Interview by: Marisa Young Photos by: Corey Tilton WRBB caught up with Josh Gilbert, bassist / vocalist of San Diego metal band As I Lay Dying at Mayhem Fest August 3rd.  Check out the interview below! Josh Gilbert You guys have been on Mayhem Fest for a while now and you only have a couple days left— Yeah it’s been almost a month, actually over a month now… What’s been the best date you’ve played so far? Well I was separating it into two best days: for the side stage the best date was Albuquerque because there was a crazy storm. The rain and wind were crazy and it tore up the stage and tore up a lot of the merch tents; we thought they were going to cancel the show.  But we were the first band to play after the storm was kind of finished, and by then people were just so amped up that the show didn’t get cancelled so the crowd just went nuts. And then on the main stage the best one was probably Chicago because, you know a lot of the time the way the amphitheaters are, I haven’t seen this one yet, but there’s…a really small pit area and a TON of seats and then there’s a lawn area. Usually we don’t get much going on in the very front because it’s people who paid more money, like the older people who came to see the bands they wanted to get real close to, and they had to pay $120 bucks for their tickets. So they’re not going to be like moshing the way our normal crowd would be. But the lawn, we always address the lawn while we’re on the stage and this specific show we do a song where we do a
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