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When the drummer tested positive they called us immediately. They loaded up and drove back to Detroit which is a very stand-up thing. The first guy to get sick was Negative Approach’s drummer. On that leg of this tour, we played like eight shows. I recommend to everyone going into Florida to wear a mask everywhere you go because the people down there don’t give a fuck. We did an East Coast/Southeast run and we played four shows in Florida. Greg (Hetson, guitar) and Zander (Schloss, bass) both had Covid. MORRIS: I don’t want to jinx myself but everyone around me has had Covid. Do you need to be extra mindful because of your diabetes? Did you worry about that before you hit the road? With Covid, there are lots of new precautions.

At the end of this, we’ll have played about 80 to 85 shows. Negative Approach has been fucking shredding every night. On this leg, we have 7 Seconds and Negative Approach opening all the shows. Everyone is saying great things about what is happening. We’re finally out here now and having a great time. So, remember, any time you can support independent businesses and the moms and pops. All of the little guys and gals got stepped on and left behind. Like the majority of Americans who don’t own e-commerce companies. We were running around struggling to make it. So this tour was first booked in 2019 and we hit a wall. They really pulled our asses out of the fire. During the pandemic, we signed a deal with Trust Records, and that helped pay some bills. It was just enough to pay rent so it really helped. We lucked out because there was government aid and we got checks every so often. At the beginning of Covid, we all wondered how we would pay our bills. We’ve since had two years off since the Group Sex anniversary. Otherwise, my voice gets completely thrashed – what an ex-girlfriend calls “the garbage can.” The idea was to do a string of dates over seven months and go pretty much anywhere that would have us. I can only do three shows in a row so things need to be planned well. When we were placed in lockdown we had about seven months of dates lined up. MORRIS: We had a conversation about getting out there a year before the pandemic. You were supposed to go on the road pre-pandemic for the 40th anniversary of Group Sex. It’s been 15 years since you’ve been on the road with Circle Jerks. I’d be freezing my ass off looking at the pyramids in Egypt. MORRIS: I’d be freezing my ass off in the Bahamas.

I don’t think you’d be freezing in Minneapolis right now if you had that $18 million. They did one for Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins.

He sneezes or coughs and there is a stack of thousand-dollar bills in front of him. MORRIS: I think what they did is called a few of my friends and they said he’s equal to the U.S. Where did they even get that figure from? I was surprised to do a Google search for “Keith Morris” and learn you are worth $18 million. Morris talked to us from his hotel room in Minneapolis about what it’s like to be back out with Circle Jerks after nearly two decades and what’s next. The Circle Jerks reunion tour, with rotating support from Decibel favorites Municipal Waste, 7 Seconds, and others, has been wildly successful and continues through mid-May before heading to Europe (complete itinerary here). But with COVID at its lowest rates since the summer after vaccines first became available Morris is back on the road. Like many of us, Morris scrambled to pay bills and keep a roof over his head during the pandemic. As it turns out, there were still many chapters to be written in the book of Morris.

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Check out a full list of dates below, and grab tickets here.When Decibel last caught up with hardcore OG and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris more than five years ago he’d just finished work on his critically acclaimed memoir My Damage. The band will have support from Negative Approach, Adolescents and 7Seconds. The release coincides with the February kickoff of the Circle Jerk's 40th Anniversary Tour. A lavish 20-page, full-color 12-by-12-inch booklet created for this release assembles historic photographs, club flyers and an 8,200-word essay by veteran Los Angeles journalist Chris Morris, including new interviews with founding band members Keith Morris, Greg Heston and Lucky Lehrer.” The Wild in the Streets rerelease includes, “remastered audio by Pete Lyman and rare April 1982 live performances of material from the band’s first two albums, captured at the Elite Club in San Francisco.