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 Topic: InterviewsThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Shavo Odadjian: You Always Have To Top Yourself
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| Posted by 2eroSOAD on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 04:54 PM |
There’s
been plenty of talk about whether or not System Of A Down is on a
permanent hiatus, but bassist Shavo Odadjian made it quite clear in a
recent interview with Ultimate-Guitar that he doesn’t intend on ever tossing his
platinum-selling group to the wayside. The time off has been all about exploring
new creative outlets, and since the break was announced, Odadjian could easily
be described as the most prolific member.
It’s true that Odadjian has been recording an album with his hip-hop project
Achozen, but it’s his work away from the traditional band format that should
likely draw the most attention. His grandest endeavor has been launching UrSession.com, a new website that was created in response to the rapidly dying
major label system. The site gives musicians the opportunity to essentially
audition for a record contract via uploaded videos or audio. And who exactly is
the judge of all the video submissions? We are. |
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Daron Malakian Lost in Hollywood
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| Posted by ZAk on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 07:54 AM |
In the mid-1980s, Daron Malakian was a shy youngster living in an
apartment near the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine Street, and
his parents spent much of their time trying to shield his eyes from the seedy
parade of Hollywood's sidewalks.
"From the playground of my school," Malakian recalled, "we would see prostitutes
and transvestites, guys holding hands, the homeless people, all these things my
parents really didn't want me to see."
That playground was at the Rose and Alex Philibos Armenian School, the same
campus where two other future members of the metal band System of a Down went to
class. There, all of the boys were immersed in the traditions of their shared
Armenian heritage, but when they rode their bikes home they passed through that
chaotic asphalt theater of Hollywood. "It was only as I got older that I
realized that not everybody grows up like that," Malakian said. |
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Call Of The Wild
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| Posted by cozmachina on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 10:22 PM |
 With the release of his first solo album, Elect The Dead, System Of A Down
frontman Serj Tankian contemplates a return to nature.
To get to Serj Tankian's house, you have to take a long, winding, and
occasionally very narrow road that snakes through the verdant hills of
Calabasas, California. It's a beautiful and peaceful place, with bushy threes
and rolling canyons as far as the eye can see, and it seems a world away from
the toxic sprawl of nearby Los Angeles. But like so many once-remote areas of
Southern California, Tankian's secluded neighborhood is beginning to feel the
fetid breath of encroaching development on the back of its neck. Nearly three
years ago, when Revolver came up here to interview him about System of a Down's
sister albums, Mesmerize and Hypnotize, the area seemed to be home to the more
horses than humans; this time, as our car makes its way past one new building
site after another, it's apparent that Tankian will soon have more company up
here than he'd probably prefer. |
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A little inside scoop from Greg Watermann and Isaac Flores
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| Posted by poisonedangel7 on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 11:42 AM |
 I had a chance to ask Greg Waterman, director of the
“Praise The Lord, Pass the Ammunition” video and Isaac
(Eye-Sack) Flores a photographer that attended the video shoot a few questions.
Greg was given this video to direct
as Serj thinks it is the most insane unlike the talented Mr. Watermann. Of
course I am kidding, here are the responses from two very talented
individuals…….. |
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The lanky, wiry System of a Down bassist
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| Posted by AK on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 01:45 PM |
Shavo
Odadjian is not the type of man one can summarize with a pithy one-sentence
description. The lanky, wiry System of a Down bassist, who looks like
Anton LaVey with a long, braided goatee that would make Rapunzel jealous, is a
complex man whose many passions include food, film, cars, rugby and women (not
necessarily in that order), in addition to music.
In person, Shavo can be as
intense and self-assured as he is onstage, but, as he demonstrates w hen he dons
a creepy mask during our photo shoot, he can also be jocular, even lighthearted.
This is what Shavo had to say in old 2005 interview with Bass Guitar magazine
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