Baroness Frontman On The Crash That Nearly Ended His Career

"It's pretty simple. We love what we're doing. And we love the music,” Baroness' John Baizley says straight up. “And though there's a seemingly endless supply of mishaps that get put in our way, we're just not willing to let that kind of thing stop us. We love touring, because that was the reason that we started the band: to tour. And we're going to keep doing it until we can't anymore. And now when I say that, I mean it quite literally.”

August 15, 2012, as the band was just getting stuck into their Yellow & Green album tour, the brakes on their tour bus failed, causing it to crash. Baizley sustained the worst of the injuries, breaking his leg and an arm. Baizley says there was a moment where he was unsure whether he'd be able to play guitar again. But once it was clear everyone would recover, Baizley started thinking about getting back on the road.

“We certainly thought for a couple of days that maybe we won't be able to tour. But once we got past that and we were relatively positive that we could play, it was not a difficult decision to start moving towards being an active touring band again. In fact, it was very definitely one of the earliest goals we set for ourselves; that we would consider ourselves healed, and we'd consider ourselves past it for lack of a better term, when we were touring again.”

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