KIRK WINDSTEIN Will Be Sitting Down When CROWBAR Starts U.S. Tour With EYEHATEGOD
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CROWBAR frontman Kirk Windstein has revealed that he will be "sitting down" when he and his bandmates started their U.S. co-headlining tour with EYEHATEGOD later this week. The trek, which will kick off on August 7 in Orlando, Florida and wrap up on August 31 in Pensacola, Florida, will include a performance on the Rocks Off Concert Cruise on August 14 in New York City.
On Tuesday, August 5, Kirk released a video message in which he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Hey, this is Kirk Windstein from CROWBAR here. [I'm] super excited for the upcoming CROWBAR/EYEHATEGOD co-headlining tour. It's gonna be amazing.
"A little quick bit of info. I have sought medical attention both at the hospital and through my chiropractor, who I really love, and I either have, at the worst, a bad sciatica flare-up or potentially a ruptured disc in my lower spine. I don't know either way, but, well, I don't call in sick. I'm there to give y'all a hundred percent and please the fans the best I can. So I'm probably gonna have to start this tour, which begins Thursday in Orlando — a sold-out show, by the way; thank you all — I'm probably gonna start this tour sitting down, but we'll be singing and playing top-notch the best I can do. I can't walk right now, and that's the truth. I've got a cane, I've got a walker, and I've never had this kind of pain in my life. I'm 60 years old, and I've never had this pain in my life. But anyway, I think positive; I don't think negative. So it's gonna be great, and we're gonna kick ass every night. So thank y'all so much.
"Get your tickets," he added. "Shows are selling out quickly. And let's go rock with CROWBAR and EYEHATEGOD and do this thing. Thank you all."
In a 2020 interview with Kerrang! magazine, Windstein said that he finally addressed his substance abuse issues around 10 years earlier. "I started drinking at home instead of going out to bars, because it was easier for me to avoid cocaine if I didn't go out to where it would be," he explained. "I erased all the dealers from my phone. I quit drinking hard liquor for the most part, but I had a little hangout room where I would watch sports, play guitar and drink beer. Before that, I would go to a bar, not realize how I'd got home, pass out on the couch and wake up with two bags of coke. Then, of course, I'd go to the store to buy beer, because if I've got cocaine, I've got to have beer. And vice versa — if I went to a bar, I'd have two beers, then I'd be calling a guy trying to score. It was an ugly thing to go through, but they say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and I really do believe that to be true."
CROWBAR released its most recent studio offering, the critically lauded "Zero And Below", in April 2022 via MNRK Heavy. Produced, mixed, and mastered by Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording And Production in Metairie, Louisiana, "Zero And Below" was the band's most unforgivably doom-driven record since their 1998 landmark effort "Odd Fellows Rest". Led by riff lord and vocalist Kirk Windstein, with guitarist Matt Brunson, bassist Shane Wesley and drummer Tommy Buckley, songs like "Chemical Godz", "It's Always Worth The Gain" and "Bleeding From Every Hole" are unapologetic emotional outpourings, with a bare-knuckle resolve alongside its soul-searching vulnerability, reliably delivered with crushing heaviness.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
