Exodus guitarist was among half a dozen people on the Bay Strikes Back tour to test positive. Gary Holt knows what it's like to be the last band out the door.
His metal group, Exodus, was on the epic European tour The Bay Strikes Back 2020 with Testament and Death Angel in March when everything had changed almost overnight. "We flew home the morning the president shut down all flights outside of anyone who was an American [on March 12]," says Holt 55, in an interview with Billboard last week following his personal battle with COVID-19.
The monthlong tour kicked off in February and had only two dates left (in Milan, Italy, and Hanover, Germany), when the bands had to call it quits as European nations began to lock down in an effort to slow