1992, April,
or thereabouts, Max was feeling fatherly one night and out of nowhere, asked me
to have his child. I wasn't
surprised, or shocked or spooked...I just flowed and smiled. As our bus crossed into Italy a few
days later, unknown to me, I was carrying his son. I guess it was fate.
It was like the end of a good book whose ending you can predict. It just fit.
Max went
insane looking for a name, scouring books, wracking his brain, searching on the
horizon and everywhere in between.
I had settled on Genghis, but our friend Shane from Napalm Death got so
petrified when he heard the rumor, he petitioned us daily to keep looking! "Something normal, please
Gloria. Something normal,
please!!!" Max finally
cornered me one day as he does when he has the name of a new record and said,
"His name will be Zyon, with a 'y'." I was impressed!! He had done it!! Max had found a name that was nothing but original, cool as
all hell, and fitting of a Max son.
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| Zyon w/ Napalm Death |
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| Zyon w/ Mike Patton |
When Max
first peered into those big brown eyes, the addiction began. Soon our little
Sepultura mascot was one of the gang.
Never crying, always even tempered, he would forever be a positive force
in our life.
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| Zyon and Carnival Jim at the Sacred Reich making of the Crawling video |
In the first
year of Zyon's life, he went with us to record Chaos AD and also bussed around
the world on all the tours. He
became the star at all the concerts, stealing the limelight from his father,
when no one thought it possible!
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| letter and photo of Z with Dave Grohl |
Andreas
especially loved Z from the moment of his first cuddle. There was magic in Zyon's smile. Andreas said many times he was Z's
Godfather. Even when we all flew,
Zyon never cried one time. While
the other children on the plane were screaming bloody murder, Zyon was content
with reading, happily playing, and doo-doo-dahing. He had a beat going in his head at birth.
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| Max, Z, and Me |
I look now
at our 21-year-old son, headphones on at a beat machine 24/7, making beats all
day long. He is not only a natural
born drummer, but a beat maestro extraordinaire. They flow through his brain like the riffs flow through his
father's and his brother, Igor's.
There are beats in there no one has dreamt of. They are just waiting to burst out! And I recall his youth, standing in the
bus lounge arranging pillows as snares and cymbals, pulsating to Bored by the
Deftones, with his brother, Dana, bouncing next to him. The legacy flows through Z; the Uncle
Iggor stick of dynamite is always lit.
His time
has come, slowly creeping in, no way to go but to stay on the path that was
predetermined by his ROOTS. Who
knows the future? No one. Who can imagine the future? Everyone!
Happy
birthday, Zyon!! You are a
locomotive!!!
Soulfly - "Bloodshed" w/Zyon on Drums
Lody Kong - "mOnkeys alWays Look" w/Zyon on Drums
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