Meet Disturbed's amazing frontman David Draiman, The Man Who Speaks Only In Cliches

"It's a jungle out there, man... and this is war!"

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, you know?"

do they give a 110% I need to know

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We wanted to be able to recharge our creative batteries

All I wanna know is, is that your typo or did the mag's editor really allow the phrase "take the reigns" to make it into print?

"reigns" made it to print

no 'we just do what we do and if anyone else likes it it's a bonus'? for shame

gotta be the classic "actually, we never left"

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is this guy related to nick swisher y/n

I interviewed this guy twice, and no matter what the ostensible topic was, all he wanted to talk about was how enraged he was when dudes at his shows flipped him off. "WHEN YOU DO THAT, THAT MEANS SOMETHING! THAT MEANS YOU ARE DISRESPECTING ME, AND THAT MEANS I WANNA FUCKING KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS!!"

would you say he was... disturbed by being flipped off

I'm not saying the guy's smart, but imagine what it's like to be in a commercially-successful band. Countless interviews filled with the the same questions. "Where do you get your ideas," "When can we expect album," etc. Sooner or later, it seems to me that you'd have to start answering with cliches just to say sane.

Dude's a mook and I could care less about his band.

But... When he was playing Ozzfest one year (I went to try and figure out which year but Disturbed played it a LOT of times and I went several years so it was either 2001, 2003 or 2006 and it was in Columbus, Ohio) he spent the whole time on his bike around the second stage watching the smaller bands and talking to anyone who came up to him, having a blast.

So good on him! Shame about the music.

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/793959852645253121

that makes so much sense

I interviewed this guy twice, and no matter what the ostensible topic was, all he wanted to talk about was how enraged he was when dudes at his shows flipped him off. "WHEN YOU DO THAT, THAT MEANS SOMETHING! THAT MEANS YOU ARE DISRESPECTING ME, AND THAT MEANS I WANNA FUCKING KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS!!"

I interviewed him three times, and we talked about all kinds of things - my impression has always been that he's smart, just not as smart as he thinks he is. That being said, my reading of his personality (which is bolstered by Serj Tankian referring to him, in my presence, as "Gene Simmons Jr.") makes me think he was probably peacocking for you. He seems like one of those dudes who thinks "it's not necessarily guaranteed that this female journalist wants to fuck me, but she might, so I'll approach this conversation with that in mind".

(If you're not actually female, then I don't know what to tell you.)

iirc, they aren't.

i interviewed him four times

i interviewed him once - we spent the whole time talking about yeshiva

i have not interviewed the lead singer of disturbed

i often mix him up with aaron lewis from staind (?)

no wait what's the south african band. is that trapt? aaron lewis is the nu metal guy who went all 'country' right

trapt

staind

lewis=staind=right wing country dude now

seether is the shitty band i was trying to think of

aaron lewis 'country boy' is a very unintentionally hilarious song

When I was EIC of Metal Edge, the publicist for Seether got very testy with me because I wouldn't put them on the cover.

well why didn't you

So you can fight the Seether...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLGHzxgRPM

seether is the shitty band i was trying to think of

A friend of mine dated the lead singer for a few years. He was ... not a good guy.

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(Inspired by the realization that, despite having encountered countless jokey evocations of the title, I had somehow never actually heard 'Down With the Sickness' before yesterday. It was...

...an experience.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q97yFlJ8F4

Chicago Bulls fans noticed a rather significant absence at the team's games this week: its six championship banners. As it turns out, there was a reason for that, and it doesn't make the story any more normal.

Per the Chicago Tribune, the banners were removed after sustaining "minor damage" during a concert featuring hard rock acts Disturbed, Three Days Grace and Sevendust, which reportedly used pyrotechnics directly underneath the banners.