Machine Head's Robb Flynn on Self-Destructive Past, How Therapy Helps: Rise Above, Ep 4
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- In Revolver's series "Rise Above," artists open up about the personal and creative adversity they've faced and reveal how they turn such struggles into art. In episode four, Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn opens up about his self-destructive lifestyle - including drug and alcohol abuse, fighting, cutting and bulimia - leading up to 1997's 'The More Things Change ...,' which led him to seek help in therapy the following year. "It's the type of thing where unless you really want to do it, it's useless to do," says the singer. "You gotta reach a point in your life where you've reached such a low that you do it. Because you have to change." See him recount how therapy and the experience of "peeling the onion" influenced the lyrics to Machine Head's 'The Burning Red' LP, which, in turn, inspired many heavy, important conversations between Flynn and fans who connected with the songs. "It was like a struggle we have both gone through," he says. "It was this thing we had both survived."
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Robb Flynn, my favorite songwriter. His music has gotten me through so much, especially “Damage Inside.”
I spoke to him once around 2011 at the “Unto The Locust” listening party at Paul Booth’s Tattoo Studio (which was gorgeous btw). I told him a very painful story about a time one of my oldest friends & classmate Of mine had died earlier that year from a drug overdose.
We were into the band together and had seen them twice together. It was one of the few bands we loved together.
I gave Robb his funeral card in tribute to my friend & he gave me a huge hug. I’ll never forget that. He stopped drinking for a second and took a second to listen.
Thank you Robb. 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻
Shout out to Rob Flynn for sharing his life experience with us it's not easy saying those personal things about yourself especially to the world, he seems like he's turning into a strong man thanx Rob Flynn
I'd like to elaborate on what Robb says @ 3:00
don't take Robb's low point as a reference for yours. You don't have to be a functional alcoholic with autodestructive tendencies to go to therapy. Maybe it's depression, maybe self harm or substance abuse, only you know what your lowest point is, so please don't think that because you haven't had Robb's hard life you shouldn't seek help.
I really like this series, please keep it going!
Well said!
My thoughts exactly, that exact part made me think the exact same. Even if it's not seeking help but that light bulb moment of 'this is shit, I can't do this anymore, I DON'T want do this anymore' and making that step to change that whatever way necessary.
Agree 100%. I think people have their own personal hell. Whatever it is, when u feel truly empty of hopeless, that's the bottom. U gotta choose to get out of it or the bottom will give out and then your even lower.... the worst part is the majority of people don't actually know this feeling where nothing can be made right and the black cloud looms over your life. It's tough man. We all need to be more understanding of people.
I saw him extremely wasted right after he got off stage . It was during Supercharger tour at The Galaxy in Santa Ana CA. He could barley stand or talk. Later on that night I was probably in the same condition. The Burning Red helped me through a lot. Every Machine Head song has helped me see music or life in a different way. I'd like to meet him again some time. He seems like a cool cat.
recently started going to therapy after putting it off for a short while. this vid gives me comfort. especially after the shittiest of days... ur still my hero rob.
I love this man, such an inspiration to me.
@Jeff Dick I don't see how he's a social justice warrior. Please give me an example.
@Jeff Dick Additionally, I was for the most part talking about his skills as a musician.
@Jeff Dick Dick by name...
not gonna lie,wanting to make yourself throw up after 25 shots seems reasonable
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
I had a fucked up childhood and sometimes those memorys come creeping back luckily my parents aunts and uncle's introduced me to heavy metal and that has helped alot today i have come to terms with those devils and demons
I didn't have the best childhood my dad was an alcoholic I was raised by my mom and grandma. I had to grow up fast when my kid sister was born because I had to watch her while my mom worked 2 jobs. To this day I have hard time trusting people because my dad would make promises when I was young and end breaking em. I was bullied for years into school, Have I overcome it yes and no my dad finally quit drinking when I was 13 the bullying stopped when I got into high school but sometimes that little black cloud opens up.
I can relate to what he is saying, and probably gives the best advice to those of us who are broken.
I love this series, they really help, please keep them coming
Thanks for posting this gem of a moment in life in our lives
This should have been so much longer. I feel like this could and should have gotten into much more detail. Awesome little interview.
Right on Robb!
You should be Proud of yourself brother!
I grew up allover the Bay Area, Hayward, San Leandro, Oakland, and Castro Valley.
