{"id":37356,"date":"2019-03-08T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=37356"},"modified":"2019-03-08T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:00:05","slug":"josh-todd-of-buckcherry-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2019\/03\/josh-todd-of-buckcherry-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Todd of Buckcherry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201c\u2026<\/strong>change is really good for Buckcherry as painful as it is sometimes but you know the old line-up it just wasn\u2019t a united front for like three years before it actually happened, so it was a long time coming, people are much happier, the people who left and the people who are here now and Buckcherry is thriving again\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: Buckcherry\u00a0will release their new studio album,\u00a0Warpaint<\/em>, on March 8, 2019. The 12 song album, featuring 11 new\u00a0Buckcherry songs along with their cover of the\u00a0Nine Inch Nails\u00a0track\u00a0Head like a Hole<\/em>, was produced by\u00a0Mike Plotnikoff, whose last collaboration with the band was the platinum certified album, 15.The band plans extensive worldwide touring throughout 2019 commencing with four Southern California shows in January followed by a month long UK\/Europe tour in February. The first leg of the North American tour will begin in March.<\/p>\n

At home in Los Angeles and getting ready to kick off the Warpaint tour Josh gave us a call to talk about the band\u2019s new album \u2018Warpaint\u2019, its creation, change, touring, and more\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been three years since we last chatted, so let\u2019s catch up. How have the last three years been for you?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been good, I did a lot of stuff, I put out a record on my own, Josh Todd and The Conflict, \u2018Year of the Tiger\u2019 and had a really good time making that it was a more aggressive rock record I did with Stevie and I wrote that whole thing and had a blast.<\/p>\n

Even though this is your eighth album, do you still get a buzz around release time and what are the feeling like when you\u2019re about to release something new to the world?<\/strong>
\nYeah I\u2019m anxious, I\u2019m nervous because I put a lot into it, we started writing on this record cycle back in November of 2017, so we put in a lot of time we wrote about thirty songs for an eleven song record to whittle it down to that and man it really paid off, I feel like this is one of the best.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What does \u2018Warpaint\u2019 represent to you as a title?<\/strong>
\nI just think you can do so much with it, at first it was a song \u2018Warpaint\u2019 is the title track on the record and we just wanted a record title and I love one word record titles and Stevie does as well and we just think it has a little more power just having one name that\u2019s very bold and big and so we threw around a bunch of ideas but warpaint kept showing up because we wanted a name we could do a lot artistically as well with the artwork and I was always fascinated with the Native Americans growing up and I love the warpaint that they would put on their bodies in battle and also to get through big milestones in their lives. Cut to I\u2019m pretty heavily tattooed as well and I love heavily tattooed people, I think it looks really cool and I\u2019ve always been a fan.<\/p>\n

Obviously this is the band\u2019s first album without Keith, besides that how if in any way did making this album differ from any of your previous works?<\/strong>
\nYeah aside from that I mean it\u2019s not, it\u2019s not different I wrote all the lyrics and melodies and at this time Stevie who has been a long-time friend of mine way before he was in Buckcherry and because of the politics of the band when he got in the band he didn\u2019t get a lot of opportunities to write and boy I didn\u2019t know how talented he was until we made \u2018The Conflict\u2019 record and then it really set the stage for Buckcherry song writing after that. It was a labour of love we really connect on a lot of levels musically and as friends, so we had a lot of fun doing it.<\/p>\n

Do you feel like this has given the band a kick in the ass and lit a fire under you again?<\/strong>
\nYeah you know change is really good for Buckcherry as painful as it is sometimes but you know the old line-up it just wasn\u2019t a united front for like three years before it actually happened, so it was a long time coming, people are much happier, the people who left and the people who are here now and Buckcherry is thriving again, and we\u2019re having fun again and it\u2019s very reminiscent of the situation that happened right before the \u201815\u2019 record, we had been out for three years, hadn\u2019t put a record out for three years, we had line-up changes then and we made a really great record at that point. So I hope that\u2019s not the theme of making a great record *laughs* but we worked really hard on it and I think people will appreciate it.<\/p>\n

