It’s December 5, only 20 days left til Xmas and 26 til my birthday. 2011 really flew by. I can safely say it was the best year of my life. My son was born, Worship Music came out and we played Yankee Stadium. It’s been a great year and I plan to keep it going all month and into 2012. Being home with the family after the amazing tour of the states we did has been great. Family, friends and parties all month, Santa help my liver.

Also this month…

Going to Metallica at the Fillmore Dec 7.

I’m playing poker in the All In for CP tourney Dec 9 at the Venetian. For more info click here.

I’m playing at the Dime Bash on Dec 14th here in Hollywood. See the pic of the guitar I’ll be playing.

On Dec 16 I’m playing in Phil Hellmuth’s 2nd Annual Hold’em tourney to benefit Agrace HospiceCare in Madison WI. Get those HO Burgers ready! For more info on this click here.

And that’s it. The rest of the time I’ll be home with Pearl and Revel enjoying the holidays. I hope you’re all having a great December.

Oh, and stay tuned for more dates (on top of what we announced today) to be announced very soon.

Cheers,
Scott

Thanks from Anthrax!!!

Darrell made this for me back in 1996. It’s my Dime L’Chaim.

 

 

Hello my friends how are ya?

I hope you had a great 11/11/11. Did you listen to Number Of The Beast in its entirety? I did.

Like most days that commemorate things, the meaning is in the right place but for me (and I’m sure you as well if you’re reading this) every day is metal day. I don’t need a reminder or a national holiday to tell me this. And… it doesn’t happen again for 100 years so some national holiday. I do love that Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are responsible for it so in the end, I back it.

The shows have been going great since we last spoke. This tour overall has been a huge success. GREAT crowds and a whole lot of fun in general. Been hanging a lot with Mark from Death Angel. We’ve been friends outside of being in bands for a long time so it’s really cool to get to see him every day and partake in some Fernet fueled revelry. The other night we had a long iPod bus Karaoke session, Charlie picking out everything from Steely Dan to Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to Stevie Wonder.

The “Wardances” have been sick of late. Wall to wall front to back insanity every night. Last night I told the crowd in Massachusetts to imagine A-Rod was in the pit with them and to stomp him for us. That gave them a little bit of an incentive!

The band is really getting tight and the set is powerful. Having fun out here and loving the support/reaction that everyone is giving us for Worship Music is a big part of it. I would say this is the closest this band has ever been. Feels great after all the shit we went through the last 4 years. Thank you so much, all of you, thank you.

We’re in NJ tonight. Sold out at the Starland and it’s going to be fucking crazy. Hometown show basically because Sayreville/Old Bridge NJ is where this whole thing started for us many moons ago.

Time to go get some coffee, but I just wanted to drop this on you… For me the highlight of the set is In The End. It’s so much fun to play and it really resonates with people. Our friend Stephen Thompson did this piece of art just because the song moved him to it. I have to share this with you all it’s so fucking awesome.

Hello my friends how are ya?

I’m sitting on the bus outside the venue in Dallas getting ready for tonight’s insanity. It’s game 7 of the World Series between the Rangers and the Cardinals. This city is ready to blow!

We were at a bar last night watching game 6, the Rangers were one strike away from clinching twice and they couldn’t and St Louis kept coming back. So clutch. Anyway, as a Yankee fan with nothing invested in this other than my love for baseball I hope Texas wins because it’ll make for a better show tonight! Party!!!

And speaking of party, looking forward to seeing Vinnie Paul tonight.

This tour has been great so far. The shows have been above and beyond my expectations. Albuquerque was insane and so was San Diego. Both places we hadn’t been in a while and you maniacs came out strong!!! LA and SF were off the hook crazy with some of the sickest pits I’ve ever seen.

Denver was an expected madhouse as we played the same place a year ago and it was great then. It was better this time. Thank you! KC with FFDP was huge. 5000 of you tearing it up with us. And KC has one of the few radio stations in the country that has the balls to play Anthrax. 98.9 The Rock have been supporting Worship Music since the start. They’re pumping The Devil You Know. Fuck yeah!!!

