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Topic: Away on Blacky in new interview
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FantasticPlanet
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posted March 15, 2003 17:18
    
This is from Blabbermouth:VOIVOD fans hoping for a reunion of the band's original — and most celebrated — lineup are unlikely to get their wish, according to drummer Michel Langevin (a.k.a. Away). "Unfortunately we don't really get along with [original bassist] Blacky," Langevin told Metal Update. "He is the one who will never be back in the fold. I know that it would please the hardcore fans and everything, but it just won't happen. The circumstances of his departure were really hurtful. It has a lot to do with childhood friendship and broken trust. I don't think we can patch it up, actually. It's too bad. It really got to the bottom of the barrel with the 'Angel Rat' recordings. We were not too sure about the final result of the album, but our approach was just, 'Okay, let's keep going and next time we'll do better,' you know? But it didn't happen like that with Blacky, and the way he left the band was really, really awful. But it's something that we never discuss in the press and it's an obscure part of the VOIVOD story. It's just that the breakup was so sour. With Snake it's different, the way it happened was on friendly terms and it was different circumstances. I know that Blacky really, really hates 'Angel Rat' but we just thought back then, 'Well, we'll do better next time, let's keep going.' You fall, you stand up again and you keep going. "Some parts [on 'Angel Rat'] were written to be huge, like the song 'Angel Rat' and 'Freedoom' and stuff like that, but it came out a little too soft because of the production. But we tried. [Producer] Terry Brown was a gentleman and it ended up that his sound was not appropriate for VOIVOD, but hey, it was done and there was no more money to put into the project for a remix or anything like that. I think the smartest move would have been to tour for that album and make a better one after that, but Blacky didn't feel that way. There is always more than one reason for somebody to leave a band, and some of his reasons I will never know. It's in Blacky's head." WHATEVER, LET FUCKING BY GONE BE BY GONES. IF YOU'VE BEEN FRIENDS SINCE CHILD HOOD THEN YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FORGIVE. This whole thing is annoying, Jason won't be in Voivod for the long haul.
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posted March 16, 2003 18:35
posted March 17, 2003 04:35