Speaking of \u201815\u2019 you reconnected with Mike Plotnikoff for this album, what was the idea of going back to him and what did he bring back to the band that you feel may have been missing before?<\/strong>
\nI mean I feel like we should\u2019ve gone back to him a long time ago and for a number of different reasons we didn\u2019t and he\u2019s been making really great records since \u201815\u2019, he\u2019s done a lot in the active rock records, \u2018Halestorm\u2019 and a gang of other bands and we just wanted to have that sonic quality and as a person Mike is just a great guy and just pleasant to around and we just wanted to have a great experience making a record again and when we sent him the demos he was instantly amped, he loved everything we were doing and he loved the songs and it was a real easy transition.<\/p>\n

Of course with a new record comes touring, so are there any plans to return to Australia on the cards?<\/strong>
\nYeah there\u2019s talk of us coming in the fall or at the end of the year, we\u2019re trying to tie in Japan as well because that\u2019s a big market for us, my manager is working on it right now, he\u2019s working on it as we speak.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to see you guys do a headline tour, you\u2019ve come on support runs, but a headline tour would be awesome!<\/strong>
\nYeah I would like that too, that would be good.<\/p>\n

Over time it\u2019s very easy to say what\u2019s changed but what would you say is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in your time together?<\/strong>
\nThe work ethic has stayed the same, I can only speak for myself but I\u2019ve been working from record to record, if I\u2019m not making a Buckcherry record I\u2019m writing other songs, I\u2019m making another record or collaborating on songs, I\u2019m just a student of the game and since I embarked on a music career when I was fifteen I really haven\u2019t looked back and I think you know the thing about my career is I always wanted to be in one band for a long time and make a catalogue of music and its definitely coming true, this marks twenty years in the game for us, eight records and I\u2019m so proud of it, and my goal with Buckcherry is to make ten records, that would be really great that\u2019s a good number for me. I\u2019m just taking it one day at a time and just focusing on what\u2019s in front of me with \u2018Warpaint\u2019.<\/p>\n

Looking back was there one piece of advice you were given when you started making music that you still go back to and use to this day?<\/strong>
\nYeah the piece of advice I always give other people is you better be passionate , passion wins over everything and you\u2019ve gotta be relentless in your pursuit, you can\u2019t hold on to setbacks or just things that happen that get in the way, there\u2019s always peaks and valleys and as long as you just maintain moving towards whatever desired goal that is for you, whether it\u2019s music\u00a0 or sports or anything, business, that\u2019s it really, it\u2019s passion.<\/p>\n

Over the twenty years obviously you\u2019ve done a lot but are there still things you want to do that you haven\u2019t yet had the chance to do?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely, there\u2019s always places in the world that I haven\u2019t played and it\u2019s fun for us to go to really remote places and put on a Buckcherry show and see what happens to people. We\u2019ve done military shows and our own shows and there\u2019s places that I really want to get to or want to get back to, like we want to get back to Australia we haven\u2019t been there in a while, want to get back to South America and Mexico, I have other musician friends that have been to Russia a few times and say once you get on stage it\u2019s really great so I\u2019d like to go there, Dubai, a lot of stuff. We\u2019ve already done a lot of stuff in our career and I\u2019m very proud of it all but there\u2019s always room to grow and places to get to so that would be fun.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, in 2019 Buckcherry will\u2026<\/strong>
\nIn 2019 Buckcherry will venture off into new territories for sure, be on stages and people that we haven\u2019t been in front of and cultures, and I really think in 2019 I hope that \u2018Warpaint\u2019 is the rock record of the year.<\/p>\n

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

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong>\u00a0Josh Todd – Vocals, Stevie D. – Guitars, Kelly Lemieux – Bass, Kevin Roentgen \u2013 Guitars, Francis Rulz – Drums<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.buckcherry.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong>\u00a0Warpaint (Out Now)<\/p>\n

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