Interview with Rex.

April 13, 2008

Graham Finney, Planet-Loud.com

Just before their recent show at the Brixton Academy, Planet Loud sat down with Rex from Down to talk about the band, life in metal giants Pantera, touring the world, drugs, music and much more.

Planet Loud – Thanks for your time Rex, how’s it going?
Down – It’s going pretty good thanks. A little tired. Ha! We’ve had to change bus about four or five times and we’ve been broken down on days off but we’re doing okay. We got to sleep last night which was nice.

Planet Loud – How has the tour been upto now?
Down – Amazing. As usual. We’ve been playing three nights on, a night off, three nights on and it’s been getting better every night. We’ve just been feeding off the crowds and the vibe and it’s been good. With Pantera I used to hate coming over here and playing these big places and then we’d be done and all you’d do is drink yourself to death and I don’t remember a whole lot from those days. It seemed like we didn’t enjoy coming over but, this time, and, I think, even the last time when I was still drinking, coming over here was really enjoyable.

Planet Loud – Brixton must hold some interesting memories for you because it was one of the last UK venues, if not these last, to ever see a Pantera show. How does it feel being back here?
Down – I think we played two nights here, yeah. It’s kinda funny being back here because I was walking up the stairs and I can’t remember what room it was in but it was one of these rooms and Brian May from Queen showed up and it just fucking floored me. It knocked me out. Some good memories of this place but I haven’t been down on the stage yet so I’m sure I’ll have another flashback then.

Planet Loud – That would have been one of the last ever Pantera shows right?
Down – Yeah, shit, it probably was. Man, we toured so much that everything is just a haze for about twenty years.

Planet Loud – You’re going to Europe after this, are you looking forward to that?
Down – Yeah, we’re going to Spain which I’m really looking forward to. I’m going to spend another week over there after we’ve done Spain, just me and the wife. I love Spain man. I’ve never seen the whole of it. We’re going to spend a bit of time just doing a tour around Spain so, hopefully, it should be good weather. I wanna get out of this cold weather.

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