MACHINE HEAD Bassist Opens Up In Revealing New Interview
Holland’s FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with bassist Adam Duce of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD. You can now watch the chat in five parts below. A few excerpts follow.
On going to reform school during his teenage years:
Adam: “I didn’t like it. I wasn’t having fun. You know what?! I had some fun, but for the most part, it was people telling you what to do. I don’t like people telling me what to do. I never have. I don’t like it now. [laughs] But sometimes that’s just what you’ve gotta deal with. I found out from the second reform school I was in that they will try and break you, they will try and make you think what they want you to. And you have an inherent truth inside of you — inside of everybody — that’s there. What the truth is for you is up to you — what you accept. I knew my truth and I knew that if I held on to it, I would get through all this shit and come out on the other side. And that’s what I did — I fucking just made sure that I didn’t fucking lose what what was right to me. And I came through it basically untouched — a little bit hardened by the way that you had to live in there, but…”