And that began an odyssey that’s led all the way to here.” They always do that thing where they act like they’re going to be cool to you if you cooperate and then as soon as they’ve got you, they step on your head and they’ve got their knee in my neck and my face is in the cement. I just rolled the window down, put my hands out. I just sat there in the car for like 5 minutes and I thought, ‘If I just get out of this car and run in any direction, it’ll be over.’ And I had been suffering for so long with mental torment, emotional torment, physical illness, I was so at the end of my rope. They were on the bullhorn saying, ‘Roll down the window and put your hands out the window.’ They wanted me to put my hands out to show them I didn’t have a weapon. And they had me cornered with cops everywhere … I saw the cops had blocked off the street I couldn’t go right because there were cops there and I just pulled sideways in the middle of the intersection, like in a movie, and I was surrounded by all these cops. “The night I got arrested, I got in this car chase because that’s what we do in L.A. I didn’t care whether I lived or died,” Forrest says over a video chat in early November, on the eve of the presidential election and, more importantly, the digital release of Thelonious Monster’s first album in 16 years and first album with all the members of the classic lineup since 1992’s Beautiful Mess. “The day I got arrested, that led to me being in jail for so long, and then getting sober and then turning my life around, if you had asked me that night, ‘Is this a good day or a bad day?,’ I’d say ‘This is the worst fucking day ever!’ But I look back on it like it was a godsend, it was a miracle. Forrest, who has led the band Thelonious Monster since 1984, hit rock bottom in 1996 and made the very conscious choice not to let the demons win in what, looking back, could be considered a life-or-death decision. punk scene, his decades long battle with substances, and his subsequent sobriety. Drew as well as in the 2011 documentary Bob and The Monster which chronicled Forrest’s beginnings in the L.A. Bob Forrest’s story has been well documented through both his appearance on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
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