“Do you have a favourite place in the world – besides home?” -“No. Lips fully agrees with me and ends with: ”I am extremely content with what I have achieved.” Lips – The Traveller and His Very Socio-Political View on America I point out that he still has the privacy to live a normal life which I personally consider an extremely valuable feature of life. It’s the person that knows the most people, the person that’s been to the most places and the person that’s created the most music.” I draw a breath to begin … but Lips continues: “I mean in my humble opinion, it’s my opinion and I don’t really care what other people think in this sense, I am a lot more successful than The Beatles! I’ve done 17 albums! And I am gonna continue maybe another three or four so … I’m gonna get 20 albums with over 230 songs – lots of music that I have published and all put out. It’s not the person who gets the most amount of money. “And much experience…” – “My theory about life is, you wanna get as much done as possible. You’re better off when you sell out with change and adapt and the world is gonna tapping to what you’re doing – you want it to happen when you got lot s and lots of music!” “You gonna make it, you make it on the first album? That’s not so good. I can easily read in his face that this man is absolutely happy and confident with his life and the moment. And if you gonna have a break-through album, do it on the 20 th or 25 th album! So that when it happens there’s 25 albums to buy rather than just one.” Lips’ attitude is bone-crushing and as down-to-earth as can be. Because if you become everybody’s favourite it doesn’t take long before it’s over. A Metal band should stay true to what it’s hoped to be or what it was in the beginning and stay consistent on the road of its career and not become so big that you become everybody’s favourite. It’s not my idea of what a Metal band should be. I never wanted to sell out, to be as big as Metallica. Was there any particular moment from which on things go better? Could you over such a long career determine such a critical moment? “Well, I mean, obviously” … – but then he is reconsidering his wording and starts over: “The beautiful thing about Anvil’s career that it happened exactly the way that I envisioned, that I planned it at the very start. The Beautiful Thing About Anvil’s Career Steven Barry “Lips” Kudlow, Anvil by Ms Cesar Little Then you’ll be ok”, he says laughing softly. But obviously the best thing to do is doing lots of exercise, eat properly and don’t do any drugs or alcohol. “Well, you age because you’re doing bad things.” Lips relates to alcohol and smoking as aging factors in life: “It gives you wrinkles and cancer and everything else, so”, he laughs again, “if you gotta do something bad you’re probably better off smoking pot.” I frown reminded on the smell in the room we met first. “And you look brilliant”, I admit frankly and with pleasure. “Yeah, I am 62 now!” he says with a smile. When you’re busy it isn’t a long time.” He turned 50 when the documentation was produced and that is already twelve years back. But Lips, he laughs: “Oh, I don’t really think about it as a long time. He explains how touring as support of UDO about two years back brought a lot more exposure for Anvil.Ĥ0 years. But then the tour has been “Lots of fun! One of the best tours I have ever done!” Lips says. Anvil has been on the road for two months already and will be for another three weeks. So we change to a cosy corner in the café bar of the venue. We meet backstage but with the support bands doing their sound checks it is too loud by far. Even more he gives a hell lot of good reasons to enjoy the days we have. And Lips tells us all about the critical moments the band has had and how in the end everything fell into place. Today, more than fucking forty years later they are still there. No reason ever for Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Rob Reiner – the heart of Anvil – to give up. But then a bit of bad luck forces the band to take a break when the nowadays incredibly big mega-sellers like Metallica rise. ![]() Harder and louder and … faster than ever. Although perhaps he even more is a wise one.īut let’s go back to the early days: A Metal band called Anvil rises from Canada in the late 1970s and very early 1980s. And I met a man that fully qualifies to be called a legend. ![]() Meeting a legend – that’s what I hoped for.
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