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03-06-2024
In a new interview with the Disturbing The Priest podcast, Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Canadian metallers ANVIL spoke about his health, several months after he underwent a heart procedure. The 68-year-old musician said in part: “You have things that happen because of your age. I had a heart condition. It’s repaired, but I still have to go through getting it repaired. And it wasn’t a major thing. It was just a couple of circuits had to be fixed. It wasn’t heart surgery or anything. It’s really just electrical adjustment; that’s the best way I can describe it.”
Lips went on to say that he has been smoking pot since he was 14 years old. But he added: “I don’t smoke a lot — once or once or twice a day at the most. And I can’t say that’s every day. Sometimes I don’t smoke for weeks on end. There was a period of time I did two years without smoking anything, and that was to stop smoking cigarettes, which is the biggest accomplishment of my life.”
Asked when he stopped smoking cigarettes, Lips said: “Six years ago. I don’t even think about it, and I had to really think about it to come up with the six years, because the time is going. I’m going, ‘Well, only a couple of years ago.’ No, that’s not a couple of years ago. If it was a couple of years ago, I would still get cravings. I don’t get cravings anymore.”
ANVIL will release its 20th studio album “One And Only”, on June 28 via AFM Records. The effort was recorded late last summer with longtime producer Martin “Mattes” Pfeiffer and Jörg Uken at Uken‘s Soundlodge studios in Germany. The same production team was responsible for ANVIL‘s last four albums, “Anvil Is Anvil” (2016), “Pounding The Pavement” (2018),“Legal At Last” (2019) and “Impact Is Imminent” (2022).
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