The Dillinger Escape Plan's Ben Weinman - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? 

He is one of the most influential and creative songwriters/guitar players out there. Definitely deserves more recognition. Some of Dillinger's stuff is just absolutely breathtaking.

I remember being a total new metal fanboy and I went to see system of a down at Manchester and Dillinger where supporting , they literally tore my face off I had never experienced such energy in a band or music which I couldn't understand and it changed my life forever , I remember asking one of the band at the side of the stage for an autograph and he was shocked I had asked lol.

In order to make such complex music you have to be in it for the music, not fame or money. Because there is no way you could ever break into the mainstream.

They look like brothers, lol.

I first met Ben after "Under the Running Board", but before "Calculating Infinity", and several times since. Always a great guy, so personable. One of the greats.

I had seen a lot of interviews with Ben Weinman and in all interviews he had that facial expression of a shy kid with a lot of insecurities, very tense pose while talkin' with the interviewer, but during live shows? shit, the stage is his, all the fuckin' audience is from him to him, he's in his Dillinger softly insane world, and I apreciate that very much. And that left eyebrow always high.. wtf.

I waited literally for years for WFoF with him and this was absolutely worth the wait. Thank you so much, Loudwire and Graham for doing such an amazing job. The level of production and professionalism is increasing with every episode. Keep up the great work!

its about time these guys became big. I first heard them on smackdown vs raw 2006.

Graham, you are my favorite interviewer ever

Get Kurt Ballou on one of these

I'd love to be the interviewer on here, he meets so many awesome bands

Get mike patton dammit

one of the greatest bands ever. sad to see them ending dillinger but at least we got a lot of great music

do Mike Patton!

Hell yeah mr bungle

The Dillinger Escape PlanThe best band name ever

On the subject of Dillinger not being commercial: they played “Black Bubblegum” (one of their most accessible by the mainstream, “poppy” songs) on Conan, ostensibly to promote Ire Works. I like to imagine the normie who bought the album based on what they thought of “Black Bubblegum” and what they must have thought of the rest of the album.

Get brent hinds on this show!

oh, what i would do to hear those Dillinger vocal submissions...

Been waiting a long time for this. Yes.

Do Deftones

How could he hate Calculating Infinity? Best thing they ever did, maybe tied with Irony is a dead scene.

The person he is talking about at 6:56 is jeff wood, who also was the singer for a band called SHAT. Seriously one of the best/weirdest bands ever. Ben would occasionally play drums for SHAT live as well. watch?v=EPoZBy95onY

I'm trying to remember if 2005 was when I saw them play with Coheed and Cambria, because I remember it being a big deal that Ben wasn't there because he never took time off. And then after that tour, Dillinger's drummer left to join Coheed.

Calculating infinity changed my life

Wow.. So Ben's relationship with Greg involves a lot of tugging and pulling :-D

Discovered them with 43% burnt and was addicted. Now I'm just a random "fan" of their stuff including their side project. Simple dudes with skills and humour

I loved this band early on. I was listening to them in early 2000s all the way in MN. So they were clearly doing something right.

Favorite bandddddd

I really want to hear the audition tapes now :D

Can you do a suggestions box or something on the website for who we want to see next?

i need a 10 hour loop of ben air-drumming

Finally! One of the only few metal bands I really love (other being Meshuggah), but at some point every band has to call it quits. I hope their next album will be a blast so they'll go out with even a bigger bang. Dillinger, you will be remembered

just a rad dude!

We send in a gnarly entry!

Saw them for the first time randomly with Dimitri on vocals with Snapcase in 01

Seems like a really cool dude.

Love Ben, probably my favourite guitar player ever.

I got too meet him at a Suicidal tendencies show he was blended in the crowd also a very humble and approachable person. I didn't even know he was in Suicidal tendencies at the time 😅.

That’s WILD that Ben and the band didn’t like how Calculating Infinity came out at first. But it makes sense from the perspective that it was really uncharted territory for music, so it was probably hard to grasp what they did

Please try and get Steph Carpenter from Deftones on this show!!

6:42 -- Pretty sure he's talking about Jeff Wood, aka SHAT. Check him out. Absolutely wild, profoundly vulgar performer.

