Hello my friends how are ya?

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

I did.

I took a few hours off from feeding/changing/hanging with the kid to go play Bring The Noise with Public Enemy. They were playing on the Sunset Strip Music Festival which was literally on Sunset. There was a stage at the Key Club facing west and a stage at the Whisky facing east and the whole street in between was closed. The vibe was amazing. It was so cool to see so many people out for the show and Sunset just looked great with a giant crowd standing on it.

I got to PE’s dressing room and found their guitar player Khari so we could go over the arrangement. They do it differently than the way we do it in Anthrax and I needed a quick refresher.

I saw Flav right after that. The man doesn’t age! It’s always great to hang with Flav and it’s great to see how the masses just fucking love him! I headed over to the stage and there was the main man, Chuck D, sitting on a road case behind the stage going over the set. I still get nervous around Chuck, I am just such a fan and I always feel like it’s 1988 all over again when I see him. Anyway, we went over what we were going to do and he basically said, “Whatever you want to do Scotty, as long as you’re loud!”

That’s never a problem for me.

PE went on and I was standing next to DJ Lord watching them tear through Public Enemy No.1, Welcome To The Terrordome, Prophets Of Rage, Don’t Believe The Hype, Show ‘Em Whatcha Got and then it was time for Bring The Noise. We hit it HARD!!! The crowd was nuts, a sea of jumpers and Chuck and Flav matched them step for step. I got to rap the 3rd verse sandwiched by Chuck on my right and Flav on my left. To get to rap this with them is always surreal for me. I am not a rapper, but I know that song and when I’m on stage doing it face to face with PE it’s adrenalizing.

It was all over too fast and next thing I knew I was back home telling my 2-month old all about it.

He farted.

Cheers,
Scott

Hmmm, let’s see, well I played some guitar, did some catching up on my reading and oh yeah, I GOT TO BE A FUCKING ZOMBIE ON WALKING DEAD.

OK so here’s the scoop…

My agent got the call asking if I wanted to come down and get made up to play a zombie in a webisode for AMC’s Walking Dead directed by Greg Nicotero (effects GOD, check out the resume: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0630524/). I couldn’t say yes to this fast enough. Like I said in my Tweet, I’ve been wanting to do this my whole life. Zombies have always been my favorite genre of horror and to participate in something as killer as Walking Dead would just be amazing.

Truly my Make A Wish moment!

I got to the set and headed straight for the makeup trailer. I was told I was getting the full-on zombie “hero” makeup. That means I get the sick head/neck wounds done with silicone appliques. Garrett Immel was doing my makeup, he’s one of the top dudes doing this on the planet. He explained how there are the main “hero” zombies, then the second tier background zombies which are more just makeup and blood and then there are the third tier background zombies with just makeup and if it’s a night shoot, they wear masks that read well on camera. Makes sense, they couldn’t spend 90 minutes each on 500 people every time there was a zombie crowd scene.

Garrett told me he had my picture for a week so he already knew what he wanted to do to me. I told him to not hold back, make it as brutal as he wants. The whole process was pretty painless, even sitting for 90 minutes was cool because they were putting zombie makeup on me. I would’ve sat for 5 hours, I was so stoked. I’ll post a wide range of pics showing the process from start to finish.

The only weird part was putting in the contacts. I’ve never had contacts in ever, I can barely put drops in my eyes. The lens specialist put me right at ease and directed me each step of the way, “look up, look left, blink” etc and they were in and it was like looking through the eyes of the dead. Well, it was kind of cloudy anyway.

Next was making sure I could convincingly walk like a corpse. I just did what felt natural, started with a broken ankle which would cause me to lean, let my arm swing like dead weight, head forward, blackened teeth (Black Tooth!) gnashing. I showed my walk to zombie pro Joe (didn’t get his last name) and he approved. He said I looked dead! No walking notes.

