Greg Walls x-Anthrax Guitarist Interview Anthrax Fistful of Metal Era 1983 & Early Metallica Stories 

Greg walls has the comment section turned off on all of his videos... I just want to say you crack me up..!.. you are a true metal Warrior.! Hats off to you.!

When Greg called Scott by his real last name on his video playing the Anthrax songs I laughed so hard. I liked him immediately.

Much respect Greg, thanks for the killer tunes you wrote man.

I was at the book signing at the Coronet Theatre. Scott played it cool on stage. Greg said “when’s the last time you saw Greg Walls?” Scott slyly replied, “let me guess, you’re Greg Walls.” But afterward in the signing line I did overhear Scott quietly exclaim in disbelief to Johnny Z, who was also there. Scott acted fine on stage, but in that moment following the program, I got the sense that Scott seemed either stunned or unsettled by Greg’s presence.

I dont know.... but if the man helped write the the first album, then give him fair credit.

Robert Di'nero doing a fine interview with Skippy from Family Ties.

The one thing you can't take away from Scott is, he's one of the tightest rhythm players in the biz. That being said, I have heard stories of people that met him and said he was kind of full of himself. I tend to lean on the side of Greg Walls. I also watched the video he did more recently where he showcased how he wrote 2 of Fistful's tracks. Seems pretty legit, as a guitar player and songwriter also.

I love this guy. I watched his original rant about getting ripped off, and at first I was skeptical, but having 30 years of recovery in various 12 step programs, therapy, and 7 years of ACA, adult children of alcoholics, I can totally relate with everything he's saying, and how as a kid he was basically a doormat, and some entitled aggressive kid comes along, and does all these sneaky things behind his back like not keeping everybody up to speed with what's going on with Zazula. His trauma kept him from standing up for himself in anthrax, and kept him from being guitarist from Metallica which if he had more of Scott's ego he definitely would have become Metallica's guitarist, he got along with everybody and was the life of the party, I can totally relate.

fist full is my favorite album from anthrax

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the term "Thrash Metal" came from an early magazine article on Anthrax when referencing the song "Metal Thrashing Mad". If so, then Greg had a bigger hand in Thrash than people think.

I've been listening to Metallica since 84 & Anthrax since 85 & until today never knew Greg was still in the band when Metallica showed up but really have heard almost nothing about this guy. I just assumed he was there at the very beginning not for long then they got Dan Spitz. Thanks for posting a great informative interview.

Great interview with Greg! Really dig his honesty..These stories are priceless..Thank you Greg for sharing your time with the band..

Greg made the right choice bailing on the band. I've known other serious musicians who cut people who didn't quite fit. The music business is cruel and forces decent people to do awful things. A lot of them don't make it anyway...

Been listening to Anthrax since the mid 80s love the band and especially the newest album.. this was an insightful look into their past, great interview!

Incredible interview, great stuff! thanks Greg Walls!

Man! that was an excellent excellent and HONEST interview....Great stories...especially when seeing Metallica play for the first time upstairs....that was great. Sad, about the songwriting credits...but Greg seems like a great humble guy.

that's one great interview TMV - thanks..... great to finally get an Anthrax interview from Greg

I could listen to this guy forever .great talker and very much full of information....he should go back to music im sure he has lots of great riffs in a vault

Fantastic interview. Thanks so much for this.

very interesting to hear a brand new perspective , on early ANTHRAX ...

Now I see where all the SOD songs came from...Greg Walls

Great insight to the days of a great band .

This interview is the best! Fucking awesome

This is a great interview. I really feel for Greg..... not fair leaving him off the album....total BS.

So this is why I pretty much only like the first album of Anthrax...go figure.

This dude is cool....I could listen to him for a long time.Good story teller 😷

This exact same thing happened to me. I was in a band me and some friends started, we didnt even have a name for the longest time. I wrote songs and practiced and helped out and tthe bass player would copy my guitar playing at one point he was playing my solos on his bass and i just left the band. I was starting a new job and felt like i didnt need the added stress. Then they get a new guitar player and record an album and its all my songs and the guy playing doesnt even sound right and no mention of me of course. I felt like how Greg says he felt here and this band never amounted to anything so for Anthrax to get big and you helped them get started and they just act like you didnt even exist that is pretty low and how much royaltys or however that works would Greg of made just by being credited? Like if for two songs the album had his name. Would he of made a lot of money???

I wonder what it would be like if the original lineup of Anthrax reunited

This guy is cool! He's telling the truth. Metallica seemed like they were destined. Love that story. Met Scott Ian in Honolulu around 2010, yeah he's "entitled".

