Everyone and their mother is flocking to Nashville , and musicians are no exception. Many of which are coming to Middle TN from California, and one of them is Tommy Clufetos, drummer for Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, and Rob Zombie.
He appeared on the X5 Podcast recently, and he talked about his decision to move to Nashville from Los Angeles in 2022, and yes, he knows he’s “that person…”
During the podcast, he said (transcribed by Blabbermouth):
“I’ve semi recently moved to Tennessee from Los Angeles, just like 80 other million people. And when I moved there, I had California plates on my car and I would get the ‘look at that jerkoff. Look at him. I see you.’ And I would roll down my window, ‘I see you looking at my plates.’ And I got my own plates now. But now when I see a California plate, I’m like, ‘Look at that a**hole.'”
Needless to say, he’s getting much more gratification from living in the Nashville area (“15 to 20 minutes south”… Franklin?) than he was in Cali. He continued:
“I love where I live, and I don’t like to leave the house, and when I do, I like the area that I leave the house around. I like when I go into a nice grocery store. I like when I go to get gas and I’m not gonna get mugged. It’s a great convenience. LA was kind of getting like — even in the nice places, you may have to… I went back and forth doing some work and stuff, and it’s like the apocalypse out there, man. It’s, like, what the hell is going on?”
“LA was cool, but I never felt it there. I never felt like I fit in. I never felt a part of it because it’s not really my scene. And Nashville’s cool, man. Everybody gets along and people can play a little better in there.”
He was pretty enthusiastic in talking about the “southern hospitality” Nashville has that LA doesn’t, among a ton of other things. Watch the full episode of the podcast below, or read more from Blabbermouth HERE.
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