No zombie faux pas (typical rookie mistake would be arms up like Frankenstein). I guess I am just genetically wired to play the undead. My scene was next and Greg gave me my mark and told me what was going to happen. Basically, the lead is coming out of the house with two kids running into the street and they pass right by me. I turn and track them and then shamble off after them. We got to do the take about six times and after each one I was cheering out loud. I wish we could’ve done it 100 times. I was so focused on one of the little kid actors, staring at him and thinking “I am going to eat your fucking head off you little fucker.” I think the kid could feel my malevolence towards him because he kept looking at me nervously and hiding behind his “mom.” Sorry kid, I was into my role!

After I was done (wrapped as they say in the movie biz) Greg told me I did great. That meant a lot considering the movies he’s been a part of, Evil Dead 2 Army Of Darkness, Day Of The Dead, and of course Walking Dead. The man is the best at what he does and I’m just glad I didn’t fuck up his shot.

I kept the makeup on after the shoot and headed home. I got some great looks from people in other cars. I wanted to keep the makeup on all week!

I got home and fed my 8 week old son. His reaction was basically, “yeah, whatever, feed me ugly.”

I followed Garrett’s instructions on how to take the makeup off by getting in a hot shower and scrubbing with some towels until finally an hour later I was dezombified. It was an amazing day and I can only hope I get to do it again and next time get to eat people!!!

Enjoy the pics.

Cheers,
Scott

I was going through some old photo albums yesterday and I found my World Series tix from 1977.
My dad took me and my bro, we had seats about 25-30 rows back on the 3rd base side. $10!!! That’s amazing.

My brother Jason and I both grew up huge Yankee fans so going to the series that year was like going to Mecca for us. Game 6 is the famous game where Reggie Jackson hit 3 home runs. The Yankees won their first World Series since 1962 and the fans went wild!  Back in those days the fans would storm the field at the end of the series and my brother and I ran for the fence by 3rd base to hop over and run around the bases with the celebrating multitudes. We got to the small fence and were about to grab ourselves a piece of Yankee infield when we saw a guy at 3rd base getting pummeled by cops and their nightsticks. My brother and I, 12 and 9 years old looked at each other and decided to stay put behind the safe confines of the fence, our vantage point close enough to the action without losing any teeth.

This brings me to Sept 14, 2011 when Anthrax will be playing Yankee Stadium with the Big 4 and I’ll finally step onto that hallowed ground along with 50,000 of our friends.

It’s going to be amazing.

Cheers,
Scott

Good morning my friends. I say morning even though it’s 1PM because when you’re on my son’s feeding schedule 1PM is morning.

Over the weekend I tweeted a bunch of “vs” scenarios; Lemmy vs Keith Richards in a drinking contest, Capt Kirk vs Capt Mal and lastly, more dangerous, fast zombies vs slow zombies.
Most of you were on the slow zombie team and you are correct.

Before I get into this I’ll preface with this…

All disbelief is suspended.

The scenario is the dead come back to life and other than that miracle there’s no supernatural powers at work. They are dead bodies walking (and eating).

The factor that no one took into account is the fact that these are dead decaying bodies. Slow zombies will decay at a slower rate therefore enabling them to shamble after you a lot longer than fast zombies. If a zombie could run, it would be destroying connective tissue, ligaments, muscles etc much faster and soon they’d be incapacitated. Remember, all disbelief is suspended.

So in the short term, fast zombies may be more dangerous but they will burn themselves out quickly. Like the old tale, it’s the turtle that wins the race.

More zombie news soon.

Cheers,

Scott

House of Anthrax. Church of Metal. Metal Church (HA!), Our Lord of Thrash, Holy Brothers of Heaviness…I’ll be here all night, try the veal.

But seriously folks…

This is from the shoot we did in Toronto a few weeks back when we were there for the Heavy TO festival. We were cranking Jesus Saves from Slayer in the church!

I’ve been doing interviews for European press all week and the reaction to the record has been fucking great. It makes me even more excited for all of you to FINALLY HEAR WORSHIP MUSIC!!!

Stay tuned next week for announcements regarding the record, the next song on iTunes, a 30th anniversary celebration in NYC and how you can go to it and my thoughts on the lyrical content of the record. I’m going to break it down for ya, start anyway.

Check back here Monday morning for the next installment. Bookmark it, “Like It” on Facebook, retweet it, etc etc.

Have a great weekend!!!
Cheers,
Scott

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