#438 - Serj Tankian on DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - May 14, 2024 16:11 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Musician Serj Tankian, best known as front man for System Of A Down, chats with Trey Elling about DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM: A MEMOIR (OF SORTS). Topics include:
His family in the Armenian Genocide (0:00)
The Lebanon Civil War (4:48)
Being an immigrant kid (7:38)
The music epiphany (10:32)
Dad's helpful advice (13:11)
"System Of A Down" meaning (15:05)
Rick Rubin (16:47)
His first visit to Armenia (19:47)
Criticizing the US, post-9/11 (21:31)
Spurning the Grammys (24:55)
B.Y.O.B. (28:22)
Steal This Album! & "Boom!" (29:16)
Maintaining creative freedom (31:15)
Compassionate confrontation (32:12)
Parenthood (33:48)
System's ONE Armenia show (37:30)
Showing Bourdain around Armenia (39:08)
An ode to America (42:42)
An ode to making music (43:27)
An ode to being Armenian (45:46)