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Pierce The Veil Guitarist Tony Perry’ 2016 Summer Tour Survival Guide— Mayhem Fest
In this new feature from the August 2015 issue of Guitar Planet, the guitarists of Pierce The Veil, Morbid Angel, Trivium and other metal acts tell how they’ ll beat the heat and tame the crowds on the season’ s biggest tours.
o mark the end, Vic Fuentes
Thas returned to where it all began. Standing on the edge of the rocks at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, the city where he was born, he’ s come to put an end to years of turmoil, uncertainty and stress. Vic idly swings a deep red Epiphone guitar from his right hand as he looks out over the Pacific Ocean, a breeze blowing the hair peeking from the bottom of his now trademark snapback and with five and a half thousand miles of water between himself and Japan.
e takes a deep breath, two
Hsteps forward and hurls the guitar off the cliff. It arcs through the air, almost in slow motion and disappears from view. Vic stands up straight and clenches both fists. It’ s done. His bandmates Mike, Tony and Jaime whoop and cheer, each of them back in their home city – the place where this band was brought together – to put their new album‘ Misadventures’ to bed.
fter all of the false starts,
Aand twists and turns of the last few years, it’ s finally time for the four of them to look forward and start the next chapter of this band’ s incredible story. But not before they’ ve filled in the gaps with Rock Sound. Once‘ Misadventures’ was done,“ I definitely felt a little more like myself,” Vic tells us a day earlier, clutching his second coffee of the day in his brother Mike’ s leafy garden. Mike Fuentes – Vic’ s junior by two years – walks the premises puffing on a Pierce The Veilbranded vaporiser with his dog, a scruffy black terrier named Frank, scrabbling under his feet.
uitarist Tony Perry plays
Gwith his phone behind thickrimmed glasses, stopping to show off the lump in his shoulder caused by a mountain biking accident last summer. Meanwhile, bassist Jaime Preciado bounces around the house, forever the life and soul of everything. The band are a picture of contentment.
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