SOME KIND OF MACHINE HEAD
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 11:00am by Axl Rosenberg
In a statement, Machine Head main man Robb Flynn has revealed that he and Machine Head bassist Adam Duce have entered couples’ therapy.
To wit:
“Adam and I have been going to therapy. Yep… going to therapy, to work out our bullshit. And oh how we *needed* to do this… lemme tell ya, after 17 years of being in a band together, touring together for a large majority of that time, we’ve accumulated a lot of shit between the two of us that’s either been put off or swept under the rug, and frankly, it all reached a boiling point on the first night in Paris on the Slipknot tour. To summarize briefly, after a massive two-day-long fight, I quit the band. I was gonna be on a plane the next day and as far as I was concerned, I was never gonna see the dude again for the rest of my life. That next day he came by, and we agreed to try and sort it out… to try therapy before it all fell apart. Because it was falling apart. We agreed that the band meant more to us, that our friendship meant more to us, and that neither was something the two of us (four of us, for that matter) wanted to lose. All in all, it’s going okay. We both bring a LOT of baggage to the table, as, frankly, we’re both pretty fucked up. While it isn’t new for me (I did two years of fairly intensive therapy back ‘98, and more before The Blackening), it is new to him, and we still have a lot of work ahead of us…. but, we’re working at it. We don’t want to lose this, and after all we’ve been through, to lose this band, our friendship, now, would seem like the hugest of failures.”
I know I took a cheap shot in this post’s opening, but seriously, I can’t fault anyone for being in therapy; fuck, I’ve been in therapy for ten fucking years (If you think I’m a prick now, you should’ve known me before I started seeing a shrink). That being said, I know Machine Head are currently on tour with Metallica and may be feeling inspired by the example that band set in Some Kind of Monster. So I’d like to offer Misters Flynn and Duce some advice:
- Please hire a licensed therapist, not some penis in an ugly sweater with no actual degree in the field.
- Please don’t invite Logan Mader to any sessions for the sake of gaining “closure.”
- Please don’t film the sessions.
Other than that, have fun dudes!
-AR
I totally respect the fact that they value the band and their friendship enough to take steps and work that stuff out. It’s way too easy to let the ego get in the way and say “Fuck this and fuck you too” and walk away. And I respect that they are letting out in the open…they gotta be aware of the shit they’re gonna take for it.
And I second what you said Axl..keep the cameras out of it please. While I respect what they’re doing, we don’t need to see it.
Therapy?
Oh dear. Hope they sort things out.
And here I thought I was the only one who wanted to strangle someone in my band and walk away from a valued friendship. One thing that people really don’t realize about being in a band is how challenging it is emotionally. Being in a band can create great friendships, and then ruin them much faster.
It’s not so much being in a band as the actual touring part, having to travel with someone and deal with them and their shit pretty much 24/7. I was in that situation once and after just a month everyone was sick of everyone else and needed a break from each other.
gay
Jesse Flip beat me to the punch.
They need to hire Jon Twinkletits of Dethklok fame.
Well maybe instead wasting their time they would think about making another album, cos Blackening was pretty decent but they could do a lot better… they have the potential don’t they ?
Bananna stickers.
They could always start their own variety show on Fox: Machine Head Reloaded.
Coulda tried getting a new bass player. Or not being a pack of woman who can’t get along. 17 years together & they can’t tell each other to fuck off & laugh about it over drinks later. Woteva.
yo, phil ansel-fag? where the fuck do you get off ripping on these guys for just being honest? dont even act like you really think that only “a pack of women who can’t get along” would have some fuckin emotional problems in a situation like theirs. machine head has always just been true to themselves, and thats what makes their music so much more genuine than all these other bullshit screamo-emo bands on the metal scene today. now if you still want to act like a tough guy and pretend like you dont have your own share of emotional issues, then give me your address so that I can personally show up on your doorstep and remove your head from your ass.