DISTURBED Frontman 'Understands' C.O.C.'s Frustration Over Poor Reception On JÄGERMEISTER Tour

January 26, 2006

DISTURBED vocalist David Draiman has commented on CORROSION OF CONFORMITY frontman Pepper Keenan's characterization of C.O.C.'s recent tour as the opening act for DISTURBED as "the dumbest thing we've ever done in our lives."

In a December 2005 interview with StonerRock.com, Keenan stated about the then-still-ongoing DISTURBED tour, "It's fucking ridiculous. It's nothing… it's the dumbest thing we've ever done in our lives." Asked about the fact that C.O.C. had put the song "Albatross" back into their live set, Pepper said, "We're going to switch it around even more, but we just don't feel like it with the stupid crowd [at the DISTURBED shows] . . I mean, it's over their head. The average DISTURBED fan is just a shopping mall… they're not music fanatics by any stretch of the musicians. I can't say that about everybody, but from what I've seen, they're just… Hot Topic kind of whatever. It's kind of a drag, because the standards of music get lowered by things like that. It ain't my place to say anything, but we consider ourselves to playing music of some degree. Off the cuff. We fall on our ass sometimes going on some of those jams and shit, but at least we're doing something. We're evolving somehow. If you ain't evolving, you ain't doing shit, in my opinion."

Speaking to Jolene of Seattle's 99.9 KISW on January 7, Draiman was asked how the band's first leg of the Jägermeister Music Tour — featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY in the opening slot — went.

"Great… [pause] I guess," he said. "Apparently Pepper wasn't too happy with the tour, or his situation or whatever, but… I mean, we're huge fans of C.O.C. and we were very happy to have them on the bill. It was kind of an awkward situation, I guess, for them at times, because maybe our audience was not as receptive as he would have liked, and I understand. I wish it would have been different for them. But we loved having them. They were great every night so…"

Listen to David Draiman' entire 10-minute interview with 99.9 KISW at this location (Windows Media).

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