In a latest episode of The Disc Dive, System of a Down‘s frontman Serj Tankian opened up concerning the band’s early days and the nerve-racking expertise of opening for the legendary Slayer within the late Nineties. Tankian candidly summed it up by saying: “We have been fucking scared.”
“We have been fucking scared, bro, on stage. It was bootcamp, simply surviving, studying the best way to work an viewers. ‘Trigger Slayer audiences will hate everybody else, clearly. However that brings again numerous recollections, as a result of it was our first tour as properly. And Daron was all glammed out. I had, like, bizarre shit on my face. And they might have a look at us, like, ‘Who the fuck are these fucking idiots?’ And we needed to impress from, like, not simply base zero level, however damaging level. We needed to stand up there and rating factors. And that, my pal, was unimaginable bootcamp as touring artists, that basically, actually sort of made us. It molded us.”
Tankian recount of the band’s first brush with the thrash legends matches the feedback of System of a Down‘s drummer John Dolmayan, who some years in the past reminisced concerning the expertise in a dialog with the Let There Be Discuss podcast, saying: “Our first tour was with Slayer, and after you play in entrance of a Slayer crowd, every little thing else is straightforward. And so they have been very accepting of us, very supportive, and the individuals have been tremendous good to us, and they might truly pay attention.””
Regardless of their preliminary fears, in keeping with Dolmayan, him and his bandmates have been met with nothing however encouragement from Slayer: “Tom Araya got here as much as us and stated, ‘Let me know in case you have issues,’ and they might watch us each evening, they have been so good to us and supportive and good individuals, and I miss them dearly.”
“I miss Jeff. He was such a very good man. He would share music with us and are available hang around with us, and we have been simply this little band driving round in an RV. We bought to know Lombardo as properly on the time. He is a candy man, and Bostaph, in fact, was a really good man, nice drummer. Our first tour within the U.S. was with them, and so they took us to Europe as properly, and it was us, Slayer and Sepultura. What an incredible trio that was — an incredible expertise for us.” Dolmayan added.
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