In a recent conversation with Scott Itter of Dr. Music, former Accept bassist Peter Baltes mentioned the reason he left the band, saying he was “extremely unhappy” toward the end of his four-decade tenure with Accept.
Regarding this subject, Baltes said:
“The statement that came from the band literally five minutes after I announced that I’m leaving [back in November 2018], that I wanna spend more time with my family, well, that wasn’t true. No, no. I was extremely unhappy. And I found out a few things. I’d been in the band forever, and I found out in the end, in this incarnation of Accept,
”I wasn’t even really a member; I was a hired gun. And it’s these things that come out where you don’t have any input, insight, and you start getting bitter. And there’s no reason to, but somebody else’s ego is just so big or whatever, two of ’em, that it just takes them there, and they just need to control everything and have everything and you name it.
”That’s what got Udo (Dirkschneider) out back then, and I think in the end it hit everybody. So I was the last one standing, but I couldn’t stand it anymore. I needed happiness in my life, and there was no happiness there. It was just a dead horse. So I left after the tour. And in my case, it was the best I ever could have done.”
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