As previously reported, Chris Holmes (ex-W.A.S.P.) recently launched a GoFundMe campaign amid his battle with prostate cancer. Now, the guitarist has shared a new update, thanking fans for their support.
Holmes said the following:
“Hey everybody. It’s Chris Holmes here. I would like to take this moment to thank everybody… I’d like to thank everybody who’s donated to my GoFundMe very, very, very much. It’s helped me. It’s actually given me a prolonged lease on life , ’cause it’s helped me through my cancer thing. I don’t know what I would’ve done if I couldn’t get the money to help me through this. I could’ve got the radiation. I don’t know if I’d have finished whatever. I just wouldn’t have the money. But I appreciate everybody who’s helping me more than you ever… And in the next, depending how long I last, and when you ever see me here and there, come up and tell me you donated to me, I’ll give you the biggest fucking hug you’ll ever imagine. I’ll give you the shirt off my back, okay?
I’d like to know if you could still help promote the GoFundMe, ’cause I haven’t reached the goal that we’ve been looking for. We’re about 20% [away from reaching the goal] — we’ve made 80% of it, [with] about 20% to go. I’d appreciate it if you help promote it on your websites or whatever. If you could keep pushing it. It gave me a little bit of lease on life. It’s helped me get to pay for all the things I need to do. I take this stuff called hormonal therapy, [which] makes me really sick. The last two weeks I just went through probably one of the most sickest times I’ve ever been in my life. I thought the throat cancer was bad when on chemo, but something happened in my — not my, after my stomach, my gizzards, I lost all the good and bad bacteria that’s in there because of radiation. And then when I drink water, it just went straight from my stomach right out my rear end. I could’ve sat on the toilet and drank it, and you could just put a cup under my butt and it would’ve just filled right back up. [Laughs] It was sad. Dysentery would’ve been beautiful to have.
But I’d like to thank everybody who’s put money in this. From the deepest of my heart, it’s helped me to get through this, all right?
I love you very much. Please help promote this just a little bit more so I can maybe make the whole 100% of the goal. We got 20% more, okay? Thank you very much, and I love you for it, okay?”
[via Blabbermouth]
During an appearance on Laughing Monkey With Shawn Ratches, Possessed’s Jeff Becerra offered an update on the band’s new album. He says “all 10 songs [are] recorded, but they’re just scratch tracks.”
Becerra said the following:
“We have all 10 songs recorded, but they’re just scratch tracks. So now we have to go over the scratch tracks and re-record the instruments and the vocals.”
He also expressed interest in releasing new material more frequently:
“My plan, if all goes right, if I can work out this method of recording where I’m not having to go into debt for 20 years every time I make an album, if we can do that and we can make it efficient and quality, then I’m just gonna try to pump one out every year. So next September I hope to be in the studio again, and the September after that I hope to be in the studio again… And that’s only because I feel like I’ve got a system now. I’m really, like, feeling like I’m in the pocket. I’ve got the band I want, and I just really am absorbed into the lyrics and the creation process, and it feels like I’m just coming into my own.”
He also added the following about keeping his original sound intact:
“There’s really no rhyme or reason [to how I write music]. I just write what I feel. And I’ve been lucky enough to have kind of a unique sound. At the risk of sounding like I’m tooting my own horn, it’s like when you hear Motörhead, you know it’s Lemmy. When you hear King Diamond, you know it’s him. When you hear Possessed, you know it’s me. And it’s hard to have a unique sound.
What I tell people is, like, they say, ‘Well, how do you you be original?’ I say, ‘Well, there’s only one of you. Just be yourself. Don’t try to be somebody else, and that unique individuality will come out in your music.’”
[via Blabbermouth]
Puddle Of Mudd have premiered a new video for their song “Win Win Win.” That track is from the band’s latest album “Kiss The Machine.”
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