{"id":23969,"date":"2014-11-26T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=23969"},"modified":"2014-11-23T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T10:02:21","slug":"scott-ian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2014\/11\/scott-ian\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Ian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\n<\/a>\u201c\u2026I just kind of winged it the first time, so had a lot of questions for myself, mainly what do I do? How do I start? It\u2019s not like with Anthrax, when I\u2019m going on stage I don\u2019t have any questions, I know what I\u2019m doing, whereas this I had never done it before\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: Legendary heavy metal musician, author, and television personality SCOTT IAN had a lot to say on the European and United States legs of his ground breaking Speaking \u201cSwearing Words\u201d Tour. After decades-worth of international touring with Anthrax, bumping elbows with illustrious (and sometimes ridiculous) characters all over the media spectrum, and undergoing general \u201cyou won\u2019t believe this\u201d experiences\u2014 SCOTT IAN certainly had some hilarious and surprisingly personal stories to share. \u201cSwearing Words\u201d is an honest look at the insane life that Scott has led for the last 31 years, the people he\u2019s met, and the events that coincide. Now, you can experience Scott\u2019s \u201cSwearing Words\u201d Tour by way of Swearing Words in Glasgow, available via Caroline Australia on November 28TH, 2014.<\/p>\n

While he was in Los Angeles, we caught up with Scott Ian of Anthrax to talk about his new spoken word DVD \u2018Swearing Words\u2019 and how it all came about, as well as his book and more\u2026<\/p>\n

When did you decide that you wanted to get out there and tell these stories?<\/strong>
\nI didn\u2019t actually, I got asked to do a show in London two years ago, it was this thing called \u2018Rock Stars say the funniest things\u2019 and out of curiosity I decided to say yes and do it. It was basically out of that, then after than I enjoyed myself so much at that random one off thing that I did that then I decided that was really fun, I\u2019d like to do more of this and that\u2019s how it all kind of snowballed.<\/p>\n

What was it like the first time you got up there in front of a crowd without your guitar to tell these stories, was it a little daunting?<\/strong>
\nI never really thought of it in that context without a guitar because I have no problems speaking in front of people, unlike most people *laughs* I\u2019m not afraid of public speaking, so that was never really an issue for me, I mean the only thing that made me nervous was just the idea of having never done it before and not having as they say \u2018an act\u2019, it\u2019s not like I had developed the show and put it together over a few months and showed up all professional with a proper act, I just kind of winged it the first time, so had a lot of questions for myself, mainly what do I do? How do I start? It\u2019s not like with Anthrax, when I\u2019m going on stage I don\u2019t have any questions, I know what I\u2019m doing, whereas this I had never done it before, so that was the only thing that was odd for me. Once people started laughing in the right places, just a couple of minutes in I realised well I must be doing something right and then it was all good from there.<\/p>\n

Well when you start with the Lemmy story which incidentally is way better than mine, I met Lemmy at an airport souvenir store when he was looking at toy koalas\u2026<\/strong>
\n*laughs* Lemmy looking at koalas is pretty good too\u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Watching the DVD, is there anything you left out that you wanted in or wished you\u2019d added?<\/strong>
\nNo, not that I can think of, I have hours and hours of stories I can tell and that\u2019s what I did that night, those are the ones I planned on telling that night to shoot, so no, I didn\u2019t, there was nothing I felt like I had left out.<\/p>\n

I have to say I was in tears of laughter listening to the Dimebag \/ Sebastian Bach story, what was it like going back through your memories and reliving these stories?<\/strong>
\nWell, it\u2019s not kind of how it is, these stories have been part of my life for so long it\u2019s not like I was ever away from them for a long amount of time and then I came back to them. A lot of these are stories I\u2019ve been telling just with my friends for years, hanging out trading stories in a bar or whatnot, so I feel like I\u2019ve never really been too far away from them.<\/p>\n

You said before you were happy that people laughed in the right places, were you worried at all that maybe some of the stories may not have worked or been received how you\u2019d hoped?<\/strong>
\nI wasn\u2019t worried about them not being received well; if I worried about shit like that I wouldn\u2019t do anything in the first place. I approach this very much the same way I approach being in the band, I don\u2019t worry what anybody outside Anthrax thinks about what we do, we do what we do and it doesn\u2019t matter what anyone else thinks as it\u2019s never going to change what we do, and I felt the same way about this. They\u2019re my stories, I\u2019m the guy on stage with a microphone, if the people don\u2019t like it, I don\u2019t care, then maybe this is something I\u2019m not meant to be doing, but one way or another it\u2019s not going to affect what I do.<\/p>\n

What was the experience like of working with the pledge music platform for the release of this DVD?<\/strong>
\nIt worked out great for me, I wasn\u2019t too aware of crowd funding stuff beforehand, but my idea going in was I just wanted to be able to kind of cut out the middle man and produce this DVD and manufacture it and all that and at the same time own my own content, so it ended up working out really well.<\/p>\n

Now, we saw you do your spoken word show in Australia but with Chris Jericho, do you think we can expect you to be bringing your show back down to us again anytime soon?<\/strong>
\nYeah I\u2019m hoping so, I would love to, I spoke to John Howarth about that already, so I\u2019m hoping that at some point I\u2019ll get to come down and actually do some shows.<\/p>\n

How was that experience of those shows with Chris down here?<\/strong>
\nYeah they were both great, that was a shorter set because that was the two of us so we both got an hour, then we both got on stage and told some stories, so yeah I only did an hour when I was down there so it would definitely be fun to come back and do a full show that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

Now I know you\u2019re a massive fan and he\u2019s one of our musical legends, but do you have a Malcolm Young story you can share with us?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve never met him, no, Angus and Malcolm are like the two guys I\u2019ve never met, and I\u2019ve met everybody *laughs* and yeah I\u2019ve never met those guys. We\u2019ve never played a show with them, we\u2019ve never even been on the same festival on a different day, like we\u2019ve never even come close to playing a show with AC\/DC which is really odd *laughs*<\/p>\n

I wanted to ask also about your book that\u2019s just been released, how was the experience of putting it on paper, was that much different to what you\u2019re doing in the spoken word telling the stories?<\/strong>
\nYeah I mean it is, there is a bit of crossover between the two, but the book is obviously more a complete narrative of my life with some of these stories weaved into it. They\u2019re really two different animals, if you read the book and watched the DVD in the same week it wouldn\u2019t be like you were watching the same movie twice or reading the same book twice, they are two different things.<\/p>\n

It would be remiss of me to not throw a sneaky music question in, what are you up to musically at the moment?<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019re writing, we\u2019ve just been writing an Anthrax record for a long time now, there will actually be an official announcement soon as to what\u2019s happening\u2026<\/p>\n

So what I do with everyone is try and get them to predict the future, so if you can finish this sentence for me, in 2015, Scott Ian will…<\/strong>
\n*laughs* In 2015 Scott Ian will, I don\u2019t know, play a whole bunch of shows *laughs*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> USA<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.scott-ian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Forthcoming Release:<\/strong> \u2018Swearing Words in Glasgow\u2019 DVD (28th<\/sup> November \u2013 Caroline Australia)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n

\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t