Anselmo had this to say about SJR not touring Europe: “No, no I'm going to avoid Europe for as long as possible... until... I guess until all the soldiers get sent home and s*** and all the airlines are chilled out a little. That whole thing is a f**kin' headache and I don't feel like strip searching for nobody. We're scheduled throughout December anyway, and then we've got January off and we're gonna see what, probably the best thing is. I honestly would like to go on a bigger tour, but I just don't see... I can't even imagine what bands would have the balls to take us on tour, I really don't..."

Anselmo also addressed the status of the Down unplugged CD and DVD, here is what he had to say: "As long as we're entrapped with Elektra Records, which we seem to be, I'm not doing another f**king thing for Elektra Records unless they...they'd have to promise me...a lot of money, real f**ckin' quick, and a lot of promotion. And their gonna have to do better than promises, I want it f**kin' so to the f**kin' T, contracted to where they don't have the upper hand on the band. As they have in the past...I ain't doing nothing for Elektra Records 'cause they ain't done nothin' for me but f**kin' waste my time. Aside from the other band which I ain't ever doin' nothin' with again...and I don't want to talk about it." 

He also took a swipe at his former Pantera bandmates (as reported in the Day In Rock) "I want  SUPERJOINT RITUAL to be every-f**kin'-thing that people maybe missed in PANTERA. Because I knew that, you know, PANTERA, not to talk about 'um, because I'm not going to, but if it weren't f**kin' for me, in that f**kin' band...what I f**kin' taught those motherf**kers. You know, you'll see on their new s*** [DAMAGEPLAN], the singer [Patrick Lachman] is gonna come out and imitate me, the best he possibly can. He's gonna have to end up singing songs that I wrote when I was f**kin'20 years old, and they're gonna sound like [guitarist] Diamond Darrell and [drummer] Vinnie Paul's killer sound, you know, they're not doing anything different. Whereas with SUPERJOINT, yeah, we're doing something f**kin' different. I'm not saying it's never been done before, but what I'm saying is, is it's definitely a genre of music that changed my life forever. This is where I've wanted to be for so long, musically, you know, 'cause we've been writing SUPERJOINT s*** for oh god, since '93, and you know, long time coming, man. I mean to f**kin' be with them, with this f**kin' band for damn sure." You can read the full interview by clicking here. 

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