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Anthrax were thrash metallers who loved hardcore hip hop. When they joined fellow New Yorkers Public Enemy on vinyl, rock and rap met with explosive results. Then they took it on the road\u2026<\/p>\n
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Bring The Illinois: Anthrax & Public Enemy (L-R) Frank Bello, Dan Spitz, Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Scott Ian, Charlie Bernante and Joey Belladonna. Chicago, Illinois, 1991.<\/p>\n
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A nthrax guitarist Scott Ian recalls genre crossing, the destruction of Madison Square Garden and a hitherto unknown secret about the recording\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cI was already listening to a lot of rap when I met Chuck. We met at the Def Jam offices in New York City because I knew people who worked there and I was always hanging around their offices. Run DMC had already exploded and it was an exciting time. I heard the first Public Enemy before it came out because someone at the label played me the tracks and it blew me away. I\u2019d started wearing PE T-shirt on stage and Chuck heard about this and came to see us when we played the Beacon Theatre in New York [in November 1987], and I suppose it was a case of mutual admiration so we kept in touch.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was my idea to cover [Public Enemy\u2019s] Bring The Noise. We were finishing off the drum tracks for the Persistence Of Time album [in late 1989] when I told [drummer] Charlie Benante that I\u2019d transposed the song. He heard it and said \u2018This sounds fucking awesome!\u2019 so we cut a version and put it on a cassette. I sent it to Chuck so see whether he\u2019d sing on it. He said he\u2019d have to run it by Rick Rubin. He called me back said that Rick thought it was a band idea because Public Enemy had already recorded the track on It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back [released in April 1988] so it would be redundant. I just told Chuck to play the tape and, when he eventually did, he loved it.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen did we record with Chuck? I cannot tell a lie so I have to tell you that Chuck and Flavor Flav never came into the studio. We got their vocals from [the master to] Bring The Noise and sat there without sampling technology and cut them into the track word by word until we made it work. I\u2019ve never told anybody that because nobody\u2019s actually asked when we cut it together. It took forever and our version was in a different key but in the end we were even more stoked with the results because it was so great. Doing it before sampling had exploded kinda meant that we were ahead of our time.<\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pull-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#111111″ header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pullquote-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#111111″ header_3_font_size=”38px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cThe planets did align when it came to making the video because we had a day off in Chicago and PE had a day off so they flew up and we had an amazing day. At that point I turned round to [our manager] Johnny Z and I said \u2018We should take this on tour.\u2019 It came together quite easily and we went out [in September 1991] but the idea of putting a metal band out with a hip hop band was a risk.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the States we were playing colleges which wasn\u2019t where we were used to playing. The supporting acts were the Young Black Teenagers and Primus so it was a varied bill. Public Enemy would come on and, at times you could see the dividing line between our fans and theirs. But we knew we\u2019d made the right decision when we got to Madison Square Garden and we did Bring The Noise with Chuck and Flav and the place looked liked it had been destroyed by the end of it when the pit went from 100 to about 1000 hardcore metal heads.<\/p>\n \u201cGoing to Europe was the next step and Brixton Academy was the final show of the run. We knew that would be amazing because both bands had a hardcore audience. I think in my mind, I had this odd idea of selling metal records to black teenagers all over the world but in the end the audience was 90 per cent white\u2026 which was still the biggest black audience we\u2019ve ever played to!<\/p>\n \u201cI do think we lost some of our hardcore audience who turned around and said \u2018fuck you!\u2019 after those shows because we weren\u2019t metal enough anymore. I understood that audience because I used to be that guy! But I also think we left a massive footprint in the cement that meant it was OK for musicians from different musical worlds to collaborate. Are we the fathers of rap-rock? I hope not, but I do hope we opened some doors that helped people think differently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1055407478-scaled.jpg” title_text=”‘Bring The Noise’ Video Film Shoot” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n What Time Is It?: Flavor Flav and Scott Ian perform on stage during the filming of the video for the song ‘Bring The Noise’ Chicago, Illinois, June 25, 1991.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n PE\u2019s jester Flavor Flav recalls universal love, the power of his clock and breaking down barriers.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cBring The Noise was already a huge a record for Public Enemy. You\u2019ve gotta remember that it was one of the first records to contain a lot of noise. Nobody else had such noisy records. Even with our first record, Public Enemy No. 1, that was like \u2018Drrrrrrrrr\u2026 nrrrrrrrrr\u2026 drrrrrrrr!\u2019 Then when we came with Rebel Without A Pause the world went crazy! We were the first group to really put out records with samples and we changed the style of music a lot.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was such a big honour to have Anthrax remake our record. It was important because it showed musical unity, just like Run-D.M.C. did with Aerosmith. Y\u2019know, you\u2019ve gotta mix it in and mix it up. It made a very, very big impact and it\u2019s still one of the most talked about records when anyone mentions Public Enemy.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me tell you something: it was real fly the day we shot the video in Chicago. Oh my goodness. Yes, Flavor Flav is an adrenaline junkie. They had this big platform and right below there was this big plastic cushion that we were stage diving off. Everybody dared me to stage-dive and I\u2019m like \u2018Yo, I\u2019m doing it anyway!\u2019 The thing I liked most was changing places with their drummer Charlie. I didn\u2019t know what they were trying to do until I saw the video but I loved the way it flickered in and out at the end.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pull-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#111111″ header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pullquote-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#111111″ header_3_font_size=”38px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cHey, Anthrax were the bomb! We had a lot of fun out on the road. Some days I would ride on their bus to the next city and I gotta say Anthrax were a group of good guys. When you watch Anthrax in concert it\u2019s just constant energy, constant energy, constant energy\u2026 their music is bangin\u2019 for the whole show and they pack the house. I couldn\u2019t wait to run out and grab the mic for Bring The Noise. If you watch videos of us together you\u2019ll see Flav dancing around with his boy Scott, but I was all over the stage too. That\u2019s Flav. Flav moves all around, he doesn\u2019t stay in one spot.<\/p>\n \u201cAlmost every night was a good show; just pure electric energy. The crowd going crazy to give us energy to go crazy\u2026 oh man! We locked the last night at the Brixton Academy. Word up. I\u2019ll never forget that. That\u2019s where I discovered the power of my clock. When I stepped out onstage everybody was wearing clocks and I\u2019m like \u2018Oh shit, I did this? Wow!\u2019 I was shocked about the impact that we\u2019d made.<\/p>\n \u201cThat tour really broke down barriers between fans. Anthrax fans were definitely receptive to Public Enemy, but so were a lot of Public Enemy fans to Anthrax too. Y\u2019know, that\u2019s how music works; one hand washes the other. I\u2019m really glad that everybody now is recognising the universal love within music. You can take all different kinds of music cultures, put them together in one big giant festival and you won\u2019t get one fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This article originally appeared in issue 254 of MOJO<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-names” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u00a0Interviews:<\/strong> Phil Alexander and Andy Cowan Images:<\/strong> Getty<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthrax and Public Enemy bring the noiseAnthrax were thrash metallers who loved hardcore hip hop. 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I hope not.\u201d<\/h2>\n
Scott Ian<\/h3>\n
\u201cNobody else had such noisy records.\u201d<\/h2>\n
Flavor Flav<\/h3>\n