Longtime The Acacia Pressure drummer Kevin Boutot abruptly left the band in 2023 after almost 20 years. Boutot was changed by Matt Guglielmo, although it was by no means clear why Boutot abruptly left.
Now in an interview with the Riff Tacos Podcast, Boutot defined that being away from his younger daughter merely bought to be too troublesome. Which is a really admirable purpose to go away any band.
“I had a telephone name with my mom at some point on tour, and he or she was hanging out with my daughter that day specifically,” stated Boutot as transcribed by Metallic Injection. “My daughter – it was simply turning into too laborious and he or she made it very clear to my mother about it. My mother known as me and informed me. It was the toughest and best resolution I’ve ever needed to make. It was prompt, additionally. The bubbles went off and every part clicked just about instantly. It was simply too laborious for her for me to be gone.”
“In a means, I used to be able to be executed. The touring was good, the exhibits are all the time good, the cash was good. Nothing appeared to be slowing down, every part was simply going quicker and quicker. 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 rapidly being away for a protracted stretch of time was simply an excessive amount of: “My daughter and I have been collectively a whole lot of that downtime, so me being there so consistently for all that point after which rapidly I am identical to ‘See ya!'”
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