Does it have anything to do with the ‘skull on black background’ album cover [for Oceans Will Rise]?
TF: All our album covers are essentially something on a black background. That’s always been there. QRO: Homage to Spinal Tap’s Break Like the Wind… TF: Actually, it’s the black album by Metallica. It’s more 1991 Metallica – actually, what we’re hoping to go for more is 1988 Metallica, on the …And Justice For All tour. When they were at their height of rage. QRO: You’ve just started your tour… TF: We’ve been doing a lot of one, two, three, four, five-offs. Our real touring actually starts in October, when we’re going on tour with Kings of Leon. From a month ago until then, it’s a lot of sporadic, intermittent, coming-and-going. Which is frustrating, because I really want to be somewhere were nobody knows me. We never leave far enough away from home to not know anybody these days. There’s always people on the guest-list, friends, and family. It’s the kind of thing where I want to be where nobody knows me, personally, on a tour. QRO: Do you guys still have that big Winnebago? TF: That’s