Greg's solos on the '82 demo are shred, pick melting, relentless, chaotic excellence! NEVER get tired of those! Fuck yeah!

What an interesting interview.Right the fuck on.

If Walls could talk. That’s what they say. Walls was the musician, Scott was the investor. They should have given this thoughtful and talented guy some credits on that first album. So glad he made a life for himself separate from the entertainment industry. Greg Walls.....you were good, kid.

Greg nice to see Robert Di Nero interviewing you 😁

Man that was good! I'm an old Metalhead!love these storys.

I love Greg & Neil they are the best and sweetest guys ever! 🤘❤️‍🔥🤘

Walls is a bad ass guitar player . Dang ….

dan spitz has the same beef with the band, charlie claimed he wrote a lot of anthrax solos and it was a lie.

Scott Ian chewing his nails....

Great interview. Thank you so much! Sub!

Great interview.

I love the awesome guys you interview.

Always thought the music writing style from fistful to spreading the disease was dramatically different. One interview had turbin saying he wrote fistful. Maybe when a singer says that , he means vocally and perhaps lyrically?

whatever the truth is, me personally feel bad that guys like Walls and Mustaine cant let go of the past and have to live in a bitter state of resentment. Thats toxic in my world.

Scott said in his book that it was Neil who got rid of Dan Lilker because he didn't like the fact that he was taller than him. So if he lied about that, then most of the other stuff in the book is probably BS too.

Man, if you write a book I’ll be the first in line in the bookstore buying it 👍

There's always 1 in every popular band

I think the reason this video does not have enough views is all the original Anthrax fans stopped listening or following any Anthrax news

I have to question some of this guys recollection. They played the Hartford Civic Center in ‘83?????? Nope. He was in the band when Metallica was in NY and he played tons of shows with them????? Not so sure about that either, According to Scott’s book Dan Spitz was already in the band by the time Metallica arrived. Can someone fact check these claims please?????

Great interview

haha, i remember that music building in Jamaica. been there a few times as my friend's band had a room there. this was about 3-4 years after Metallica was there.

ill have to look it up but the singer who was repla ced by Sebastian Bach and Skid Row was also in Anthrax and replaced with Belladonna because I rrmebrr thinking "and I thought my life sucked " I cant remember his name and i'll probably forget to look it up

Greg Walls awesome!!!!!!!!

Very cool interview. Thx for looking Greg up.

“70% note, 30% noise”…at 2:10 please elaborate.

If its very interesting from an outside standpoint. I can see a certain amount of credibility here. Nonetheless,this interview is priceless with the nostalgia intact.

Charlie Sheen was in Anthrax??? WINNING!

freaking awesome. ..

Interesting interview. Read Scott's first book recently. Greg definitely got mentioned. If really wrote those two songs, then he missed out. Also wonder why he wasn't really heard from until this interview. Greg seemed to enjoy being interviewed, but how much did he embellish?

In metal everybody loved everybody back in the day, but life has it's own way of doing things, and nature has it's peculiar way of showing everyone's rotten core and tese things set things in motion, the right or the wrong direction, go figure, it's Murphy's law

I never knew Robert De Nero had a RU-vid channel.

I certainly hope Greg's personality is NOT like Scott's.

at 27:40 why you cut off?

Cool interview

I'm just imagining a photos of Metallica with Greg Walls. He definitely would have written better solos, which would have also affected sales.

In a way Greg got slighted. He did help write some the stuff on Fistfull but without contracts it is just academic at this point. Spitz came in as well as Joey and everything before is a minor footnote. Rather than sour grapes Greg should had forged his own Thrash band and maintained some sort of positive relationship with other band members.

I feel like Scott was put in situations where he had to make horrible decisions. I'm not saying he wasn't at fault for doing some underhanded shit but he definitely was savvy enough to be able to see a path and use good material when it was there. After meeting Metallica who were in the right place at the right time there must have been a sense of urgency to be on the same level. Every band has people who kinda fell by the wayside. I was in a band called 13 Crowds back in the late '80s and there were other members and they wrote one song. lol We (the new members) never wanted to to play the earlier "one song" of "material" because it sounded very ,"typical" and "hacky". Thing is if it wasn't so, everything I said, you can bet that we would have used it. We loved the Misfits, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedy's, The Meat Men, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Black Flag . We knew what good music sounded like and emulated what we heard and we didn't even know how to tune our instruments but we could hear and improvised. The other thing was that our singer would record us and we didn't know it. I listened to a lot of Metal and Industrial and all the stuff I mentioned very open to lots of influences. Later I found out our material was tape traded and even sold all over Western PA and Eastern OH and people knew who we were? So you see the thinking behind bands isn't always cohesive and especially if there is a lot at stake. There was nothing really at stake for us but there was a lot going on and we didn't always know about it. The founder of our band went on to have other other bands. Crowd 13, The Blackouts and Nobody's Hero and continued to use our material but eventually dropped a lot in favor of rerecording on a 4 track and using a drum machine. I always tried to be as supportive as I could even through bad blood with other members and drama and learned a lot about DIY music and production. My point is you never really know how things are going to go and you definitely don't always know what is going on behind the scenes.

fuckin guy played strip clubs with metallica, what crazy shit went on there!

