Alien Ant Farm frontman Dryden Mitchell has been talking to Rolling Stone about the future of the band after being involved in a bus crash last May. One of a number of band bus incidents this summer – the Ant Farm’s was probably the most serious – the driver was killed, Mitchell broke his neck, and all of the band and six crew members were injured.
"I'm getting better each week. People kept telling me everything was going to be OK, but I could feel it in the doctors' voices that it wasn't for sure. I broke my C-2 - Christopher Reeve broke the same one. And my bone flicked into my spinal cord. That's not good. I have a lot of nerve damage. Dead fingertips, so its hard to play the guitar, and if I move my head down, my arms fall asleep. Weird sensations."
He confirmed it will be a couple of months before the band returns to the studio. "No rush," he said. "I devote all my time to therapy. I've been riding a bike, which does me good, especially considering that the bike could have been a wheelchair."