Came from a home that wasn't a home, folks cheating & beating on each other, I did the ol' escape from Alcatraz trick and made a dummy out of pillows on my bed, put headphones over one, blasting Ozzy/Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden into the pillow, put all my "Metal gear", spiked wristbands & microphones, etc., and out the window into the streets I went so I could "try" to be in a garage band, b/c my folks hated Metal, they thought I was possessed and was gonna turn me into Tipper Gore, The P.M.R.C and dumb shit like that, just for my Love for Metal.
The hotel parties, the beach parties (some even nude ones), the house parties where you're thankful you made it thru the night and woke up, then scratch your head in disbelief looking around like "WTF"?. Not so proud of it, but it was that misfit, Metalhead way of growing up. Metalheads seemed to unite and be more like family back then..MORE, because of the Era, the times it was back then.
Now older and more noble, Metal IS the drug or alcohol. It takes more Strength and balls to fight an addiction, to be sober, and Still be Metal..it's Not the spikes, leather jackets, hair or rebellious partying that makes someone a Respectable Metalhead or Metal Musician, like the Pantera "It's where you come from", like the MachinefknHead song it's "The blood, the sweat, the tears" or beers depending how ya roll.
Our music IS Power!
Metal Forever! Oh yeah, Please bang your head til' the grave, it's worth a bad neck or back! 🤘🏻💀
Make it all count for something!
Metal Horn salute Robb!,
keep kickin' ass!
What a good upload... thank you very much for this!
Nice to see a Robb F. video. 😃
If you don’t follow his podcast, you should! Not only does he get great guests, he shares his personal life with us each podcast.
Rob you made me smile the first time I heard Burn My Eyes! I think your a legend! Cheers for making me feel better when I was shitty and pissed off, metals my happy music, so thankyou!
Robb Flynn, you are a metal God!! such an inspiration
Salute!greetings from KK Sabah Metal fans,Malaysia🇲🇾🇲🇾🤘🏼🤘🏼🇲🇾🇲🇾🤘🏼🤘🏼🇲🇾🇲🇾
My english level is very poor but I can understand many parts of this enterview. You Rob are awesome musician and I respect you so much. It feel you are a big human and your music blow me my Head since MH come to my country in midle '90. I still enjoying you magic art.
Regards from Argentina
Let’s talk about how Robb barely aged especially since 2003. The only thing that changed was his facial hair. His voice never aged either.
Yeah he looks good for his age totally. He’s like 54 years old now - doesn’t look older than 35-40 to me. He’s like Kirk Hammett or Myles Kennedy - all pushing mid 50s but looking about 15-20 years younger
@@Grimeyhoob Kirk doesn't look younger than his age, lol
I predict a catastrophe your mother definitely looks
Older than her age. Lol
@@Grimeyhoob dude u ok?
I predict a catastrophe dude you ok?
Robb you are the greatest we love you and keep being strong ❤💙💚💛
Head up bro you are an inspiration
Whoa! Deep stuff. After listening to this, I can understand the latest album a bit more.
Therapy is only effective if you recognize yourself doing these things
If you poor your heart out at therapy and then go straight back to the distructive behavior it serves no purpose..
and it won’t fix anything..
Keep pushing on Dude. Life is hard.
Everyone has there own cross to carry !!!!self infliction is a type of therapy I met rob he is down to earth ,everyone has had douche moments ,own it ,live and learn and love metal in all its many glorious forms!!!
Therapy.... I love it and am blessed to have the best therapist. Haven't used any s*** since 2018 and totally quit smoking cigarettes and weed by 2020. Peeling back the onion layers IS brutal and crying is okay. It gets rid of all of that toxicity that's built up.
Just know Robb, you are loved.
Huge inspiration 👍
To this I would say thanks!
As part of it has translated into music and part of that reached me and probably many others
Flynn is clearly a troubled and broken guy. some of you shouldn’t be so judgmental on him
Obviously as you can see my profile picture and while I adore the shit out of the guy, I think he could've controlled his recent actions by shoving his political opinions so far up maybe what happened two days ago wouldn't have happened; that is the band breaking up.
Robb Flynn is a super opinionated and strong character. When you are opinionated then you will also attract the ire and hatred of those who disagree with you. The world and similarly the metal community - has not evolved to a point where people can respect opinions which differ from their own. That explains the hatred towards Robbs opinions, especially on divisive topics such as criticising Phil Anselmo, who is considered a metal god. The metal community is extremely protective of its heroes, even if it means turning blind to their obvious humanly flaws and vices.
