TESTAMENT Guitarist Eric Peterson - "A Day Late And A Dollar Short... But At The Same Time, Pretty Lucky"
May 14, 2012, 12 years ago
TESTAMENT's Eric Peterson recently conducted an interivew with Dave Reffett of Guitar World, an excerpt follows:
When Testament was first coming up, what was it like going from a lesser-known band to a huge success? Did it feel like it happened overnight?
"Looking back, I always say we were a day late and a dollar short on some of our fame. But at the same time, we were pretty lucky. I was in high school and I started a band - and that band is this band. I just got lucky with people and I think what I was playing and what I made up, and I wasn't following the trends.At that point, everybody was dressing like IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST. Almost every band looked like that, and everybody had names that were EXCITER or METAL MANIZ or all these trendy names copying your favorite bands or whatever.
That's when I was like kind of trying to do my own thing and I was incorporating GBH and listening to MOTÖRHEAD and THE SEX PISTOLS and trying to mix it with metal. It wasn't until when my friends were in a band called RED-HOT or something stupid, they got this gig and said, 'We’re going to play with this band from LA and they are really killer. Can you help us roadie tonight?' I was like, 'Alright.' So I went to check them out and it was a band called LAAZ ROCKIT and a band called METALLICA."
To read the interview in its entirety, click here.
Testament will release their new album, The Dark Roots Of Earth, later this year.
Their next concert is scheduled for July 31st in Italy. To view the band's complete tour schedule, click here.
