The Ghost Inside guitarist Zach Johnson guested on the latest episode of the ‘Pants OFF! Podcast‘ and spoke of the band’s eventual plans to return to the road once they are physically able. At present they continue to recover from the injuries they sustained in a serious bus accident which they were involved in back in November of 2015.
Originally the band had hoped to play this year’s ‘Vans Warped Tour‘, only to have to decline due their health not being where they had hoped just yet. Speaking on when the band will eventually return, Johnson offered:
“It’s really, really hard to tell. We’ve all been trying to set goals or be hopeful about stuff. We’ve all talked about it and we just need to stop doing that, because… Focus on day by day, the short-term.
When Kevin Lyman talked to us about doing ‘Warped Tour‘ this year, he talked to us about it last winter, like a couple months after the accident. And at that point we were like ‘Oh, yeah, by summer of 2017 we’ll be way good to go.’ And I mean I’m having surgery coming up soon, our singer just had surgery and has another one coming up. Our merch guy just had surgery, our other guitar player had surgery a few weeks ago. And whenever we do get back to shows, our first show isn’t going to be ‘Warped Tour‘, it’s gonna be a club show.
Not to sound insensitive to ‘Warped Tour‘, but I mean our first show needs to be about us—not a thirty minute set outside with fifteen other bands playing at the same time. It’s gonna be a club show in Los Angeles so all of our friends and family can be there and we can really focus on playing a good show, first show back, cause it’s gonna be something special.”
He continued:
“We’re optimistic. ‘Warped Tour‘—we’ll have to see about that. Even when you’re in good health ‘Warped Tour‘ is very difficult. It’s a lot of walking around every day and really long days out in the heat. And with our injuries and stuff we don’t know where we’ll be, and our drummer lost his right leg, so stuff will be a lot more difficult.
And we’ve talked about stuff like, whenever we’re able, maybe we’ll do something like the West Coast shows of ‘Warped Tour‘. Like do like the five West Coast shows then do like four of the North East shows, like New York, Philly, that kind of… Just split it up, do the bigger shows.”
This latest interview was conducted prior to Johnson‘s recent major surgery.
