In a recent chat with Revolver Magazine, Max Cavalera spoke about working on Sepultura's 1987 record Schizophrenia - particularly about how he began working with guitarist Andreas Kisser. Check it out, and be sure the read the full interview here.
HOW DID ANDREAS KISSER WIND UP IN THE BAND?
We met Andreas in São Paulo. He was playing in a band called Pestilence, and they were a thrash band. I saw him play and he totally kicked ass. He played great leads and could do all this Randy Rhoads stuff. So Jairo suggested we try him out. One show before Jairo quit the band, we were in São Paulo and my roadie got sick and couldn't come, so Andreas was my roadie for that one show. He'd tune my guitars and hand them to me. So I always teased him. "Yeah, you started as my roadie, man. Don't forget that."
DID YOU CLICK WITH ANDREAS RIGHT AWAY?
Honestly, man, the very first time I saw him I didn't like him at all. Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money. We had holes in our shoes and fucked-up clothes. The first time I saw Andreas he was riding in a convertible car with two hot chicks. And I'm like, "Look at that poser motherfucker!" He had long hair and shades. It looked like he was in Mötley Crüe. We're death-metal guys. So we were like, "That guy's a poser. Fuck that guy." But he ended up moving from São Paulo to Belo and was living with me and Iggor. My mom pretty much adopted him as a third son. For a while there, we all got along great.
CLEARLY, YOU GOT OVER THE INCOME INEQUALITY THING.
When we got to know him, we realized he's an all right guy. But he never understood where we came from. Andreas always had a nice house, good family. He always had money. He had cars, rich girlfriends. We never had rich girlfriends. All the chicks hated us. But when he joined the band things changed. The long hair and the leather pants made us look cool and it clicked. And on the music side, it was huge because he could really play.
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