The lead singer of Alien Ant Farm talks about being in deadly tour bus crash, the number of girls he's been with, Michael Jackson's response to their cover of Smooth Criminal and more!
I chilled with AAF on their tour bus back in 2011 before a show in NYC....these guys are genuinely nice and they really care about their fans. They played two acoustic songs and were giving out beers..really cool, I never will forget that day. Thanks Dryden and company.
Yea . . . It's Rover (WMMS). I can't listen to the station in the morning anymore because his show is a tremendous insult to my intelligence. His other members of his "cast" are so unbelievably stupid that they actually make him seem intelligent.
What's wrong with this interviewer why is he being douchey about the questions he's asking?! U could literally ask the same questions in a different way...
Their second album truant is unbelievably underrated. I think it runs laps around the first record. It’s catchy, groovy and at times, even becomes very experimental. There is one song where they completely play around with Latin jazz and it’s amazing. I’m really quite surprised that album did not elevate them to a bigger status.
Smooth Criminal was definitely their most known, and most played song. But anyone who explores music beyond what's just on the radio knows how great they actually are tough.
Been a fan of AAF for a time now, though not overly, other than 'These Days' being easily one of my top 20 songs of all time, I'm recently getting into the albums more, purchased FAF, and really getting into them now. After this interview, respect level has increased and I hope, REALLY hope more albums are in the future!
agreed, been a lover for over a decade but never heard the story of the artists. and wow. Im more a fan now than I ever could have been. I really wanna hear the true back story to 'These days' if anyone has any leads plz dm me
This was such an awful interview, their anthology album was an amazing album and he should have focused on that instead of adding to the "your only known for one song" thing
Whenever these guys came to Portland OR my dad was basically who they hung out with and my dad woke up with dryden runnin around naked in the earlt 2000s
Cool interview. I saw them in Riverside on March 16, 2001 at the Rocks club I think it was? Funny I was from Orange county too and moved to Riverside and am the same age as Dryden. I wanted to be in a rock band but it never really happened for me. Now I just write books.
Why does the radio host sounds like he wants to bother Dryden because of Smooth Criminal being their first single and breakthrough success? it was a brilliant cover! one of the best covers ever! but MOVIES is more like their anthem
I never heard of Rover before, but I'm not sure why he is getting so much hate in this interview. People love what Dryden was saying and how honest he was. He was telling great stories because he was being asked the kind of questions to get him to spill that much information. I say job well done. I think Dryden felt comfortable with Rover, and getting someone to feel comfortable and be brutally honest is not easy.
it was because of the Smooth Criminal song I searched for other songs by The Band. now I have all 5 albums and they are my favourite albums of all time!!!!
I utterly despise the whole “I don’t need to be polite cuz I says it how it is! I says it straight!”-style of radio host. They get talented artists on their couch and they “put stuff bluntly” and passive aggressively “Say what the people at home are thinkin’!!” but really it’s just them thinking it. Kudos to him for a moment of brief self-deprecation with his looks, but when he says how being on the radio makes up for that kind of proves me right. They want to be in that world of music and artists, but haven’t created a single thing, themselves. No research. Bitter. Insecure. Just the worst.
This is a great interview! I'm a hip hop artist. But I had their first CD. This interview is way more interesting than I thought. Props to the dj for asking all the right questions.
I love the music video and it fits the song but 02:55 «one of the most expensive videoes for that time» i so doubt that. Or I can believe they mismanaged the money so badly, but the video does in no way reflect that statement. There is absolutely nothing impressive about the video. It’s a video with a bunch of kids jumping around a wrestling ring and a sidewalk with lights on. How on earth did that become on of the most expensive videoes lol.
I bought their album when I heard movies the first time it was released. Before smooth criminal. To this day movies is one of my all time favorite songs
This was Cleveland. This is Cleveland's wanna be Howard Stern. They went to Chicago at one point to make the show bigger in that attempt, and they failed there, and then came back to Cleveland. For whatever reason, they have/had a big following in Cleveland unfortunately.
