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You became Drowning Pool’s frontman off.” People are going to be passionate
in 2012. How do you feel the band has and fight for what they believe to be the
changed since you came aboard? best. But sometimes you have to stick to
your guns and do it your way, so I think I
Well, I think DP has a great ability to learned that lesson as well from Resilience.
adapt to whomever is backing the mic. I
am playing to my strengths. We are back Okay, so you said you weren’t as green
to our heavier roots. I think we’ve gotten as you were on the previous album,
away from the modern rock approach so I guess what I am hearing is that
and going back to the heavier approach. you learned to stand your ground and
say, “Nope, I think this is the way it is
And we love you for it. More heavy, supposed to be.”
less crappy! (laughs) Well, Hellelujah
follows up to Resilience, released in Oh yeah, without a doubt. When we
2013, which was the first album you did Hellelujah and Jason Suecof, who
were a part of with Drowning Pool. Was is a great, great producer… as I said,
working on Hellelujah different than we are all passionate. You’ve got to be
the previous? passionate. We had our arguments, ya
know, because he heard some of our
Night and day. They were night and day tunes the way he wanted to hear them,
experiences with Hellelujah. First and and he was dead set on getting me to
foremost, it was quite the difference. It realize what he was trying to create. It
was my second effort with DP, so I’m didn’t always line up and it made for
not as green as I was. I have a lot more some pretty heated discussions. But, the
experience as a writer on this one. I record benefited from that. We brought
mean, it wasn’t as if I wrote all the lyrics out the best in each other. I mean, we
and they wrote all of the music, but it didn’t fight all the time. But, there were
was very organic and wide open when it definitely times when I was dead set on
happened. I wrote some music, the guys doing it my way. Two or three years ago,
wrote a lot of lyrics, and the strongest I would have never been able to stand
ideas prevailed. It was very different. up for that.
I think we learned what we needed to
learn from Resilience. Now, we’re going Jason is a legend. Was it difficult to say,
to work together to be the type of band “Jason, I don’t think so…”
we are going to be and capitalize on
those lessons. No, it wasn’t difficult at all. We didn’t
butt heads all of the time. But, if it got to
What was one of the lessons that you that point, I was very passionate about
learned? doing it the way I wanted to do it. He is
a legend and he has done great records,
Well, we’re not a modern rock band, and that is the whole reason we went to
and we’re going to be the heavy band. him in the first place. I’ll listen to him.
I learned to fight more for what I want He’s got this mad scientist/genius vibe
to bring to the band. I think I learned going on. I don’t pretend to know more
to be my greatest advocate. Not to be so than him.
greedy or be like, “Okay, okay, I’ll back
