BHW: (laughs) Yes, like I AM a really spiritual person and whenever I write it s bound to seep int

Brian HEAD Welch (he got the nickname years ago when his friends joked his head was too big for his body) has scaled the heights of rock stardom in ways many artists only dream of.  As a  founding member of KORN he spearheaded a new way of approaching the guitar as an instrument economy rent a car and is in the top 30 of GUITAR WORLD s greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time.  In the 1990s Korn rose to the very top of touring and recording acts and have sold over 25 Million albums worldwide but in 2005, following the release of  their greatest hits album, Brian quit the band.  His addictions came close to ruining or even ending his life and Brian credits a spiritual awakening as the only thing that could rescue him.  He has written a couple of acclaimed books, released an album with his new band HEAD and is currently recording a new release with producer Jasen Rauch (Breaking Benjamin, RED) while promoting his latest single Paralyzed .  I d heard lots of things about Brian s new pursuits and new music including economy rent a car how he s gone from Freak on a Leash to Jesus Freak but I personally found him to simply be an incredibly open minded and interesting guy.  Read on .
Brian Head Welch:  It s been good, the shows have been amazing and people have been very cool.  It gets hard sometimes, it can be a grind just because I ve basically been on the road for two decades between Korn and solo.  The crowds have been getting more familiar with what to expect when they come see a HEAD show, as far as we do our new stuff some Korn stuff that I always love playing.  It s really fun when you know the fans are getting more familiar and coming out to see your act versus just seeing you based on who you re touring with.  It makes it much more alive, and after all those years of playing in KORN and seeing crowds go absolutely nuts, it is an adjustment sometimes when the crowds are still feeling you out or standing still or whatever.  It s awesome when they are there to go crazy.
economy rent a car LRI:  I have to be honest, I am just getting familiar with your solo stuff as well and of course compare it to KORN like many people will but I really, really like what I am hearing.  It s got the same heavy guitars economy rent a car but everything is dosed out with a certain amount of melody and the songs are really memorable, as memorable as the Korn hits.  I really wasn t expecting such melodic vocals.
BHW:  Thank you John.  Melody is beautiful, we really like that.  I love melody.  I ve been trying to find this sound since I left Korn between the sound we had and that music  I wrote then and the music and sound where I am now.  It s really been fun to hear how it s changed over the years but it still has plenty of the familiar guitar sound and heaviness.
LRI:  I know that there was much notice made of your finding God and that you ve even written economy rent a car a book and done some music that lyrically touches on some of that but this new music seems to be a little more mainstream lyrically, is that accurate?
LRI:  I think there s a place in the world for Slayer and Stryper and don t really have a problem with either but it s probably economy rent a car easier to reach people by just meeting them somewhere in the middle (laughs).
BHW:  (laughs)  Yes, like I AM a really spiritual person and whenever I write it s bound to seep into my music but I think this new music is really economy rent a car easy for ANYONE to relate to.  I m really just writing about normal human things, not trying to push an agenda or relate to only ONE type of person.  We re all just people and I think the cool thing about writing personal things economy rent a car about your life is that people can take the lyrics and apply different meanings to them.  One person might have a totally different interpretation of a lyric than another and that is perfect. economy rent a car It could mean something totally personal economy rent a car and special to me and something 360 degrees opposite to another person.  That is how art SHOULD be.  I am totally down with that.  I am getting a lot of cool feedback from the old KORN fans which is amazing.
LRI:  I know.  The first time I met you and Munky was sitting on a couple of road cases backstage at Ozzy ironically.  You guys were starting to break bigtime but were opening on the OZZMOSIS tour and I had no idea who you were.  We just hit it off and immediately started talking to you guys about OZZY for a while after my friend nudged me and goes Hey, those are the guys in the opening band .
LRI:  It was in Madison, Wisconsin.  I was a little embarrassed for thinking you were roadies or something when I saw the crowd of thousands go bonkers as you went on.  I do also remember you warning me not to bug OZZY while he was in pre-gig jogging suit mode. (laughs)
BHW:  Dude, early on it was just surreal.  I had the guy plastered on all of my walls as a kid.  I used to draw him John (laughs).   The very idea of being invited to be on a tour with him was totally surreal.  Like you said, I couldn t believe that I could just see him back there walking around (laughs).  I used to try and go backstage all the time as a kid, you know?  That s why we felt the same way you guys did being back there.  The idea of me being backstage economy rent a car with Ozzy was just awesome.  After the years went by and Korn got bigger and stuff got crazier it was a little sad how that became less and less special.
