Rest in peace to the universally beloved Andy "The Butcher" Williams of Every Time I Die, Atomic Rule and All Elite Wrestling. When it comes to leading by example, Andy was THE ultimate example to follow from the moment you met him. A beacon of kindness, the benchmark of cool, and an unbreakable pillar of love and support to everyone in his life. To know Andy was to love Andy, but more importantly, to know Andy was to feel loved by Andy.
Andy was our second ever guest on HardLore, and technically our 3rd ever recorded episode. In his honor, we've upscaled this original episode to 4K to preserve this important conversation in the highest possible quality. We will love and miss Andy forever and I can't wait to hear the band that he and Bo will surely be working on. Goodbye my friend.
Originally aired May 11th, 2022:
"Colin and Bo welcome Andy Williams to the show to recount some of his favorite tour stories, from his early days touring with Buried Alive, his long tenure with Every Time I Die, and how he went on to be able to balance his music career with wrestling full time for AEW as half of The Butcher and The Blade."
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00:00:00 - Remembering Andy Williams
00:05:29 - 10 Bell Salute
00:05:58 - HardLore Episode 4: Andy Williams
00:07:01 - The Parallels Between Music & Wrestling
00:11:53 - What Set Andy on a New Path
00:17:13 - Andy & Buried Alive
00:22:54 - Andy's Music Taste Refining
00:30:08 - Andy Asks the Worst Places We've Stayed On Tour
00:35:22 - ETID's 1 Star Hotel Gimmick
00:39:19 - Andy Tour Stories
00:48:04 - Balancing AEW & ETID
00:52:32 - Andy Loves Little Gear Now, Tour Stories Cont.
00:58:29 - Wrestlers and Their Musical Interests
01:03:27 - Wrestling Is Songwriting
01:11:16 - ETID Setting the Example For Touring Bands
01:16:45 - Andy on the End of ETID
