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If you really need an introduction to who Exodus are, you need to be slapped.
Phil: First off, the fans reactions to the new material - do you think they prefer the older material or do you think that they're into the new material just as much?
Rob: Of course they like the old shit; they've been listening to it for twenty years, you know what I mean. But they're pittin' to the new shit just as much as the old, but they know the words to the old shit a lot more, but they're coming around. I mean, people are screaming along with me the whole set, so it's working out.
Phil: Now what is it like to become a member of one of your favorite bands?
Rob: (laughs) It's kind of surreal, actually. I've never been asked that question… it's actually fucking cool, you know what I mean? How could it not be? So yeah… good question. (pauses) It just feels good, man. (laughs)
Phil: Can we expect a new live album somewhere down the pipe, since it's been nine years since the last one came out?
Rob: Yeah, I would assume so. I'd love to do one, you know what I mean? I think we will eventually. I think we're working on another new record before we're there, you know. We spent the last ten months becoming a band on the road, so it's kind of like now we're a little more seasoned, like we've been playing together more so it's more of a band than when we made the last record ("Shovel Headed Kill Machine"). We weren't really a band, you know; we were guys that got together and had a vision and put something together and then became a band, which is rad, but I think the next record is going to be really strong… I'm just stoked. I can't wait to do that one and then worry about a live record after that, I think.
Phil: Are you planning ahead for the next record already or is it one of those things where you're just going to sit down and write it together?
Rob: I think Gary and Lee have been writing and I've had ideas lyrically and the kind of direction that we want to go, I think we've all been anticipating what's going to happen when we stop touring and we sit in a room together and we start writing. I'm sure everyone has their own vision of what's going to happen and then completely throw that out the window and do whatever comes next, you know what I mean? (laughs)
Phil: Now I know the band has a DVD of the "Tempo of the Damned" release party (for sale on the website); are there plans for a career retrospective DVD?
Rob: I don't know. I've never even seen the DNA one, so I don't really know.
Phil: Okay, are there any plans for a wider release of that?
Rob: I don't know, man. You're asking the wrong guy - my manager would be they guy to ask that.
Phil: Okay. How was the Australian and Asian tour?
Rob: Oh, it was killer. It was my first trip to both countries, so it was really, really cool. The fans were awesome; they were completely insane… Thailand was crazy. It was really cool just to be in those countries, for me. The fans were great - they knew the words, which is really impressive. They knew the words to the new record, the new record is doing well over there, I guess, so it was cool.
Phil: Being that the band has been around in both of metal's so-to-speak "boom" periods, what do you think was the worse scourge upon the metal scene - the Hair Metal or the Nu Metal?
Rob: You look back on Hair Metal, man, and it gives me the douche chills watching it, you know what I mean. I don't know what we're considering Nu Metal. Personally, I don't listen to it, so I don't really know like what is considered what. I listen to a lot of obscure music that is absolutely not metal, but I don't listen to radio, I don't follow trends. I've been listening to a lot of Miles Davis lately and a lot of dirt rock, a lot of old Stones and just different music, man; I don't really follow trends, I never have. But looking back on it, I would say Grunge killed metal. (laughs) Hair Metal had nothing to do with it 'cause Metallica's the biggest band in the fucking world, so… nothing killed it, I guess, really. They did. (laughter)
Phil: Okay, back to the more obscure stuff; what else do you listen to?
Rob: Comedy. I have tons of stand-up comedian CD's and I watch a lot of cartoons, man. Music… I get stuck in CD's; I'll listen to the same CD for two or three months. I've been listening to "Bitch's Brew" for months now; it's the only thing that's been in my play list. In the mornings, I've been listening to my tour manager Ross'… his music list is killer, so I've been coming out and listening to all his tracks; he's got the Stones in there, some Jeff Buckley and just weird shit that I never get to hear; Early Man, Three Inches of Blood - I've been listening to that every morning when I wake up. I listen to a lot of different stuff.
Phil: Well, I think that's about all I have actually, so thank you very much!
Rob: All right, man.
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