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Jamey Jasta on LOS Podcast: 'I was one of the only people who publicly went against Tim Lambesis'

"He cried on my show." Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta gives his unvarnished take on Tim Lambesis.

Jamey Jasta on Tim Lambesis

Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta appeared on a new installment of Legion of Skanks' weekly "podcast party" — featuring comedians Big Jay Oakerson, Luis J. Gomez, and Dave Smith — and was asked to talk about Tim Lambesis and the demise (for now) of his metalcore band As I Lay Dying, in addition to Lambesis' post-prison appearance on Jasta's own podcast. You can watch a video clip below.

Amid various quips from the comedians pertaining to hitmen and bitchy wives, Jasta provided the following context to his perspective on Lambesis:

"Ok, so we did the podcast [with Tim] and everybody said that I was too hard on him and the questions were rude and stuff and I was like, 'the dude survived prison... what's a couple questions over Zoom?' The fans get very attached to certain people in certain bands and they want to see them... no matter what they've done, it doesn't matter. If they're your favorite band, they're like 'oh, separate the art from the artist'. I was asking questions like, 'Do you still have a restraining order with your kids and your wife?' and there were things that he couldn't answer... because that's what I would want to know, especially if we're going to tour together or be on the same stage together...

"If [the hitman] wasn't a cop, she would be dead... and he had dudes vouching for him, so those dudes wanna come on the show, or one of the dudes I think I'll have on the show again, Ken [Susi, ex-As I Lay Dying, ex-Unearth], who's a great guy, was like, 'yeah, I want to take back what I said, vouching for [Lambesis]'.

"But yeah, it's a shitty situation if you're a diehard fan of [Lambesis], who I asked, 'is your ex-wife still in witness protection?' and he couldn't answer.

"[Lambesis] cried on the show and stuff and really sold it, so people were like, 'Fuck Jasta! He's so insensitive! I can't believe this!'...

"I was one of the only people that publicly went against [Lambesis] and said it on multiple shows. Not a lot of people... I think I'm still, you could probably Google this, I'm still one of the only people that said, 'No fuck this dude! It's wack. He's done. This is someone that should really be canceled'. And I swear, in one day I had maybe like 400 tweets where it was like, 'Fuck you, Jasta, you never wanted to kill your wife?!?'... I was like, 'No, I mean...'




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