I gotta tell my Peter Steele story.
Friend and I drive down to Biose, ID to see them during the "Life is Killing Me" tour. They were not playing any Canadian dates and we later found out this was due to Peter physically assaulting some guy who was with Peter's exgirlfriend.
Get to the venue early, my buddy who does not mind being a pain in the ass starts asking if any of the guys are around, talking to staff, looking for road crew etc. 10 mins later someone comes out and asks if we came from Canada and says Peter wants to see us.
He invites us to sit down backstage on some couches we we bull#### for almost 2 hours, he told us about working for the city of Brooklyn and how we really wanted to be a underwater welder/diver/bridge inspector, stories about their label at the time RoadRunner, songwriting, programmed drums, etc.
A couple times some girls came in to say hello and we basically got up and started leaving and saying goodbye, in that deep voice he told us to sit down and stay a bit.
Asked us what we did for work, genuinely curious about who we were, I was stunned by what a personable and incredibly friendly guy he was. What an insanely talented guy, what a personality and what a character. I'm still sad he's gone and I won't be able to buy a new Type O album on release day.
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