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Pierce The Veil Guitarist Tony Perry ’ 2016 Summer Tour Survival Guide — Mayhem Fest
In this new feature from the August 2015 issue of Guitar Planet , the guitarists of Pierce The Veil , Morbid Angel , Trivium and other metal acts tell how they ’ ll beat the heat and tame the crowds on the season ’ s biggest tours .
o mark the end , Vic Fuentes
Thas returned to where it all began . Standing on the edge of the rocks at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego , the city where he was born , he ’ s come to put an end to years of turmoil , uncertainty and stress . Vic idly swings a deep red Epiphone guitar from his right hand as he looks out over the Pacific Ocean , a breeze blowing the hair peeking from the bottom of his now trademark snapback and with five and a half thousand miles of water between himself and Japan .
e takes a deep breath , two
Hsteps forward and hurls the guitar off the cliff . It arcs through the air , almost in slow motion and disappears from view . Vic stands up straight and clenches both fists . It ’ s done . His bandmates Mike , Tony and Jaime whoop and cheer , each of them back in their home city – the place where this band was brought together – to put their new album ‘ Misadventures ’ to bed .
fter all of the false starts ,
Aand twists and turns of the last few years , it ’ s finally time for the four of them to look forward and start the next chapter of this band ’ s incredible story . But not before they ’ ve filled in the gaps with Rock Sound . Once ‘ Misadventures ’ was done , “ I definitely felt a little more like myself ,” Vic tells us a day earlier , clutching his second coffee of the day in his brother Mike ’ s leafy garden . Mike Fuentes – Vic ’ s junior by two years – walks the premises puffing on a Pierce The Veilbranded vaporiser with his dog , a scruffy black terrier named Frank , scrabbling under his feet .
uitarist Tony Perry plays
Gwith his phone behind thickrimmed glasses , stopping to show off the lump in his shoulder caused by a mountain biking accident last summer . Meanwhile , bassist Jaime Preciado bounces around the house , forever the life and soul of everything . The band are a picture of contentment .
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