How do you put on shows like that touring for 5 years straight? It's remarkable they're not ALL paralyzed.

Didnt know Adam Sandler was in Dillinger

it's ok to eat fish cuz they don't have any feelings.

High on Fire! 🤘

Hearing that the other guys in mr bungle didn’t like calculating infinity is surprising

An Alexi Laiho or At the Gates fact or fiction would be fucking awesome.

I’d forgotten all about Giraffe Tongue Orchestra.

Hey Graham you should do Keith Morris

How bout fact or fiction with Matt Tuck from bullet for my valentine, Tom Delonge from Blink 182, and James Hetfield from Metallica.

The thumbnail to this vid makes him look like Nikola Tesla.

+ Metal Marauder No, I'm 16 and I forgot that I had the caps lock on.

so what happened with Murphy's law and dillenger escape plan

Still waiting for Tosin Abasi!

Yaaaaaayyyy!!!

Do Jeff Waters from Annihilator Please

7:17 yes

Who woulda thought he was working a regular corporate job one day, and then a few yrs later would be hanging upside down by his legs from the ceilings rafters at the Beaumont club in Kc mo. I remember him doing that…wonder if he does?…he’s straight edge so probably so lol. That explains why the other guys from DEP that I met after the show were all asking me…”how do you get to Westport” 😂 (bars) Epic show!

You guys f****** rock!!!.

how the hell has ben met lauryn hill? crazy yo

Do a Maynard James Keenan fact or fiction plz

way to follow up on the L. Hill goss...come on my man!

1 minute in and I love Infected Mushroom more.

The Adam Sandler of metal.

Got into DEP way too late. I saw them with Red Fang supporting Mastadon in Bristol a few years ago and to this day I kick myself for not listening to them before hand. The crowd was on a mad one and my friends and I were just stoned as fuck in the back waiting for the headliners like idiots.

Could I just ask why you would expect a bassist suffering from brain damage due to being shot in the head to play bass FOR The Dillinger Escape Plan. Even normal functioning human beings wouldn't remember every beat of a TDEP song - let alone someone brain damaged!

Norma Jean interview!

do chelsea grin

interview m.shadows and some Sabbath members

Wikipedia fact or fiction with Rush

7:19 did ben just make fun of a guy who, used to be their bassist, and then got shot in the head???

Pls loudwire,wikipedia fact or fiction whit anybody from static-x band,pls.

He's 41?!

Will you ever do an interview with Amon Amarth

whew got here under 200 views.

Get biff Byford from saxon!!! That would be epic. Or Sam Carter from architects...

Ozzy? No?

why did the original singer leave???

Dude looks like an Adam Sandler deep-fake

Watched a dude do at one of their shows in Pittsburgh. Show was sick tho. Fire blowing, all kinds of shit.

Wikipedia fact or fiction with Jonathan Davis

Grahm? What the heck?

Gruhammad looks like a hipster, when don t he have long hair no more, his hair looks great.

What has been burnt by only 43%?

So much avoided eye contact. What is that about?

Top 10 metal singers with no tattoos

Ben is starting to look like the archetypal old jewish man.

You are sure you guys aren't brothers?

Mother: "we have got Marshall's at home..." Home:...... Whoever thought it would be cool to put a cheap Marshall in the background like its "rock n roll" or some shit? big L, hold that L. Anyone who has ever owned a guitar and actually learned at least 3 chords (so a huge portion of rock and metal fans), knows its a cheap practice/my first Jam space amp. Literally no good albums have ever been tracked with that amp (possible random band in some obscure part of the world with low living wage and little to no music gear distribution, but other than that). It's not a Plexi, an 800 or even 900 that most people hate, or a modern day cheap made DSL or Origin, it's not even a Valvestate ( the old budget Marshall range that has more recently become somewhat sought after), its an MG ....which means it dd not cost more than £/$200 and probably less than 150, and as far as budget amps good , is not even considered that good

33rd

LOVE The Fugees & Wyclef's album The Carnival. Too bad he stole all that charity $ from Haiti during their crisis. Shame.

You need to interview James Hetfield or Mushroomhead

is nobody talking about his strangely colored beard? no hate pls explain

First. Am I cool now?

Get Mike Patton, you cowards

Who?

DO AVENGED SEVENFOLD, NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!