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ANVIL Frontman Doesn't Regret Not Joining MOTÖRHEAD

January 16, 2010

Dave Wedge of WeeklyDig.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL. A couple of excertps from the chat follow below.

WeeklyDig.com: Isn't there something ironic in the fact that it took a movie about you guys not making it for you guys to make it?

Lips: Success is doing what you love and getting away with it. And I've been doing it for 36 years. I've recorded 15 albums, the band has been around 30 years. I'd say that's a success. Have I made it from the movie? I guess that's yet to be seen. I'm certainly famous. But if people want to measure it by financial success, I'm still not. Because I'm not rich. But I wasn't before either.

WeeklyDig.com: Any regrets about not joining MOTÖRHEAD back when you were asked, in 1983?

Lips: What's the point in wondering about something you never did? I don't waste my time thinking about things like that. Do I regret not being in MOTÖRHEAD? No. I'm in ANVIL.

WeeklyDig.com: Do you have any resentment toward other '80s metal bands who made it while you guys struggled?

Lips: I never questioned it, never was bitter about it, didn't care. We never tailored our music to be that way. To me, that kind of success is asking for big kinds of trouble. It ends all your freedom to do what you want because everyone is riding your back to make money off of you. That's not fun. Watch the Lars [Ulrich; METALLICA drummer] interview [in the documentary] and he'll tell you all about it. He says I've probably had a better time than he has, and he's probably right. I've never had a head of a record label telling me to write a song for the radio. I've done what I've wanted, when I've wanted to and how I've wanted.

Read the entire interview at WeeklyDig.com.

ANVIL kicked off its 2010 North American tour on January 7 in Cleveland, Ohio at the House Of Blues. Quality fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be viewed below.

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