Being in a touring band is weird. For weeks on end, you and four of your mates are crammed into a bus where you all eat, sleep and piss. Shenanigans and batshit stories are bound to be born from such a scenario.
Few tour stories are as unhinged as the one of and guitarist Willie Adler’s soiled jeans, however. The tale goes thusly: during the early days of the Virginia heavyweights, a drunken Adler gets up in the middle of the night and pees on vocalist . A fight ensues, which bassist John Campbell and co-guitarist Mark Morton join in on, until Blythe throws Adler down, the guitarist passes out and tempers calm.
Once Adler wakes up, it becomes apparent that he’s...
voided himself in his jeans, and he reacts by legging it into nearby woodland to dispose of the soiled garments. We know this anecdote because Blythe narrates it in a short film on the 2004 Lamb Of God DVD . The clip, entitled and embedded for your enjoyment below, proceeds to show the vocalist returning to that fabled forest years later, presumably during the tour for 2003 album .
The spot has apparently become a hallowed one for the band, as Blythe admits he’s returned “three or four times” and always digs up the legendarily shat trousers. The camera follows the singer among the trees and, sure enough, it doesn’t take long for the sullied pantaloons to be found once again. Blythe first notices one of Adler’s abandoned socks, which he notes as having gone through some “discolouration”.
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