Longtime The Acacia Pressure drummer Kevin Boutot instantly left the band in 2023 after almost 20 years. Boutot was changed by Matt Guglielmo, although it was by no means clear why Boutot instantly left.
Now in an interview with the Riff Tacos Podcast, Boutot defined that being away from his younger daughter merely obtained to be too troublesome. Which is a really admirable cause to go away any band.
“I had a telephone name with my mom someday on tour, and he or she was hanging out with my daughter that day particularly,” mentioned Boutot as transcribed by Steel Injection. “My daughter – it was simply turning into too onerous and he or she made it very clear to my mother about it. My mother known as me and instructed me. It was the toughest and best resolution I’ve ever needed to make. It was on the spot, additionally. The bubbles went off and every part clicked just about instantly. It was simply too onerous for her for me to be gone.”
“In a manner, I used to be able to be completed. The touring was good, the exhibits are at all times good, the cash was good. Nothing gave the impression to be slowing down, every part was simply going sooner and sooner. However the being away from dwelling half, and you realize sleeping, in a van nonetheless… virtually 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 unexpectedly being away for an extended stretch of time was simply an excessive amount of: “My daughter and I have been collectively a variety of that downtime, so me being there so continually for all that point after which unexpectedly I am similar to ‘See ya!'”
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