Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersak remembers “cringe-inducing” time supporting Mötley Crüe
nme.comBlack Veil Brides has recalled the “cringe-inducing” time that the band spent opening for Mötley Crüe while on tour.The frontman opened up about the experience in a new interview with Joshua Toomey while on the Talk Toomey podcast.
During the conversation, Biersak looked back at the time that Black Veil Brides supported the iconic ‘80s glam group while on their 2012 tour.While it was something he and the members were looking forward to, the actual experience saw them greeted with less of a positive crowd response than they expected.“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,” he began (via Blabbermouth).“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 [Germany], and after the first song was done, it wasn’t booing, it was total silence, like strong, arms crossed, angry silence,” he explained. “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.”Biersak continued, recalling that the cold response from the crowd led to him telling the band’s drummer [Christian Coma] to immediately go from one song to the next to avoid the awkwardness.“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,” he said.
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