When Flynn started name calling his die hard fans because they weren't liberal douchebags like him, ended his bands career. Making a whole video telling his fans to kneel in a stand against racism was the last straw for me. Must have forgot about his song "bow down to no one".
@@leopardcubpupkryky6940 Trump lost. stop having kids with your sister
Heavy Metal music and Machine Head in particular have helped me a lot in my life to deal with a lot. Big shout out to Rob for being open in this interview AND in his music! Some ten years ago I saw MH perform in a rather small club in Germany. I was having a blast head-banging in my wheelchair (jup 🙂 ) when Rob pointed at me during the "Bulldozer" song saying: "You are the bulldozer". He probably does this with other hard raging fans too - which is fine with me. But I went home like "fuck yeah - I am" 😀
"Oh yeah, I walked the path of righteous many men had walk b4(...) so now I welcome you to the world that I lived in puking bile and hate (...) get wasted on self-destruct(...) It is all about the blood, the sweat, the tears, attribute to the strength for all these years" The remarkable tune from the burning red album despite the horrible looks at that time lol
Machine F@#ken Head.....
Thanks Rob....🤟😊😎
So... Therapy is the reason for Burning Red?! Hooray for therapy 🎉
Some people just can't accept the fact that they need help. If you try to push them you may make things worse. In the end they have to decide themselves to get help. Music, nature, my dog, and my own self analyzation is all the therapy I need.
everybody struggle in their own way
What a great f’n guy, he is the real deal!
Robb, if it's any consolation, we're all just trying to figure life out and having one hell of a difficult time trying to do so.
Im not trying to put spam on here, but i relate and so does the people on my fb page deadnutts music uk. Its all about how music can effect people in a good way, music can be a story of you're life. Thus for some, music has saved there lives. 🤘 Robb you're honesty is admiral. But look at Machine Head now. One of the biggest names in metal.
Yeah if I'm angry or something I listen to Slipknot or Machine head, I listen to them every day but it's weird how you can be angry listen to what most people call angry music and end up happy and smiling! Maggot for life!
Anyone know the name of the song in the background?
Erik Reyes sail into the black from their bloodstones and diamonds album
Also Behind a mask and Eulogy from the Catharsis album
This is testament that u can come back from a situation where u are fucked in 40 different ways. U may not feel cured but u can come out of the darkness or whatever u wanna call it. U can't let ur guard down tho once u come out of a dark chapter in life
whats the song behind the interview ?
Three songs, it's Sail into the Black, Behind a Mask and Eulogy
Been through the same shit I can relate......\m/.......
Love you
After 25 shots, my body spews automatically.
When you find out machine head is breaking up. 😭
Ironic. They break up and then this video happens :(
Glitch.x.Witch yes this tour coming up is a farewell tour
No, phil and dave are leaving the band. MH is not breaking up. Its a farewell tour for them.
Didnt like that last album one bit but fuck this man is an absolute legend
I hope Rob can get his shit together.
And you grew up at Merhills and Jaime's place in Hayward, I know I was there.
name of song at 1:05?
Behind the mask from the album catharsis.
What is the song playing in the background?
Sail Into The Black.
And "Behind A Mask"
Lexi Gold are you a doll?
And Eulogy
OAKLAND!!!!!
@Jeff Dick true but it is home and I wouldn't want to have grown up anywhere else
His first two machine head albums are fn awesome. BUT I got funked out at edge fest when they did the weird punk heavy stuff. At the end of the set he dropped his pants to his knees and exposed his yang yang. It was stupid.
After four incredible records Catharsis happened. It's quite sad that I even liked the more Nu Metal songs on the record than the rest.
Rest in peace machine fucking head
Music it's my salvation.👍🙏
i know how he felt....fell....man it sucks
Robb Flynn would Play a Great Role of Jesus, Whether If He's Christian or not!
Ummm, Jesus wasn't a Christian either, lol.
He is a atheist.
