Tetragrammaton

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Teneratin First of all, I'm very blessed, and I keep the company of the most amazing people.

I've always known this, but when you lose some friends, you start taking a good look at life.

And then, you know, like with Joey, I try to explain to people, you know,

because people are really hard on me with Joey because, you know, we separate it, you know,

the band.

And, you know, but human beings don't know the story.

Real friends don't tell it because of love.

And you get older, you start recognizing it. No one in my career has really like stopped me and asked me what the album cover was or why this. You know, I'm not trying to force it down anybody

anymore, you know.

I never was, I just love art.

And that was my job, was to be this, like, visionary sort of, you know,

Paul Gray, the bass player who I started the band with, you know, he always said I was going

to change the face of metal the way it looks, you know? And you did. I didn't recognize that until he was gone. And with Joey, you know, I didn't recognize how great he was and how blessed I was to be in his presence because I was like, yo, you're late. You know, I carried your drum set up. Don't do it again. I'm going to kick it down the stairs.

You know, he's like, I'd like to see it. You know, we were bros. You know, I wasn't. And you were kids. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not stopping. Like, I knew his double bass was sick. I knew it was better than anyone. I know the sex of his fiddles, you know, like they're just sexy and romantic and have so much feeling.

It's not even like a technique.

It's like some sort of, hey, here's a silk handkerchief.

You know, and you're just like, oh, I feel.

I feel good.

So my job has always been to take what I do very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very serious.

Yeah. Almost too serious because. What's too serious? It's hard to say. Too serious is for the norm.

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