During a recent conversation with Metal Voice, former W.A.S.P. guitarist, Chris Holmes, discussed the use of backing tracks while performing with W.A.S.P. back in the ’80s, moreover, he mentioned the reason he was against it:
“I’ll never use tape. I would rather not sound as good or whatever, like the record. When we started sampling, that would be ’88, ’89, ”The Headless Children”, because Randy (Piper) was gone, and whatever the choruses had to have… People didn’t understand. W.A.S.P. was doing it then. I hated it. […]
“I hated that because it’s not real. It’s not from the heart. It’s not what you do on stage. I was against it.”