Former W.A.S.P. guitarist, Chris Holmes, was recently interviewed by Guitar World where he shared the only regret he has regarding W.A.S.P.
Here’s what Holmes said:
“No. The only regret I have is that I wish I had known how the business works in terms of publishing. I was never told about any of that. When records were done, nobody said, ‘Chris, we have a meeting to split up the publishing.’
”Randy didn’t write, [drummer] Tony (Richards) didn’t write, and so the only person they had to keep out of that was me. It wasn’t until I got a little older that I found out the stuff that was going on behind my back. That’s the way it is. I can’t change the past; I can only worry about the future.
“Actually, the other regret I have is that I should have b*tched about the second album. When Blackie said, ‘It’s gonna be me on the cover,’ I should have said, ‘Well, if it’s gonna be you, then I should leave.’ Because it’s not a band at that point, which it wasn’t.
”But I still stayed like an idiot and did whatever. I didn’t even want to play on the third album. I just went in and did my thing, and I was gone. We weren’t even friends at that point.”