During recent interview with Joshua Toomey of the Talk Toomey podcast, BLACK VEIL BRIDES frontman Andy Biersack reflected on the “cringe-inducing” experience of opening for a legendary rock act more than a decade ago.
He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):
“It’s an interesting thing, because those bands that are these iconic bands, it’s very rare for the opener to have any kind of positive experience, regardless of who it is. We toured with MÖTLEY CRÜE in soccer stadiums in Europe, and I thought, ‘This is the greatest thing that’s ever gonna happen to us.’ And I’ll never forget, the first show was in [Warsteiner Hockey Park in Mönchengladbach, Germany in June 2012], and after the first song was done, it wasn’t booing, it was total silence, like strong, arms crossed, angry silence.
Andy continued:
“And you’d almost prefer them boo at that point, because if it’s 20,000 people and you can see them all be dead silent, it’s more unnerving than hearing at least some noise. So it would happen after every song. And so I’m the singer, I’m the M.C., I’ve gotta like, I got to say something. So I just started saying to our drummer C.C. [Christian Coma], I go, ‘Just go into the next song as soon as this one’s over.’ We basically played a medley of our songs because we would never stop between the songs ’cause it was too cringe-inducing to have to deal with the silence. We were coming off stage early every night on that tour, which a lot of times the production people for those big tours love it. So at the very least they liked us.”