
And to do that, you need to effectively crack open your skull and allow that audience to come in and walk around barefooted inside your head." It's a testament to the relationship between any artist and their fan base because all artists have to be willing to take that fan base on a lifelong journey. "And then you start going beyond that, and it's head-scratching time then. It was more like, could you do it for 20? Could you do it for 30?" Lawless said. The bandleader recently reflected on the enormity of a 40th-anniversary trek to UCR. "I've always thought the testament of a real career was not if an artist could do it for five years or for 10 years. "Do I owe it to the fan base to really make this a true retrospect of what we've done? If I had to give you an answer right now, I would say I'm leaning in the direction of doing it." You can't put the genie back in the bottle," he said. tour, which kicks off in October. "There's a part of me that says it's already out there. Lawless told Eddie Trunk in January that he was "leaning in the direction of" re-implementing "Animal" into the set list for W.A.S.P.'s upcoming 40th-anniversary U.S. hasn't played "Animal" live since 2006, as Lawless dropped the song from the band's set after becoming a born-again Christian.

Absent from the set list was the band's controversial debut single, " Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)," which made the PMRC's " Filthy 15" list of morally objectionable songs upon its release in 1984 and was consequently dropped from W.A.S.P.'s self-titled debut album.
