![]() ![]() “For years I thought it was all these different kinds of things, couldn’t stand on the ego risers like I used to. ![]() And so I started freaking out, and so I didn’t know. So even though I was moving forward down the highway, it felt to me like it was coming at me, which means that I wasn’t actually moving, which meant to me I had no momentum. The problem with that is that if you ever come to a dead stop on a bicycle, what happens? You tip as you have no forward momentum. “So then I started feeling like, OK, think about this, you’re riding, you’re on a treadmill right so you have forward motion, but instead of what it looked like to me, instead of me moving forward, it looked and felt like I was on a treadmill. So the thing I mentioned with my ego riser moving, it wasn’t moving, and my back tire wasn’t moving either. If you can take riding a bicycle, for example, it’s terrible, that feeling. And I got an hour down the highway, and I suddenly felt like my back tire was doing this… which obviously it can’t. “But then I came home and I booked a motorcycle trip. I ended up meeting my wife on that tour and that’s why I can say that. ![]() And I don’t say that to sound cool, but that’s just what it was. #BORN OF OSIRIS FULL#So many people, so many drinks, drugs, everything full force, like women, whatever. We were on ‘Mayhem’ with Rob Zombie and Children of Bodom and Five Finger Death Punch, huge tour, and it was like our biggest meet and greets every day and probably our biggest partying every day too, so it was just all on 100%. “It was probably the peak of our touring schedule. Lee revealed his anxiety developed during Born Of Orisis' grueling touring schedule. I think it might have been called ‘Dare’ or something. When people get anxiety, when they start struggling with it, what seems to be more and more as time goes on… if I, if anyone can hear this and it helps them, sweet, because this is what helped me. And I’ll arrive at the point here, because you said evolutionary. “I’m telling you, mentally, physically I was in bad shape. Like you know the ego risers on stage? People will stand on them to get a few feet higher for the solo or whatever? I couldn’t stand on ’em because it would go like this: (makes shaking motion with hands) underneath me… but it wasn’t at all. “I had terrible terrible anxiety for like three years, crippling, and being an entertainer it was hell. McKinney explained how his anxiety developed, how he turned to the drug and eventually kicked it. While McKinney has mentioned his addiction before, these seem to be the most in-depth comments he's offered to date. ![]()
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