"Al Pacino over Robert De Niro 'cause he didn't embarrass himself by doin' a bunch of weird comedies and shit later in his career." - Jack and Jill, anyone?
Why you question all of this shit if you have the opportunity to discover something interesting of great bands like this? McDonalds/Burguer King, Coca Cola/ Pepsi? Really?
Great artist. Saw him yesterday with Jerry Cantrell in Amsterdam. I felt bad for him because he was clearly not put in a position where he could express his full potential. Jerry should let him do all the singing and fronting. Greg is a radical guy, you want him to run on the crowd, bleeding all over etc…. Instead of being some sort of semi backing vocals figurative. It is like employing a brain surgeon and asking him to sweep the floor.
I’m replying 9 years later to point out that Greg went through a serious cocaine phase. And now he doesn’t even drink coffee anymore cause it gives him anxiety. Lol people really do change.
J. Deiss Yeah, i'd take back that comment from like a year ago. I'd take The Beatles over the Stones. Helter Skelter is a hell of a tune but i still think they're very overrated. They are experimental at times but there's only a select few songs i actually like. Rock has had better things to offer since then in my opinion.
@Yerbis Shmerpa Simply not true. The Beatles were definitely influenced by the Beach Boys - just as Brian Wilson was influenced by the Beatles - but their 'recording style' wasn't a copy, and they also pioneered a lot of techniques in studio recording e.g. arguably the first use of sampling and tape manipulation in popular music (Tomorrow Never Knows), inspired by Stockhausen's highly experimental 'Gesang der Jünglinge' this technique was previously reserved for avant garde Musique Concrete artists but now seen as a ubiquitous production technique and the basis of pretty a lot of hip hop & dance music. To be honest, that 1 song really ruins the whole 'unexperimental' argument in 3 minutes. Psychedelia, Indian drone music, pioneering drums, avant garde/musique concrete tape loops & sound manipulation, backwards guitars... all in 1966. Those who think the Rolling Stones were 'less safe' or less experimental are wide of the mark. The Beatles became famous due to their sweet 3 minute pop songs but their final albums were incredibly conceptual & experimental, and way more sonically diverse than the Stones back-catalogue.
Greg isn't vegan. I really doubt that he lets Ben and Liam decide what he's gonna eat for dinner lol. I bet they would both say BK though, because they have veggie burgers
I have the same opinions about breakdowns. You can't write a breakdown because your genre is known for it, or because people go nuts on it. You have to add a breakdown when it fits the song. That's why most breakdowns suck, actually.
shishkebab0dude666 Breakdowns are just used too much by some bands nowadays. Also what passes as a breakdown nowadays is a fairly mediocre display of lack of direction or creativity. Most bands that use breakdowns usually just chug open 0s the whole time and maybe through some dissonant diminished chord stuff in but it is always cool when a band has a really heavy riff that just happens to come in when there is a massive tempo change in a song. Those are what breakdowns should be, solid, groovy and heavy riffs that come in after a build-up as the tempo of the song decreases.
Oh man. I remember listening to Calculating Infinity just before or in the beginning of high school, and it blew my mind. Raw emotions and a total rejection of conventional song structure and almost everything holy and dear to mainstream music production, I guess that was what people who tried to combine theory of relativity with quantum mechanics, even the title fits perfectly, as infinities start popping up when you try to incorporate subatomic level effects into the calculations of inconceivably large cosmic scale. I'd even say that, like a bully beating you up every day because you're fat and do nothing about it, it punched me into changing my perspective on how things are done just in general. Their music is probably responsible for forcing me out of my comfort zone and make me apply critical thinking to everything, because if they can make such an abrasive hostile sound I couldn't previously possibly think I'd like, than things I used to take for granted and not even question it at all might not in fact be nearly the way they are presented. Not a spec of regret, even though it's probably also responsible for me making things way more difficult for myself. And now I find out that if Greg and I lived nearby, I'd probably consider him a great friend, since everything he said here is absolutely in accordance with what I think and how I feel. They turned my life into mathcore, and I love it.
Honestly, when he said that, it made me respect him so much as a musician for taking a stance like that, and I ended up buying a good portion of their discography.
Well they take most of the frame in every shot. Even live I mean most of the show what you see is body parts and instruments flying in and out from behind his mic arm.
I saw a top 10 intimidating metal musicians video, and Tom Araya and Greg Puciato were both on there. I knew Tom didn't belong, but seeing Greg here....how is he on that list as well? DANG! The broken-down Darth Vader voice from the interviewer, really took alot away from an otherwise great interview. I am definitely going to check out DEP.....Greg is epic.
these are all closed ended questions, yet he is constructing responses to all of them as if they were open ended. I wish all of the other bands that have done/ will do 25 questions do the same
It would have been interesting to hear Ben Weinman's response to these same questions (which inadvertently give more exposure to Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds etc.). Some of Greg's reactions are thought provoking but the questions certainly aren't.
this guy actually discusses the questions, contrary to other interviews (e.g. with ed from your demise) where the people being interviewd just blurt out obvious answers.
Wow. Greg and I are not in sync on any of those questions except that I don't care to advertise for companies by wearing crap with their brand across my chest.
I feel the same way about the Beatles. I wouldn't necessarily turn them off but I don't own any of their records and I tend to feel like they have quite a bit of filler on them.
that's exactly what i was thinking. the comedies De Niro did later in his career, especially the "meet the - " series were funny Jack and Jill, murdered Sandler's career and actually brought Pacino down a peg didnt that movie win an award for being soo bad? lmao
