they make you wait. He went through just chemo the first time but this
time it was more aggressive and he didn’t have time to wait around for
the public system. If he didn’t act right away there were going to be ma-
jor problems and it was very aggressive and had to be taken care of right
away. The manager called and said I know you guys love Wally and I love
Wally, but everything you have been waiting for the last 10 years is here.
It was either call it a day or get a sub for Wally until he was better and we
did the 75 tour dates across the United States and Canada with sponsors
and everything. We were there! We did it and it caused a rift between the
players . We had Wally’s blessing but the other singer didn’t want to and
that was the beginning of the end for that specific lineup. We were play-
ing out and the label shows up and says “Here’s the deal , the press kit we
got, the images and video we see and what you guys are selling is not on
the stage (laughs).
The base player isn’t the one I’m seeing and where’s the lead singer?”
I said “We have two and I’m one of them!”
Where is the other?
“Umm, he didn’t come.”
Off the table! You can imagine what happened after that. So we took an-
other hiatus to figure things out. Wally got everybody together and we
changed some members. Some stuck around, some didn’t. What we have
now is solid and the new record is coming out. We’re so strong because
when we were on hiatus we just recorded and recorded and we have
enough material for years and we’re just gonna pump it out while we’re
working and touring. We redid Anguish and put it out with a video. Six
months later we put out Baby Take It All and there will be another sur-
prize around December.
And the lineup?
Clarence is Pat but he’s Kadaver now (laughs) He was using Kadaver when
he was with The Brains while we were on hiatus.
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