“On the inside we are all fifteen-year-old boys”: Lzzy Hale on what it’s really like to tour with Skid Row
Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale has revealed what it was like to tour with Skid Row, and it seems the band are not opposed to the odd innuendo or fart joke.
Hale fronted the band for four shows after the departure of vocalist Erik Grönwall last summer, and having been a Skid Row fan since childhood, it was a pretty big deal for the vocalist and guitarist.
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To not only have a great time playing music with a band but to also click with the group backstage is exactly what every artist hopes for when stepping into another camp, and Hale fitted in just fine with the Skid Row bunch.
She tells Classic Rock, “I got to know Rachel [Bolan] and Snake [Sabo] as people first before we ended up gigging together. I’ve been a Skid Row fan since I was eleven, just trying my damnedest to hit those high notes. When they asked me to be a part of it we were at a mutual friend’s birthday party, and it got brought up over cake.
“The thing that I discovered was when we were on the bus together, it doesn’t matter how old you are on the outside. On the inside, including myself, we are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant,” she admits.
“We were making all these Spinal Tap jokes about the meat in catering. They’re like, the meat is so sweaty. I don’t know why it was so funny, but this sweaty meat came up a lot, and then that ends up being a dirtier and dirtier joke. I’m so grateful for them accepting me into their camp and for allowing me to be a part of that.”
Following the announcement of Hale’s temporary appointment as vocalist for the band, she described it as “full circle”. She told Loudwire Nights, “I’m a weird in-betweener. When I was 11 through 13, I was into ‘80s metal, like Cinderella and Skid Row and all of that. But I was also getting into nu-metal in the early-2000s, Disturbed and Sevendust and Tool. The crazy thing about Skid Row is that they were the ones that carried me through over that bridge.
“They had the big choruses and everything, but then they had those later albums that were very present with the times and the weird, seedy underbelly that was the ’90s. They bridged that gap for me.”
Halestorm are currently on tour in support of Volbeat. You can find out more or grab tickets via the Halestorm website.
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