Metal Muthas: Baroness’s Joh Dyer Baizley’s Mutha, Sue Baizley
I was told it’s hard for you to take breaks during the day—what do you do for a living?
I’m a psychiatric occupational therapist. I work with soldiers that are in transition between being deployed and wherever it is they’re gonna go: back to their unit, back to their homes, discharged. I got into it because it’s kind of a creative field. When I went to school, one of the big requirements was that you had, if not an art background, at least an interest in thinking outside of the box.
That would seem to explain at least
one of John’s passions.
His Christmas presents were always art materials until I bought him his first guitar at 7 or 8. I bought him a snare drum before that. Everyone said, “I can’t believe you’d buy a kid a snare drum!” And I’m like, “Well, I wanna know where he is.” [Laughs]
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