Minneapolis, Chicago, Wichita, Grand Rapids all great as well. Thank you all for coming out and supporting live music.
In San Francisco Kirk Hammett came out to the show at the Warfield and we had a great time. Backstage before the show Charlie and Kirk played pretty much every Aerosmith song from the 70′s. We were doing shots of Fernet Branca and then it was show time. Kirk was watching from the soundboard out front and at some point he ran into the pit and was right up front going nuts! He told me afterwards he just couldn’t help himself because we were so damn heavy! During I Am The Law Kirk came out with mark Osegueda to sing the choruses and then at the end of the song we went into Whiplash and I handed him my guitar. I had fun banging my head and playing air guitar like it was 1983! Kerry king, Gary Holt, Rob Flynn, Phil Demmel were all there as well and it was awesome to catch up with everyone.

There was an after party at the Clock Bar in the St Francis hotel and the raging went long into the morning. It was a great night SF, thank you!

All right my maniacs, it’s time to soundcheck. Dallas tonight, Austin tomorrow and Houston Sunday. Let’s go Texas!!!

Cheers,
Scott

Hey all, how are ya?

I’m sitting here in Wichita getting ready to sound-check. The tour has been great so far. Grand Rapids, Chicago and Minneapolis have all been CRAZY. It’s been an awesome kick-off to the Worship Music touring cycle and I thank you for coming out!!!

Looking forward to Denver tomorrow, the Summit should be nuts and then this weekend we’re at the Freaker’s Ball in KC, the Nokia in Los Angeles and the Warfield in San Francisco. I really can’t wait for LA and SF. I think those shows are going to be exceptional. Let’s see what you got my friends!

Here’s some pics, random stuff that I dig.

More later.

Cheers,
Scott

‘Nuff said!

I went to the season two premiere of The Walking Dead the other night and it was great. There are some amazing zombie scenes and after one particularly brutal zombie slay I started cheering and the whole theater followed suit. Watch it starting Oct 16 on AMC and watch these webisodes (I’m in episode 6 at the 1:45 mark) http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/the-walking-dead-webisodes-1-a-new-day.

Amazingly enough, Zombies aren’t what I’m here to talk about. I’m here to talk about meeting my idol/hero/mentor/reason for being…Stan Lee. If you don’t know who he is, you’ve really been living in a cave for 50 years and you’d better Google him immediately. I sent the pic you see here to my friend (and intrepid photographer) Andy Buchanan to frame up for me and he replied with my exact feelings on meeting him…

That must have been fucking unreal. Stan fucking Lee. Literally immeasurable part of our lives.

Imagine the friends you’d never have met, the experiences you’d never had had. The path your life would have taken. All because a guy with an idea wanted to tell the stories rattling around his head. As I type this I’m drinking coffee from a Silver Surfer mug for fuck sake!

Like you (Gene aside!) I’m not a starstruck type, but that would have got me sweating. I know you well, and I can clearly see how excited you are. So amazing!

Resized the pictures for you, good to print all the way up to 12×16.

Again, amazing!

Excelsior!!!

Andy.

What Andy says is true. I started reading Marvel Comics when I was 7 years old. It was the gateway for me into everything else. Horror, sci-fi, music, you name it. When I was 12 Kiss became my favorite band because they were a perfect combination of comics and music. I saw Kiss in Dec 77 at Madison Sq Garden and I knew that I was going to be in a band, it’s what I wanted to do, it’s what I had to do and when I left that show I started on a path that I have never strayed from. If it wasn’t for Stan Lee I may have never opened my mind up to the possibilities of the seemingly impossible.

We spoke for a few minutes and he was simply The Man. Funny, whip-smart, kind, self-deprecating, everything I imagined he would be from my years of worshipping from afar.

It was truly a life defining moment and I’m still buzzing from it.

Inspiring would be the word.

Cheers my friends, see you on tour starting next week.

Scott