Bad pillows, rap festivals and a ‘sh*t-shelf’: Life on the road with Robb Flynn

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn lifts the lid on the highs, lows, creature comforts and tour-bus weirdness of a travelling band… Warning: Lots of poop talk. The thing I have to have on tour is…​“My own pillow. Believe it or not, hotels in other countries sometimes have the craziest pillows you’ve ever fucking seen in your life. Sometimes you’ll get to the hotel and it’ll just be a round, hard cylinder. Other times it’s literally just a flat pancake. I’m not sleeping on that, so I bring my own pillow.” The longest journey we’ve ever made for the least reward was…​“Well, on the Unto The Locust tour cycle in 2012, we did a festival run that went on for three months straight. We made $2.8 million dollars… and we spent $2.8 million. We came home with $4,...

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