Nice !

Anthrax was not known for great musicianship, to me they seemed to be fooling around onstage, not very serious. I saw them in the day at L'Amour in Brooklyn, I wasn't impressed at all, even this guy was luke warm. This was at a time that amazing musicians grew on trees. But Anthrax did create something new, I didn't like it, and it never really sold a lot of records, but it a new cross pollination of musical styles. When the rap stuff came out, I tuned out completely. Metallica was a much better band, they sold 100x's the records. This guy was smart to go to school to get the hell out of the business, because they never made much money. For all his fame Scott Ian is worth about $5m, I made more than that and I didn't have to leave my shop. I build guitars, in '82 I was making $150k a year, these guys were broke. Very few musicians made a lot of money, they had no medical, none of them saved any money for retirement. Metallica's members are incredibly wealthy, but for every one of them, there's thousands of broke musicians. I'll bet Greg Walls is better off today than if he stayed in Anthrax.

Anthrax is probably my least favourite band of the Big 4. Nevertheless, the interview is great. Keep up the good work! I think the channel has a lot of potential. BTW. Cheers from Ukraine. Nick.

The j couldn't even pay the 35 dollars to get into the book event of Scott's!!!

This dude 5 months ago just dropped a video saying that Scott Ian ripped him off and that Anthrax was a band he started.

Was searching up vids of scot improvising even rythmn but found nothing I wonder if he can write a riff on the spot

The only Anthrax song I ever liked was Inside Out. Great track. Everything else I can't get into.

Who is this lady and why does she have issues with Anthrax?!

Ok so Anthrax did pretty well after Wall was kicked from band right? Give me a brake. Sour grapes 🍇

Is that his real hair?

Ian fronted the money for the band, so he took some writing credit. Sounds like Hesch in the sopranos ha. Maybe Johnny z, cause of dealing with mustaine and royalty stuff, just told the boys, Greg left, don’t give him any credit.

Rosenfeld...JEWelry sellers...SURPRISE, SURPRISE!

Love this guy's accent and he sounds like Johnny Brennan from the Jerky Boys. Alright there Bottlenose

Greg smith he great guitarist

It sucks that he got ripped off, but do your REALLY want to be the guy who takes credit for writing Fistful of Metal?

Everybody knows the stereotype of ) evvs. Scott Ian Rosenfeld worked really hard to strengthen that type. Doesn't matter if banker or musician, always gotta steal.

Hartford civic center in 83??

Hey yo. That ANTHRAX Logo is NOT from 1983. Its from the John Bush days. Just to let you know. So since you are not specific on detail, I will not watch anymore

I watched two videos Greg posted from his time in Anthrax and they sound more like Judas Priest so I don't think he's very believable in all honesty

Got any reviews you are working on. I can recommend albums.

Going by what he says in this interview and what Scott says in his book it sounds like Scott wasn't that great of a guitar player in those days. I don't get how he became this super tight rhythm player if he never practiced cuz even if you're rehearsing alot with a band you still need to practice a lot on your own.

Greg posted a video a few months ago called "Anthrax ripped me off: Fistful Of Metal". He struggles to play the guitar & is very bitter & twisted in the whole thing, pretty sad really

Sol Rosenberg is real?

Shameful letting Dan go like they did.

Kirk came to NYC the same night or the day after Dave was kicked out.

This dude's butt-hurtedness puts Mustaine's to shame...lol

“ a lot of people got to know who I was” no one knows who you are boyo

It's f****** Criminal that they didn't even have the decency to credit this guy on the f****** album liner notes I f****** love anthrax I've always been a fan of their music but this guy is a legit guitar player and an excellent songwriter apparently and to get robbed of your credit sucks I'm sorry for you brother I think Anthrax has had enough success they should help the dude out by bucket at least giving him the credit he deserves

Wow. I didn't know that about Scott.

Ok, so why wait until now to cry about it?

This dude is just mad because he wasn't in the band when they got big. If was good song writer he would have started a new band and had some success.

first Metallica 4life

killer!