The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman recently sat down with Metalinsider.net to discuss the bands new album, Greg Puciato‘s recent bad trip and Giraffe Tongue Orchestra; among other things.
When asked what he said to Puciato about the ‘bad trip’ post, Weinman, who is straightedge, stated:
“I actually talked to him last night. He was like, “wow there was a lot of press about that…that’s crazy.” I said ‘look, you gotta realize, I might be in Jersey in my basement writing the record and you’re out in Hollywood hanging out and experimenting and figuring out what you want to do with your life and how you want to do it and exploring your creativity and that’s great.
But you’ve got to realize you’re the front man and you’re the image of what this band is, not me in the basement working my ass off on riffs with a pot of coffee with a lot of fucking excitement and passion without any care for what’s around me.
You gotta realize if you put a fucking Mercedes in a shitty fucking Pinto shell, everyone is just going to see a shitty Pinto shell. They are not going to see the core of what went into that fucking machine…’”
Meanwhile, speaking on his upcoming ‘supergroup’ with members and alumni of Jane’s Addiction, Mastodon & The Mars Volta, Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, he offered:
“We have like five pretty solid demos, so it’s starting to get pretty heavy. It goes in and out of us being pretty productive and us being really busy. Brent is obviously in the middle of a touring cycle with Mastodon and I’ve been back and forth doing Dillinger stuff and working on other projects, working on a movie, all kinds of stuff.
I go out with Mastodon in a couple weeks so we’ll probably work more up there. Me and Eric have been swapping files. I spent time with John Theodore who is the drummer. He also plays with Zack de la Rocha and One Day as a Lion. He also used to be in The Mars Volta.”
On the topic of The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s new record, he replied
Yeah, me and Billy [Rymer] our drummer have been working on it. I don’t even think the whole band has heard it yet, any of the stuff. I’m just excited because this is the most exciting time. Up until now, I always feel like I can never start Dillinger stuff. I’m just like “I can’t do another record, that’s it I’m done, I don’t have any more Dillinger in me.”
Then there’s that first spark and then all of a sudden, “ohhh…that is some sauce!” Then all of a sudden, “wait, I’m getting a tingle from this one…oh yeah oh yeah” and I just get completely excited and me and Billy are down there just getting pumped and it’s a really exciting time because that creative spark is the best thing in my life. That’s my favorite time, more then playing a show, more then someone cheering on our record, this that or whatever. We just started really putting that stuff out there and its starting to snowball. Good times!
More on that, the new album, a movie Weinman is involved with, the groups label situation and more can be found in the full interview.
