Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal Director Rick Ernst On NUCLEAR ASSAULT Stagediving Mishap- "I Connected With The Floor As Opposed To Some Hands"
May 20, 2009, 15 years ago
Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal director Rick Ernst is featured in a new interview with Harry Guerin at Dublin-based online magazine RTE. An excerpt is available below.
HG: During the director's commentary on the DVD you talk about the show you went to where you stage dived and hurt your back.
RE: "We went to see NUCLEAR ASSAULT at a club in Brooklyn. I forget what the song was, but they had these great mosh parts. I jumped up on stage, did a flip and expected that somebody would be there to catch me. I connected with the floor as opposed to some hands. And I remember bouncing back up at the time and I distinctly remember this excruciating pain in my back. I couldn't sit down and I had to lie on the back seat on the way home. Fortunately, a couple of days went by and I was 'better'.
But then years later I realised I was having some back problems and I went to a chiropractor who said: 'Wow, your spine is so bent out of shape, you must have fallen off your bike or something.' I was like: 'No, I'd no such accident.' Then I went: 'Wait a second, there was this time at a Nuclear Assault show...' If I was ever in a band that put an album out I could show the x-ray of my spine as a fold-out. I was really very fortunate because I could have broken my back and been paralysed."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
