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Dodge and Burn
Dodge and Burn
hat do you think of when ore and more people these problem with, but “it’s just who I
Mdays are taking the bull by am, so…”
Wyou think of ‘Crooked the horns and changing their Revealing a little more, he says,
Teeth’? Aside from it being Papa flaws… whether it is aesthetically, “I think too much. And I’m slow to
by temporarily airbrushing them out do sometimes. I try and get myself
Roach’s latest blistering release, online, or permanently erasing them out of it.”
that is? Do you think of flaws via surgery. With personality traits, A lot of us are slow to do certain
that need fixing, or do you think some people work on changing things sometimes. But one thing
themselves – while others now em-
Jerry wasn’t slow to do was to help
of something real, genuine and brace them. With subjects such as ex-bandmate Dave Buckner earlier
honest; beautiful as they are? We mental health coming to the fore, it in the year, when Dave put out the
call to help the victims of Hurricane
is more widely accepted to be ‘you’,
all have flaws. We’ve all been and be proud of who you are, to Harvey. Jerry showed up at a park-
allow yourself to have good days ing lot to help collect goods to give
tainted by something, whether and bad. Papa Roach’s Jacoby to those in need.
it’s by life itself, our circum- Shaddix has said to ‘embrace your “It was actually something that
brokenness’. Sitting down with gui- Dave had organized and he came to
stances, our own genetics. And tarist Jerry Horton, we ask him if it’s Jacoby and me for help,” Jerry ex-
of course the world itself is ever good to try and change one’s plains. “We were set up in a parking
flaws. “Of course. If there’s some- lot. We put it out on our social ac-
flawed too. But with a band in it thing that someone can’t deal counts, having people drop off
like Papa Roach, who own up to with… I think to each his own, me things. He actually drove a big truck
their flaws and have used them personally. If you feel like you’ve out to Houston, just he and his girl-
got to change something about
friend. It wasn’t really anything for
to fuel their creativity and help yourself, go for it. But you’re not im- me to be there. I was just there to
others, the world isn’t such an perfect.” give him support. But it was cool to
see people coming together and ac-
He says there are some things
ugly place at all. about his personality that he has a tually getting stuff to people that
PAPA ROACH
