription via Blabbermouth). ![]()
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