2009.07.02
Staind and Halestorm on groupies
Here's something I couldn't get in the story I wrote advancing the Staind and Shinedown show happening Tuesday. Look for the story in Saturday's Extra. Meanwhile ...
Four hard rock bands. Three male frontmen. One female singer/guitarist, already regarded as a rising metal sex symbol.
Note to male groupies thinking of face time on Tuesday at the “Stimulate This!” tour stop in Roanoke: Watch your step.
Not that Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale minds the male groupies so much.
“We’ve seen some crazy fans, but a lot of times, I just appreciate the fact that they’ve gone three, four hours out of their way to see a 30-minute show,” said Hale, whose band opens the four-band show at Roanoke Civic Center. Staind, Shinedown and Chevelle round out the bill.
“That’s crazy, but at the same time, I’m a little nuts for doing what I do, so much respect.”
But the more experienced road warrior — Aaron Lewis, frontman for the headline act, Staind — is more than a little suspicious of male groupies.
“The difference between a female groupie and a male groupie is that a female groupie wants to fantasize about having sex with your or having your children,” Lewis said. “A male groupie wants to like make a shirt out of your skin and put it on.”
He shortly attempted to mitigate that statement, saying he was attempting humor, then backed it up, using the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott as an example. Abbott was murdered in a nightclub in 2004, shot repeatedly by a man over what he saw as Abbott’s role in the breakup of metal music behemoth Anthrax.
“It was a male groupie of Pantera that killed my dear friend ‘Dimebag,’” Lewis said.
