![]() ![]() ![]() Because there’s nothing going on in the music business, it turned into big news. He dropped a song the day before Christmas and then right before New Year’s. Let’s break all the rules since we’re an independent band and we can break all the rules and do whatever the hell we want. So, we were coming up on Christmas and I said you have two weeks to put this record out and then I have to get onto some other stuff. I told Drew, the music business closes by December 1st, really by Thanksgiving it’s shutting down. I will say this – we wanted to get it out by the end of the year. It’s like a clown tiptoeing through a graveyard of fun surprises. The new EP is coming out on the Friday that we’re on the boat (January 27th.) We put an LP out in October 2021 and what’s interesting about this is we have our friend Violent J from Insane Clown Posse guesting on a couple songs with us, collaborating with us. This amalgamation of all these genres coming together and somehow, we created our own sound. It’s this eclectic breed of alt-rock/hair metal/thrash metal and maybe nu metal because of Fear Factory. Listen to our brand new single “Risk Machine”! - The Lucid January 10, 2023īut suddenly, in a COVID world, anything made sense. It was kind of like a lot of things during COVID – you were just kind of making random calls and calling people you wouldn’t normally call because in a normal world, it wouldn’t make sense. We hit up Vinnie from Sponge to sing on it. That band came together through our guitar player, Drew Fortier, who was in Bang Tango for a short while and our drummer, Mike Keller (Raven/Fear Factory), who were writing some songs during COVID. I have been listening to your new band, The Lucid. I thought you were going say drink more water. Phones are off, WIFI is down and you can just let loose, check out and go on vacation. Once we set sail, just kiss the world goodbye because we become our own yellow submarine out there when we’re sailing on ShipRocked. People are coming in from all over the world where it’s cold as hell, ready for a vacation. If you were to give people advice on how to prepare for the cruise, what would you say? Photo Credit: Amy Harris/The Travel Addict I remember there was a moment where we were up in the church sanctuary of the boat – it was me, Frank Bella from Anthrax and Wolfgang and we were in there going over backing vocals and this moment hit me and I was like, is it okay we’re going over “Runnin’ With the Devil” in a church? That was definitely a standout moment. Some of the guys in Metal Allegiance tapped Wolfgang to come up and jam a few tunes with us. That year we did the first Van Halen album top to bottom and ironically, we get on the boat and Wolfgang (Van Halen) was playing bass for Mark Tremonti on the boat. I remember playing the cruise with Metal Allegiance. She’s such a powerhouse singer and can just be one of the guys. She gets on the stage and the room changes. Another one, I remember as a Stowaway, a couple of the songs we played were with Lzzy Hale from Halestorm, who is just awesome. We kind of brought Pantera up with us, they were sort of a half generation behind the big four – Megadeth, whatnot – so we took them out on the road in ‘92 which helped kick their campaign in. On one of the ShipRocked cruises, I was on there with Hell Yeah, so it was great to hang with Vinnie Paul. We caught up with the legendary bassist to discuss his favorite thing about living in a resort town, his new creative endeavors, how to prepare for boarding the ship and his preference for pets.ĭo you have any favorite ShipRocked memories? Photo Credit: Amy Harris/The Travel Addictįans of Ellefson can catch him returning to ShipRocked, which will set sail January 22nd-28th, as a Stowaway. The new EP from The Lucid will be released on January 27th, 2023. Their eponymous debut came out in 2021.įor the next two years, the band brewed up more music and most recently collaborated with Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J on their single, “Saddle Up and Ride”, which was released last December. In the height of the pandemic, the Scottsdale transplant created a new project, The Lucid, with singer Vinnie Dombroski (Sponge), guitarist Drew Fortier (formerly of Bang Tango) and drummer Mike Heller (Malignancy/Raven/Fear Factory). For three decades, David Ellefson toured the world as the bassist of Megadeth.
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