What Happened The Night The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus Joined Anthrax

Norman Reedus Joined Anthrax And Frank Bello Talks About It

Last week during an Anthrax concert in Atlanta The Walking Dead protagonist Norman Reedus joined the band and played the bass . So Frank Bello Talks About It In Team Rock :

So how did Norman Reedus end up joining you onstage?

A couple of weeks ago we went to see AC/DC in New York and met Norm there. Long story short, Scott [Ian, Anthrax guitarist] is friends with Greg Nicotero, the show’s director, and the band was invited to come and check out the set when we played in Atlanta. They gave us such a wonderful tour of the place that we forgot we had a show in the evening.         

Really? It was that good?!

[Laughs] We were so enthralled by what was going on there, none of us wanted to leave. We’re all huge fans of the show and the cast and crew were so good to us, we were treated like gold. So we invited everybody to that night’s show, and Greg and Norm both came. Norm stood right at the side of the stage by me, which was very cool. I wanted to pay him back for such a great day and told him, ‘Dude – last song of the night, you’re coming out here’. He took some persuading but eventually said, ‘Fuck yeah’. I handed him my back-up bass and, well… the YouTube’s out there, everybody saw what happened.

Did you already know that Norman could play the bass? Has he been in bands before?

No, that’s the funny thing. He said, ‘I can’t play!’ so I replied, ‘Just follow me!’

And nobody twigged?

No! Everyone’s talking about Norm playing with us, but he doesn’t even play. But now he says he wants to learn and form his own band. I’ll help him out with that if I can because he lives in New York

The footage went viral.

Yeah, it spread like wildfire. It went everywhere. I know how big that show is but the story even went to TMZ, for God’s sake. That’s crazy

And what does the nerd within Frank Bello think about it all?

Well, it doesn’t happen every day of the week but I saw within his eyes that Norm wants to be a rock star. People were screaming for him, dude. I felt so fucking good for Norm. I wanted him to feel how much people dig what he does as an actor, and I think he got it.

So this kind of stuff is that are awesome in metal concert last time I was in a Black Label Society Concert and Gus G suddenly appeared ! Fucking awesome stuff going on>

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