“There are similarities to America and Canada, of course. “I think one of the most different places in the world is America! And all they like to think of themselves is being the most common and the best in all there is.” Ok, I think. Still my associations have always been different, what makes it all the more interesting. …” He illustrates the similarities that he sees in architecture, the distribution patterns of the inhabited areas of both, that they’re rather young countries. But in the South it’s not much different in Canada. Images in my mind of boiling heat in the Outback crash into biting frost of Canadian winter as Lips highlights that Canada and Australia have so much in common and I say: “But very much warmer?!” “Well in the North of the country, yes. Is it the best place in the world? I don’t know.” He smiles and his smiles grows more intensively saying: “If you’re Canadian, it is!” We both laugh. That’s where you’re comfortable, you know. It’s sort of difficult to answer that because each place has its own beauty and its own attractiveness to me.” Lips explains that he loves, for example Germany and England but that he would never want to live anywhere else but Canada. „Do you have a favourite place in the world – besides home?“ -“No. Lips fully agrees with me and ends with: ”I am extremely content with what I have achieved.” Lips – The Traveller and His Very Socio-Political View on America I point out that he still has the privacy to live a normal life which I personally consider an extremely valuable feature of life. It’s the person that knows the most people, the person that’s been to the most places and the person that’s created the most music.” I draw a breath to begin … but Lips continues: “I mean in my humble opinion, it’s my opinion and I don’t really care what other people think in this sense, I am a lot more successful than The Beatles! I’ve done 17 albums! And I am gonna continue maybe another three or four so … I’m gonna get 20 albums with over 230 songs – lots of music that I have published and all put out. It’s not the person who gets the most amount of money. “And much experience…” – “My theory about life is, you wanna get as much done as possible. You’re better off when you sell out with change and adapt and the world is gonna tapping to what you’re doing – you want it to happen when you got lot s and lots of music!” “You gonna make it, you make it on the first album? That’s not so good. I can easily read in his face that this man is absolutely happy and confident with his life and the moment.
And if you gonna have a break-through album, do it on the 20 th or 25 th album! So that when it happens there’s 25 albums to buy rather than just one.” Lips’ attitude is bone-crushing and as down-to-earth as can be. Because if you become everybody’s favourite it doesn’t take long before it’s over. A metal band should stay true to what it’s hoped to be or what it was in the beginning and stay consistent on the road of its career and not become so big that you become everybody’s favourite. It’s not my idea of what a metal band should be. I never wanted to sell out, to be as big as Metallica. Was there any particular moment from which on things go better? Could you over such a long career determine such a critical moment? “Well, I mean, obviously” … – but then he is reconsidering his wording and starts over: “The beautiful thing about Anvil’s career that it happened exactly the way that I envisioned, that I planned it at the very start.
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