ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello has posted the following road journal at Fender.com:

"I think I found a sure way to make money in Europe—open a laundromat. For the past couple of days throughout Croatia and the Czech Republic, I’ve been walking around with some of the crew trying to find a place to wash clothes because I’m wearing my last clean pair of underwear. After today I was going to have to go commando, something that’s not fun at all because the last time I did that, there was this whole chaffing thing that began down there.

So, after seemingly endless hours of walking and rejections, we finally found somebody connected with the show who took pity on us and brought the clothes to her home and cleaned them with her own washer and dryer. Whoever you are lady, my boys say, 'Thank you.'

Aside from the laundry fiasco, the shows continue to be amazing. Since the last time I wrote, we’ve played Croatia, The Czech Republic, Schloss and Germany. We even played at two different festivals in one day. Believe me, when I got up that morning at around 8:30 am, still fuzzy and hurting from the night before, I remember whining to myself that it definitely looked better on paper than actually getting up to play so damn early, but it all turned out great. The first show of the day was The Devil Side festival in Duisburg, Germany, where they billed the show as Breakfast with Anthrax at 11:00 am, so we went on stage dressed in robes and brought coffee machines and toasters to get into the vibe. Amazingly there were more than 12,000 people there for us, all totally awake and into it. The next show of the day was about a three-hour drive to Dessel, Belgium for the Graspop festival, where we went on around 7 p.m. in front of more than 20,000 people. Thankfully, it was another great show!

The cool thing about playing festivals in Europe, aside from the great shows and fans, is that you get to hang out and catch up with some friends from other bands who are on the bill."

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