Longtime The Acacia Pressure drummer Kevin Boutot out of the blue left the band in 2023 after almost 20 years. Boutot was changed by Matt Guglielmo, although it was by no means clear why Boutot out of the blue left.
Now in an interview with the Riff Tacos Podcast, Boutot defined that being away from his younger daughter merely received to be too troublesome. Which is a really admirable motive to go away any band.
“I had a telephone name with my mom sooner or later on tour, and she or he was hanging out with my daughter that day particularly,” stated Boutot as transcribed by Steel Injection. “My daughter – it was simply turning into too laborious and she or he made it very clear to my mother about it. My mother known as me and advised me. It was the toughest and best resolution I’ve ever needed to make. It was prompt, additionally. The bubbles went off and every thing clicked just about instantly. It was simply too laborious for her for me to be gone.”
“In a manner, I used to be able to be achieved. The touring was good, the reveals are all the time good, the cash was good. Nothing gave the impression to be slowing down, every thing was simply going sooner and sooner. However the being away from dwelling half, and sleeping, in a van nonetheless… nearly 40-year-old our bodies aren’t meant to be sleeping alongside van benches for greater than half their life.”
Boutot later defined that he and his daughter spent a lot time collectively throughout COVID that hastily being away for a protracted stretch of time was simply an excessive amount of: “My daughter and I have been collectively lots of that downtime, so me being there so always for all that point after which hastily I am similar to ‘See ya!'”
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