Why does nonpoint drummer sit sideways

It's been just an outstanding tour when it comes to playing the shows and hanging out with them. All the other crap we dealt with is completely different, but it's been great. Robb : "Well, we still go through the things — that's the thing. There's no 'easy' here. We're still struggling with so much crap. Like I said, the commitment the guys have with each other and the shows outweighs all the other stuff.

I am completely annihilated exhausted right now. I'm so mentally tired. Because we just got here [for that night's show] late.

We got here late today — not because of a breakdown, but because there's a DOT [Department Of Transportation] law on the bus where our bus has to be shut down for ten hours… It's been nothing but stress when it comes to logistics. Robb : "Decisions we've made in the past.

We've learned. If I knew then what I know now, I would have been in such a different position in life — financially, mentally. Whoever says it's not a job can kiss my ass right now, honestly.

I don't give a fuck what you think — this is a fucking job. You come out here and do this. There's no 9-to-5 that can compare… Here's the thing, though: there's an advantage. If I had a 9-to-5 [job]… Your kids go to school. You see them, what? Maybe forty-five minutes to an hour in the morning? You come home [and you] see them for two hours.

So you basically see your kids for three hours a day. Which, I understand, that's hard on the people who work 9-to Like my sister-in-law, for example, she works in Chicago. She has to take a train to Chicago and she sees her daughter maybe two hours a day. It's tough for a mother. And I feel so bad for her. But when I'm in this position that I'm in, I'm home for two months all day long, so I get to see my kids more than the average father.

Which, that I'm very thankful for… I've had so many people tell me, 'Ah, this is not a job. I don't have insurance. I don't have a sick day. I don't have vacations. I can't call in sick. Our fans see it, they see what we do. I remember Morgan Rose of Sevendust after he saw us last year saying I think you guys throw down harder now than you did when you were younger.

I never expected anyone to ever say something like that. You know when you get older you get slower. The energy level is still the same. Butcher Babies have the same thing, they are awesome live. Actually everyone on this tour Sumo Cyco , Islander and Cane Hill had to withdraw due to an injury to one of the band members alike, everyone offered tremendous live energy.

TRBC: You have an unorthodox style of sitting sideways on the stage. Is there a particular reason you do that or was it something that you just decided to do? RR: First of all, let me say that doing that has been the biggest curse of my career.

It got so overwhelming that I just tried to kill it with a different answer every time. I lived in Puerto Rico at the time and they were touring there. I mean he was part of the show. You could see his feet; you could see everything he was doing. I basically just ripped it off. I think, once on Shiprocked you setup sitting forward and it threw me off guard.

And when I play sideways, they ask why do you play sideways? They usually say yea, how did you know? I simply say, because people ask me that every day.

TRBC: I want to thank you for your time. RR: Yea go to www. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did putting it together. So that is the way I learned to play drums. The band was called Cardinal Sin. They were a metal band from Puerto Rico.

I was amazed to be that close to live music and I wanted to be a part of it. What really closed it out for me was seeing the reaction of the people that were there and everyone singing along. You could say that I was completely sold. Years passed and I was finally playing in my first band. Instead of playing the drums, though, I was playing guitar.

I had always thought I wanted to play guitar and but fate had other plans for me. I was still living in Puerto Rico and played the local scene there for a while. I joined a Christian thrash band called Sekel and got myself a Tama kit, and we took that island on a ride.

We got to be quite a big band, because the island is not that big so it was easy to establish an amazing following. After Cardinal Sin, who were one of the bigger local bands at that point, moved to the U.