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for animals when we can, he replies, “Amen. I love make choices where our lives can be stronger and
that.” more enriched, and then the opposite is true as well.
Again, I don’t want to be so presumptuous to say
ut, getting back to Fozzy’s new album, that, like Tony Robbins, we can cure the world’s ails
B‘Boombox’. There’s a song called ‘Army Of with some good riffs and some good lyrics, but if it
One’ in which Chris sings ‘If you crash and burn, just does, then that’s fantastic and it would obviously
start again.’ That also sounds quite motivational and warm my heart if some people got something out of
something we need to be reminded of. It can be easy it.”
to crash and burn, but it’s not always easy to start We ask Rich if he’d prefer to be an army of one,
again. Sometimes people feel like giving up. or in an army of five.
Rich tells us, “This album just has such a feeling. “Well, there’s time for teamwork and then there’s
And a part of it is that Johnny Andrews, our producer, time for individual achievements, and I think there are
is a fantastic lyricist and he’s been a really big part of benefits in both. At the end of the day, you’re putting
helping to steer the ship conceptually on these songs a band on stage, so you’re only as good as whatever
and it’s been fantastic for Chris and I to collaborate member, if he’s struggling, or she’s struggling, being
with Johnny. I think a song like ‘Army Of One’ is in- able to lean on each other to help us through it, that’s,
credible because it basically puts the responsibility I guess, the peak of a team and having a band, the
and the power in us, in our ability to say things are individual parts, the only reason that being great as
not perfect. Nobody gets out of this thing alive. an individual is just what you bring to the whole of the
There’s one thing that will definitely happen to all of band. But I still think being an army of one is great
us and that’s we will die. We have a finite amount of because your band is not going to be there for you
time and none of us know how long that is, but it’s so every step of the way. You’re going to have to go
important to remember that the most valuable com- through tough things on your own and you’re going
modity that any of us have is time. And the fact that to have to make those decisions. And you can lean
we have the choice to make the most and the best on your family and your friends and your mates, but
out of those situations, and I think the song is kind of ultimately, those decisions are down to you.”
a battle cry for that. We all have the opportunity to

FOZZY