“I feel guilty because, lately, I’ve had to stop doing merch. It’s all about the golden rule: give the respect that you’d like to be given, and you’ll probably get it back.”Ī telling sigh. “Some guys get a little buzz and think they’re hot shit. “I love that people know that they can talk, not just to me, but us as a band,” he shrugs, bashfully, deflecting the love to guitarist Cody Chavez and drummer Tim Flegal. With a linebacker build, protestations that he’s not always the most approachable dude – “I get upset, I’ve got days, everyone’s got days…” – feel tangibly legitimate, but his burgeoning reputation as the fan-loving, merch table-dwelling, anti-gatekeeper Nicest Man In Hardcore takes just a few minutes of chatter to feel fully deserved. If modern hardcore is “a community, a lifestyle, an attitude, a code of ethics and the willingness to stick to your guns” as Sammy suggests, then he was always going to be one of its champions.
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