I'm sad that Robb has had these difficulties in life...never gives up on life Robb I love you 🤘🖤
Fuck Yeah Robb
what a great fuckin dude
Put on 1.75x speed and Robb sounds like he's back on the methamphetameeeeeeen and that's what happens when you balance life on a triple beam yo
R.I.P. Machine Head
wvusmc the split is sad i hope he keeps going thi
I never could quit drinking. And it can never be safrely menaged, no matter how hard I try, it always brings harm in a way or another. I am a totally normal person except for that, nowadays. I was a troubled kid, but I found my point of balance. Unfortunately, it came with this horrible price. Everything I've accomplished, all that is good in my life, everything I did right, all threatend by this fucking disgrace.
Rob is a pretty cool dude
Remember when the rock kicked Tyrese Gibson when he was down? This man kicked Phil Anselmo when he was down
Well that "kick" made phil stop drinking alcohol and phil already said that he was happy for being sober.
Any diagnosis mentioned? Remember seeing his show back in 1995 and just thought: what a narcissistic personality
sifting through maggots, indeed.
robb flynns the fucking real deal. lotta fucking posers out there he aint one of em
Don’t depend on your own understanding Robb. You’re a son of the most high that created the heavens and the earth he loves you! He loves all you fans that may not believe it but it’s true
I never live in the past
That's a pitiful look at what life is from your perspective there.
Life is better and does have a meaning and a purpose. Some people actually live life and have found it and are at peace regardless of the storms trials .
Mofo should have cleared the Anselmo thing up.
All narcissists are broken people who were not loved while they were in their developmental years. That being said, I do not have any remorse for narcissists as they are abusive towards everyone who is close to them, and theory states they always end up alone in their destructive cycle or they have a sucker who always takes care of them. Hence, Robb Flynn losing his band says a lot.
It doesn't have anything to do with remorse... he is communicating his journey out of the black.
A narcissist doesn't open up about his vulnerabilities like Rob does. He is a humble person trying to learn.
Also, the members have said they want to work on other projects, there's no beef.
Adam Duce said Flynn was a narcissist.
Mori, look up covert narcissism.
A TOOL!
Don’t insult Tool
@@mavisser3211 HAHAHA! Sorry he is your cuz.
Hey Rob, how’s that “shitting on Phil Anselmo” thing going?
Catapulted you to Stardom?
We live n learn....
Nope, now he's been shitting on his fans for not having the same political views.
Congrats on getting clean. Now, quit being a pooseee and pay homage to the great VIO-LENCE!!
😬😠😠😠😡
I farted to this
GOAT ŁØŔĐ VĘĮŃÝ I did too! I had corn in my underwear
ThePhilVideos I didn't know I had a round in the chamber...i had what looked like hearty beef stew..i can fart most of davidian...but the chorus gets me on the dangerzone
Love this guy. It took a lot of courage to call out Phil Anselmo(my favourite Metal singer) for his bad behaviour. I respect him so much.
😂😂 it doesnt take courage to be a social justice warrior. What would of been brave was if he actually did something about it when it happened instead of waiting years to bring it up and be a white knight when its safe because phils no longer in the same building 😂
@@preston2636 good point
He's a wussy, just like you.
Rob shave your beard and cut that hair and bring back 90's image.
BigBoss1982 I don’t care what anyone says, that look was badass
@@The_JustJoshing no he looked like badass on Burn My Eyes and on The More Things Change.
BigBoss1982 dude he had long hair and a beard for those albums. Just look at the album artwork
@@The_JustJoshing take a look at the video take my scars...
Booo!!@
If you want the answers and inner peace, then go with God
Bitch,please,stop it,this is not funny
Most self destructive thing he did was attack phil.....karma....
I've heard that. So there is truth to that rumor? I know he "suffocated" the guys in the band; so I'm curious about what you mean by attack.
@@RowdyGrunt can't blame other guys in pantera for stupid mistake phil made
Phil is a racist pos. Always has been. He was just easier to like before the heroin. Now, just hearing him speak annoys me. Phil has negative brain cells and is responsible for the death of Dime bag Darrell. I would pay to watch him publicly executed. Fuck Phil forever.
dude.. phil is a douche bag. I love Pantera and have seen them many many times but that doesn't mean Phil is great in any way.
guitar bang true
Machine head is a total rip off band. They sound like they stole every popular metal band from the 90s style, and jumbled them into there albums.
Hetfield copycat wannabe.
I farted to this
GOAT ŁØŔĐ VĘĮŃÝ I did too! Grew some corn.
I took a fat shit while watching this