Earlier this year, Pentagram’s Bobby Liebling went viral after footage of a zoned out live appearance surfaced online. Now, during a recent interview with Altars Of Metal, he discussed his newfound fame, describing it as “wild.”
Liebling said the following:
“The whole thing flipped me out at first. It was pretty weird. I always had this dream of maybe someday I can have a post on Instagram or Facebook, and it will be viral. And it was like… Jesus, wow…Careful what you wish for, because it kind of blew up more quickly than I expected it to for damn sure. But it was pretty cool, you know? And it’s really fun, though, playing music for over half a century and then becoming famous for being a joke.”
“The band’s profile went through the roof immediately, which is pretty obvious that it would. And we got stopped in airports by TSA people, and we’ve gotten stopped on planes by pilots coming out of the cockpit to say hello, and soccer moms in the airport and groups of little kids and stuff like that. It’s pretty wild, man. I really didn’t know how to react, and I still kind of don’t because everywhere we go, it’s someone [saying], ‘Aren’t you that guy?’”
“When it happened, we were actually on tour already, and so the sales didn’t really increase or anything because the places were sold out, actually, when we were doing the West Coast tour, which is when it came about. And then the South American tour, which was mostly sellouts too.
So I don’t know how it really bolstered the situation of the attendance, but I do know the ‘seeming popularity’ – and Lord knows why – but it went through the roof. It was a trip. People are clawing, trying to get through crowds. And you got police escorts surrounding you to get to a van when you leave a gig. It was wild, man. It still is.”
[via Ultimate Guitar]
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