We have tried to stay out of this little "beef" that is manifesting between the DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN and DISTURBED. In case you are not in the loop yet, our buddy Axl Rosenberg over at MetalSucks wrote a pretty fantastic piece on the whole situation a few weeks back. This gist of it was: Dillinger guitarist Ben Weinman talked about seeing Disturbed's sound check and his amazement at how rehearsed everything was, even down to where to stand for solos, to which Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan was all like "We sell more records than you." Not one to be outdone, Ben posted a blog on the band's Myspace page recently with the following message for Mr. Donegan:
The guitar player Dom Deluise or whatever his name is with the little peen complex from that band Disturbia or whatever they're called thinks that we care about them. Old news, but still funny. Check it. "My Ferrari is better than your Honda!!! Our stages come apart and travel with us and yours don't!!! We have thirty guitar techs and you have one!". Coooool self esteem barometer douchebag. Wait…what's that I hear? The sound of your band still sucking? Oh, right. Gotcha there, bud.
Mega-burn! Then, earlier today interview excerpts were posted on Blabbermouth from a recent interview on Rockline, with DISTURBED frontman David Draiman, and the dude seemed to take the high road:
I'm actually very confused by [Weinman's comments], 'cause, to be honest with you, we don't normally let anybody around when we're checking or we don't pay attention to it, number one. Number two is I don't ever remember playing with the guys, to be honest with you. I don't know what they were doing there. I don't ever remember having them open for us, so… I don't even know what the hell they're talking about. And then as far as 'rehearsing moves,' I mean, I don't know who the hell they think we are — we're not N'SYNC; we're not going up there with choreography or something like that, trying to rehearse. 'This is when I put my foot on the monitor here.' [Laughs] No one cares about that. But when it's time for Danny [Donegan, DISTURBED guitarist] to hit his guitar solo, yeah, he needs to be in a particular cued spot so that the lights go to that focus point, when there's a little particular fill in the song. It's called production — it's what any big professional band that isn't just punk rock… Not to say that there is anything wrong with punk rock, because I have my roots in it, but you can't compare the two styles of a show. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN are more punk and I respect them for what they do — I'm not even calling them out on any level, in any way shape or form. I like the style of what they do. I don't understand what the hell they think they saw with us, but gentlemen, let me give you a little bit of education: This is what the big boys do who play stadium shows — they wanna worry about how the lights look that they spend so much money on.
Punk rock roots? Wha-ah-ah-at??? Did I miss something? But his response was clearly more professional than could be expected, maybe because he realizes that if they start trading insults, Dillinger will totally win, because well…they're f'n DILLINGER! HAVE YOU SEEN THEM??