BHW:  Yeah, and that sucks but I ve started getting some of that excitement BACK over these last few years since quitting drinking and getting sober.  I would turn into an ass as the years went on and the drinking and drugs and fame escalate but then as you give that garbage economy rent a car up you start rediscovering all of your passions and the way you USED to feel.  When I met you in 1994 on that Ozzy tour I was still wide eyed and it was a wonderful opportunity and memory.  When you get sober, you are basically getting ressurrected and I find that I can get stoked about stuff like that all over again.  It s really cool.
BHW:  I think it was just starting to barely seep in.  It took another two albums before we just became absolutely massive and BLEW up.  We put out Life is Peachy and it was put out so quickly that I think it was good but not as good as the debut album.  It did make a big splash on the charts at #3 and had some really strong songs on it that ended up being signature tunes but I think it could have been better.  We had some definite buzz but there were still some shows that were less than packed or whatever until we got towards the end of that tour and got on LOLLAPALOOZA and things just went nuts.  We were on tour with TOOL and on MTV and in press constantly and it all just set up perfectly for the next album to come out REALLY swinging.  Everything was starting to click and make sense as far as the band breaking wide open.  That third album was when we just got totally huge and I was like I just don t understand how this is happening or why we re so big right now .  That s when things started getting crazy, sometimes TOO crazy.
BHW:  Totally John.  I did and I know for a fact that I can speak for the other guys in Korn and say we ALL enjoyed that growing period much more than we did when we actually reached the top.  It was just so much fun and we were just hungry kids trying to do our thing.  Our band was just our whole life, nothing economy rent a car else mattered but the music and the band.  It was SO incredible to be a part of that build process because we were just a bunch of kids who were all friends who were just laughing and drinking beers.  Everything was FUN and nothing was difficult or forced.  Once we got to that upper, upper level and millions of sales that was when it just seemed like the problems started and the band started to wear down or break down a little bit.  It sounds cliche or weird even, actually it WAS weird but that s what happened.
BHW:  Right.  The drugs and also just the pressure of being on top like that started to ruin us.  We didn t game plan for any of that,  it was like What do we do with all of this attention?  how do we act? and all of that.
LRI:  It was sort of shocking economy rent a car to the fanbase and I m sure your bandmates in Korn when you announced you were quitting but I think it was sort of inevitable and understandable given the fact that you were lost in addiction and trying to raise a daughter.
BHW:  Yeah.  I really enjoy the music stuff we did, I really, economy rent a car really love the tunes and the music end of it all.  I m really stoked that we accomplished as much as we did musically and I love it, I STILL love hearing and playing that music.  It was really economy rent a car cool to have been a part of that whole part of Korn.  I just personally think back to some of the stuff I did back then, the way I treated people and the things I did and I am really, truly sorry.  Some of the things I did to people, to myself even, were just horrible things to have done and that s what I am ashamed of, not the music or the guitars that me, Fieldy and Munky did.  I m proud of the whole band musically, all of us, including Jonathan who really was on some other level with his performances but SOME of the lyrics, even back then I was like Why are we singing about that?  We could be trying to sing about something more deep or more real, ya know?   Having said that, I will totally admit that MOST of the time I LOVED what he was writing and coming up with AT THAT TIME.  He and all of us were just doing what came naturally to us as angry, drunk kids.  That s all we were.  On the surface economy rent a car we were laughing and having a good time but all of us had our issues and the lyrics of those early Korn albums were really an outlet to express some of that anger and issues we had.  Jonathan knew better than anyone how to tap into that angry place and let it all out.
LRI:  I remember economy rent a car when the first album came out that the cover art was a little shocking.  The whole child predator vibe to it with the little girl on the cover.  Was that ever an issue with the higher ups at the label?
BHW:  Not really John.  It kind of went along with the theme of the album. economy rent a car Lyrically, a lot of t