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\"\"<\/a>\u201c\u2026I\u2019ve been in a band for four decades I\u2019ve done a lot, I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve met a lot of people, I\u2019ve done things, crazy things with a lot of the people I\u2019ve met you know, if you know anything about my life and my time travelling the planet for the last thirty seven years then you know I probably have a lot to talk about\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: One of the metal world\u2019s most recognisable, praised and iconic figures, Scott Ian, will be in Australia for a series of spoken word events this September! The co-founding rhythm guitarist of ‘Big 4’ legends Anthrax practically invented Thrash Metal and in a career spanning nearly four decades remains as vital as ever. Scott’s rapid fire riffs, unmistakable crunchy tone and incisive lyrics continue to spawn generations of new bands who wear Anthrax\u2019s influence on their tattooed sleeves.<\/p>\n

Now, fans can hear and see Scott on stage in an entirely different way, behind a mike, telling wildly entertaining road stories about the people he has met, crazy experiences he has had and all the mischief, shenanigans and back stage antics he and his peers have gotten into over the past 38 years of touring the world!<\/p>\n

In Missoula, Montana while out on tour with Anthrax we gave Scott Ian a call to catch up on his upcoming Australian ‘One Man Riot’ spoken word tour, telling stories, pop culture, what\u2019s happening musically, and much more\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been about four years since we last chatted so let\u2019s catch up, how have the last four years been for you?<\/strong>
\nGreat, busy, pretty much non-stop!<\/p>\n

Last time we saw you here in Australia was doing some spoken word shows with Jericho, now you\u2019re coming back with a \u2018One Man Riot\u2019 so tell us how these shows will shape up?<\/strong>
\nI was down there on tour with Anthrax at the time and we were able to put those two shows together but I only did about an hour on those shows because I was actually opening for Chris so this will be a much longer version *laughs* of what I did on those shows, an hour is barely an anecdote but it\u2019s an interesting anecdote when it\u2019s an hour long. Anyway, yeah I\u2019ve got a lot of shit to talk about, I\u2019ve been in a band for four decades I\u2019ve done a lot, I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve met a lot of people, I\u2019ve done things, crazy things with a lot of the people I\u2019ve met you know, if you know anything about my life and my time travelling the planet for the last thirty seven years then you know I probably have a lot to talk about and I\u2019ve done I don\u2019t know about forty or fifty of these talking shows in the last five years and you know, the way I judge it to see if it\u2019s working or not is do people laugh in the right places, do people laugh where they\u2019re supposed to laugh? Most of the audiences have been doing that fairly consistently so I think it\u2019s safe to say I\u2019m doing something right.<\/p>\n

