Former Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds, also known for hosting ‘The Downbeat‘ podcast, has returned from a personal absence on his social media. While the interviews from his podcast have continued to roll out, Reynolds has kept relatively quiet about his personal life this year.
He broke that silence last week revealing that his downtime from vlogging came about as a bit of necessity. According to Reynolds, this past December he headed to the UK to spend Christmas with his parents, during which an ice storm rolled through Nashville, TN, destroying the home he had been renting at the time. He said of that incident [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“I had high hopes for the beginning of this year to be fully back to vlogging. Had a lot on. And then actually some of the most stressful things of my life happened and it’s pushed it back. But here we are, end of April, and I am officially back. What happened? Well, obviously I’m in Nashville — living in Nashville — that’s been stressful. I did a vlog on that.
As of now, it’s less stressful. But what happened was I went back to see my parents in the UK at Christmas. While I was there, there was an ice storm in Nashville, and that basically took out my house. Completely took it out. [There was a] tree on it… I had 3 days left of the trip seeing my parents. Had to phone someone to come and rescue the cats. There was a tree in the roof. It was leaking and the landlord did nothing. Literally nothing until, well, they did nothing. They’ve still done nothing.
So just been dealing with that and I haven’t really — although that’s good vlogging stuff — I haven’t really sort of wanted to pick up a camera and be like, ‘Hey guys, look how shit everything is.’ So, that happened. So, we had to move. And as of like last week, um, we’ve moved to a different place.
As you can see, it’s a bit better. Uh, didn’t want to move and like get a place that was kind of nice, because expensive. Didn’t know how things were going to go. Got a slightly better place. Pretty cool. It’s more expensive, but we moved. I’m here for a good while, I think. So, it might as well live a little bit more comfortably. So, then that was that.”
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