![]() ![]() You know, I’d rather be alive than give somebody $16 worth of Tracii Guns. And to those people - go fuck yourselves, man! I don’t give a fuck. There hasn’t been much of it, but there’s been a little bit of it. People with their negative attention-grabbing. It’s like, “I paid $16 to fuckin’ see you and you pussed out.” It’s like, “Really? How much did you spend on coffee that morning and how much did you not drink of that coffee?” That bullshit attitude and entitlement, it kind of muddies the water. People own you … and that’s fucked up, man. You know, I get a lot of shit … for people at that show and another show that we canceled because of the heat. As you’ve been talking about this, I’ve been thinking how for many years, there have been bands with an offstage keyboardist and things like that. I think I dreamed about it a lot after, like all of the horrible things that could have gone wrong. It was like, “Alright, here we go.” There might have been one ending that got really weird, but maybe not. It was like I was listening to a record really loud. It’s like, “Wow, this is nice and loud.” But it was articulate. ![]() It was probably realistically about 90 decibels, which is such a nice volume. You know, I had a microphone, I had my guitar, my guitar speaker and a monitor. At sound check, we did it, and I’d like to do that every night. I could get the drums, vocals, my guitar, Ace ’s guitar and everything. They just pulled a monitor into the bathroom I was in, and here’s where the technology really comes in - I was able to do my own mix on their console out there onstage, with my phone. But how did I hear the band? That’s the question. As long as I have this pedalboard and a powered speaker, I’m good. So I don’t have to have my whole rig with me to play. ![]() I use this digital pedalboard that has all of my sounds in it. It speaks in one sense to how tight you guys are as a band. Guns Perform 'The Ballad of Jayne' in Plano, Texas I don’t want to go into my diagnosis, because it’s nobody’s fuckin’ business. So if a situation like that comes up again, I’ll do exactly the same thing if it’s possible. Johnny, our bass player, suggested doing that. “Dude plays in bathroom.” You know, I’m like, “Yeah, I did.” But it was the easiest thing in the world because we have technology. It kind of dawned on me, like, “I guess not, I think you’re right.” The next morning, when I woke up, it’s everywhere. I just witnessed history.” We were laughing about it after the show. Like, Tom Keifer came up to me at the truck stop and goes, “No one’s ever done that before. The coolest thing about that is that it seemed like a huge deal. As a fan, it was pretty crazy to read that you had done that. First of all, mental health is no laughing matter. Guns played a concert with you performing from a bathroom. Guns set to release their latest album, Black Diamonds, on Friday, UCR spoke with the guitarist to hear the story of how he was able to strap on his guitar and keep rocking. "I will do an Instagram live stream during the set if y’all really need to watch me play. But bassist Johnny Martin helped to hatch a different plan. "I will be playing in a comfy bathroom directly behind the stage where there is air conditioning," Guns wrote. Initially, some people suspected the band might forge ahead as a four-piece. ![]()
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