Do you have an idea of a set or do you just start talking and go from there?<\/strong>
\nNo I have an idea, because there are a few specific stories that I just really enjoy telling and this is really still my first time through as far as bringing this show and what I do around the planet, so it\u2019s still kind of new. If I came back to Australia eighteen months or so from now to do it again or two years from now I would certainly do different material, but at the same time you never know because I\u2019ve talked to some of my comedian friends about this and I said is it hard for you like when your jokes get on YouTube or you\u2019ve played a club in the city now you\u2019re back six months later playing that same club and do you feel like you need a new set? They said, sometimes yeah you do feel like you need new material but for comedians a lot of their jokes they compare it to a band who has hit songs and if you come back to a city over and over again there\u2019s probably a few songs that you\u2019re always gonna play no matter what people just wanna hear \u2018em and for comedians and I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m a comedian, I\u2019m a storyteller, but one of my comedian buddies said some of your stories, they\u2019re your hits, there are some stories that no matter how many times people hear you tell it they\u2019re just gonna want to hear you tell it again. So I don\u2019t really have to worry about that yet because it\u2019s not like it\u2019s my sixth time touring the planet doing this, but I do have a good idea. I also have so much to pull from, there\u2019s so much material that there\u2019s stories that I\u2019m working on now that I want to try and get in the set, stuff that I\u2019ve ever done before and it\u2019ll just be on the night pretty much every night. I always know where I\u2019m starting put it that way, I always know what I\u2019m gonna open with and then based on the reaction of that first five or ten minutes I\u2019ll have a really good idea of where I\u2019m going next and that\u2019s kind of how I do it.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite story that you love telling?<\/strong>
\nYeah my story about meeting Lemmy in 1985, that\u2019s my favourite story by far, there\u2019s so much to it, there\u2019s so many different levels, there\u2019s so many things that happened, there\u2019s so many tangents and different roads I go down when I tell that story because as a I tell it more and more doors open, and because it\u2019s about Lemmy, it\u2019s someone I was fortunate to spend a lot of time with over thirty years from like \u201985 \u00a0to 2105. Hey I guess it\u2019s similar with I have a story I tell about Dimebag Darrell, also another guy that\u2019s no longer with us anymore and I have a great, great story that I tell. I guess in a nutshell my answer I probably should have when people ask what\u2019s the show about it\u2019s pretty much like I get interviewed a lot and have been interviewed a lot over the years and nine times out of ten you get asked \u2019what\u2019s the craziest thing you\u2019ve ever seen?\u2019 or \u2018What\u2019s the craziest thing you\u2019ve ever been a part of?\u2019 that question and that\u2019s what this show is, you\u2019re hearing the craziest shit, that\u2019s what me getting on stage for two hours and telling stories, it is the craziest stuff that I\u2019ve been a part of in thirty seven years.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re also a writer in terms of two books of your own and worked with DC comics with a new series coming, when can we expect to read that and can you give us a little idea of what it will entail?<\/strong>
\nI wrote another book for their character The Demon but it was at a time when DC went into transition a couple of years ago and they basically just changed everything and my book just kind of got lost in the shuffle, badly, and so yeah I don\u2019t think that\u2019s ever coming out. It wasn\u2019t finished, it\u2019s not like it was done with art but I had written a whole story and gotten a lot of pages but it wasn\u2019t like a finished, done comic book, but who knows I\u2019ve got the story in my back pocket, whether I end up using it for The Demon or who knows, I change it to fit another character in their universe or someone else\u2019s universe.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve spoken pop culture before and a lot has happened over the years, finally seeing The Avengers and The Justice League on the big screen, Jodi Whittaker is the first female Doctor Who, it\u2019s a great time to love this sort of stuff, what has been your highlight and what are you most looking forward to?<\/strong>
\nOh man, the Marvel movies just keep getting better and better, they\u2019re on such a winning streak in my opinion they just keep getting better and better and this universe that they\u2019ve created and this plan that they put into effect ten years ago to get to where we are now with \u2018Infinity War 2\u2019 coming out next May. It\u2019s just mind blowing to me just these movies that we\u2019re getting to see and these stories and these characters realised in such an incredible way, look it all comes down to the story really, it all comes down to the written word for these movies and if the story is shit then I don\u2019t care how many effects and I don\u2019t care about anything else, it\u2019s gonna suck. But these Marvel movies are written really well and they\u2019re directed really well and they\u2019re acted really well and they look great and they\u2019re fun and they\u2019re entertaining bottom line. I know going into these movies that it\u2019s going to be two hours and fifteen minutes of fucking sheer entertainment, and I just love \u2018em. The Deadpool movies are brilliant, I know it\u2019s not Marvel studios I guess it is now because they own that character again I can only look forward to seeing Deadpool interacting with other characters in the Marvel universe and the X-Men, Wolverine interacting with other characters and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s all coming in the next ten years, just amazing. I can\u2019t say the same about the DC movies, I really loved the Wonder Woman movie, beyond that there\u2019s things I like about Justice League and there were things that I liked about Batman vs Superman but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re great movies, I think they\u2019re still trying to figure out how to represent these characters and maybe they just need to start looking for new writers because in my opinion they\u2019re just nearly and good as the Marvel movies. I do have high hopes for the Shazam movie I saw the trailer for that and it looks like they\u2019re really capturing a vibe with that movie and I know people will probably say \u2018oh they\u2019re trying to make it like Thor Ragnarok\u2019 they\u2019re trying to make it lighter and finnier but so what, they have to try something to break out of this place they\u2019re in with all these blue tinted depressing movies that they make, you know just have some fun with these characters, still be serious but everyone fucking dies in Infinity War and it\u2019s still a fun movie, Marvel\u2019s really figured it out. Look I love all the DC characters, I love \u2018em, I just feel they have not represented them right on the screen yet.<\/p>\n

What would you love to do as a musician or writer or simply fan that you haven\u2019t yet had the chance to do?<\/strong>
\nYeah if we could just play one show with AC\/DC, that\u2019s the one band we\u2019ve never played with, I guess that would be top of my wish list. We\u2019ve never even played on the same festival on different days, we\u2019ve never even come close. I can only hope with the rumoured album with Brian Johnson next year that they\u2019ll do a big tour and hopefully somehow we\u2019ll get to play with them.<\/p>\n

Are you up to anything exciting musically of late?<\/strong>
\nNo not yet, we\u2019re so in the thick of this Slayer tour, right now we\u2019re on a run we\u2019ve just done twenty two shows in twenty six days so right now there\u2019s no room for creativity *laughs* really it\u2019s just sheer focus of getting on stage every night and we do the best that we can do every night and entertain the people coming to see this tour. When this tour is done we finish up with them in Europe in December and as far as I know right now early next year will be quiet as far as touring goes and the plan is for us to get together and start arranging some new music then.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, by the end of 2018 Scott Ian will\u2026<\/strong>
\n*laughs* Be really, really tired *laughs* but happy, very happy.<\/p>\n

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Come and listen to Scott tell his legendary tales (for several hours) at one of the venues below<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, September 24: Dunstan Play House,\u00a0Adelaide<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 26: Goldfields Theatre – MCEC,\u00a0Melbourne<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 29: Metro Theatre,\u00a0Sydney\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, October 1: The Tivoli,\u00a0Brisbane<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets on sale now<\/p>\n

Official Event Page<\/strong><\/p>\n

www.dinnerforwolves.com\/one-man-riot<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

VIP Packages Available From\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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