Un fan vient de publier la séance de projection du documentaire pour Empath sur YouTube. Devin Townsend et ses fans visionnent le documentaire dans son intégralité, et le musicien ajoute des anecdotes intéressantes entre les extraits.
À un moment, Devin raconte pourquoi il n’arrive toujours pas à écouter l’album Sex & Religion de Steve Vai. C’était le premier projet professionnel de Devin, et ce fut un moment de désillusion intense. Au départ, il pensait, comme beaucoup, que le monde de la musique était un milieu artistique pur. Néanmoins, il s’est vite rendu compte que tout était corrompu.
I went to L.A. for that record, and I was 20 years old. And I had the idealism that I think a lot of musicians have prior to getting involved with it, where, in your mind’s eye, you have this impression that if you become a musician, it’s easy street — you get videos and you get your albums in stores, and all these sorts of things. And it was compounded with me, I think, by my… I’ve always been interested in, not spirituality, but how music is an invisible thing; it’s connected to the spirit. And I think when I went to L.A., I was so immediately deflowered by the industry, where I was just, like, ‘Oh my God! This is all fucking bullshit! It’s all bullshit!’ All the smoke and mirrors that goes into making someone look like a God, where they’ll Photoshop the face and they’ll take the photos from that one angle where your teeth aren’t fucked up, and they present it… Some 60-year-old guy is, like, ‘He’s still hot, ladies and gentlemen,’ and they airbrush his abs on. And when you’re not involved with it, you’re thinking, like, ‘Wow! These are gods. These are legitimately not like me. These people are not like me.’ And when I got there, I realized really quickly everybody’s fucked. No one knows. No one’s got any answers.
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