A ways back we posted NJ Hall Of Famers Dillinger Escape Plan's video for "Milk Lizard" and discussed their more radio-friendly Faith No More sound. We didn't post their "Black Bubblegum" video, but would've brought up Faith No More again if we had. I'm a fan of Ire Works, but you can't ignore that on it, they do often sound different than even something relatively recent like Miss Machine's "Panasonic Youth, to keep it on the level of singles, videos they're making.
All this buildup because when you make your sound easier for people to digest, you do end up playing shows with bands like Chicago-based "Down With The Sickness" metallers Disturbed.Or at least watching their soundchecks. And that can lead to arguments. Dillinger guitarist/only original member Ben Weinman dissed Disturbed in an interview with the Australian magazine Beat, claiming that he saw the guys choreographing every one of their last moves during a soundcheck. He says, "[they were] practicing where they were going to walk and when they were going to put their leg up on the monitor and pose ... That was weird for us. There are times [during live shows] where I don't even know where I am." Disturbed frontman David Draiman responded.
Via Blabbermouth:
Speaking to Bob Coburn of the nationally syndicated radio show Rockline for an episode which aired this past Monday (June 2), Draiman said, "I'm actually very confused by [Weinman's comments], 'cause, to be honest with you, we don't normally let anybody around when we're checking or we don't pay attention to it, number one. Number two is I don't ever remember playing with the guys, to be honest with you. I don't know what they were doing there. I don't ever remember having them open for us, so ... I don't even know what the hell they're talking about. And then as far as 'rehearsing moves,' I mean, I don't know who the hell they think we are -- we're not N'SYNC; we're not going up there with choreography or something like that, trying to rehearse. 'This is when I put my foot on the monitor here.' [Laughs] No one cares about that. But when it's time for Danny [Donegan, Disturbed guitarist] to hit his guitar solo, yeah, he needs to be in a particular cued spot so that the lights go to that focus point, when there's a little particular fill in the song. It's called production -- it's what any big professional band that isn't just punk rock ... Not to say that there is anything wrong with punk rock, because I have my roots in it, but you can't compare the two styles of a show. The Dillinger Escape Plan are more punk and I respect them for what they do -- I'm not even calling them out on any level, in any way shape or form. I like the style of what they do. I don't understand what the hell they think they saw with us, but gentlemen, let me give you a little bit of education: This is what the big boys do who play stadium shows -- they wanna worry about how the lights look that they spend so much money on."
"Not to say that there is anything wrong with punk rock, because I have my roots in it." Watch Disturbed's cover of "Land Of Confusion" and this 2005 footage of DEP while you mull.
