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\"\"<\/a>Disturbed are undoubtedly one of the biggest Metal bands around with album sales in excess of 11 million and counting, from their debut release \u2018The Sickness\u2019 in 2000 they have either been on tour or in the studio recording and there is truly no sign of them slowing down as they continue to become bigger and bigger.\u00a0 This can be witnessed on the amazing documentary \u2018Decade of Disturbed\u2019 that gives fans an insight into the bands beginnings and how they went on to be where they are today.<\/p>\n

Continuing on with this tradition of relentless touring, they are currently in Australia in support of their fifth studio album \u2018Asylum.\u2019\u00a0 We were able to sit down with guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren to discuss the tour, Australian audiences as well as how they choose their trademarked cover songs and their possible plans for an Acoustic album.<\/p>\n

So, come on get down with Disturbed\u2026<\/p>\n

I saw the show on Monday and thanks for the severe case of rock neck, but seriously, the show is amazing.\u00a0 How have you been enjoying the tour so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan – Unbelievable, yeah its been great, I mean we love and I\u2019m not just saying it, we love coming here every time and each time it\u2019s been getting bigger and bigger for us and now to be able to be at a level to be able to be playing in front of so many people and now be able to bring the production that we\u2019re bringing for the first time, it\u2019s exciting for us because this level of production has only really been seen in the US and Canada. So for us to be able to bring it for the fans over here is a whole new level.<\/p>\n

Now as you mentioned in regards to the production, I thought the show was visually awesome, in particular the intro, even though you weren\u2019t in it, how much fun was that to make?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan – No not really in it, I somewhat wrote the treatment for it for the beginning for the shoot and semi directed it, so we don\u2019t personally we don\u2019t really like to be in videos, or like to do them, it\u2019s kind of the same thing over and over, usually every treatment you read says \u2018The band is rocking out harder than ever before\u2019 and its always something kind of cheesy.\u00a0 This whole thing this was the first time of actually trying to come up with the visual for the live show and do that so it was just kind of a do that and came up with the treatment for it to have David in this Asylum in this mental hospital, and you know, you\u2019ve seen the rest of it so we thought it was just a nice way to build up the intro and instil that kind of anticipation for the start of the show.<\/p>\n

Is there anything about Australian audiences that differ to those from elsewhere in the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 I just think their level of energy is just amazing, I think we go in the States and we play tour after tour after tour and they\u2019re used to getting us all the time so I think they\u2019re a little bit spoiled, but here everyone realises we\u2019re only going to come down once a record cycle maybe so they\u2019re very appreciative and they make sure they come to the shows and make sure they sing every lyric and that\u2019s just so awesome.<\/p>\n

So, no cheating because we\u2019re in Sydney, but who has been the best crowd so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 Melbourne and Sydney I think, they\u2019re pretty neck and neck<\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Yeah they\u2019re pretty neck and neck, a lot of it is similar size in shows too, Sydney might have had a little bit more people, slightly, or is it the other way around?<\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 I think it was Melbourne actually<\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Yeah Melbourne had maybe a couple of hundred more, but the energy level was great.\u00a0 I mean, all the audiences, we cant really just single one out but like Mike said, when you see them singing the words back to you and when everybody\u2019s getting gig neck from rocking out, it\u2019s great, we know that it\u2019s translating.<\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 If you had to compare, and maybe order what shows are the best and what shows are the worst, there really isn\u2019t any worse shows out here, but I would rather play the worst shows out here, ten times over the States best show.\u00a0 Yeah, no B.S. I mean honestly, there hasn\u2019t been one bad show, all the shows have been off the hook, the cities are great, the people are great, I keep saying to our management company, can we figure out other cities to play here? And they said \u2018You guys are covering them all!\u2019 ha ha<\/p>\n

And a guilty pleasure of mine at a concert, I love fire so when that went off I was rockin\u2019 and that shit is hot. I\u2019ve always wanted to know, how hot is it for you up on stage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 Ours as well.\u00a0 You know, its definitely hot for a couple of seconds but it looks cool as hell so you just suck it up, but honestly when we\u2019re up there and the adrenalin is flowing, it just feels so primal, the fire comes up and it\u2019s just \u2018arghhhh\u2019 and you\u2019re just getting into it so much more. I love it.<\/p>\n

How hard did you have to fight to get a drum solo included in the set ha ha<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 I actually didn\u2019t fight at all, the guys suggested, they recommended it. I\u2019ve done one here and there, we think it\u2019s a good way to end the set and it\u2019s a good segue into our signature song \u2018Down With the Sickness\u2019 and just a nice way to space it out, it gives another element to the set.\u00a0 We, on this tour cycle we\u2019ve been doing a lot of just one hour shows because we\u2019ve been playing a lot of festival situations or other situations where there are just a lot of bands so you\u2019re limited.\u00a0 So now this particular tour we have some more time and we can expand by adding some more elements, some more dynamics to the set and it\u2019s been pretty cool.<\/p>\n

How do you choose the set?\u00a0 Does it change up or is it pretty much the same?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Well because of the level of production we have to stay pretty true to the set because of safety reasons because of the pyro, so we need our crew and everybody to be in sync and on board and know when it\u2019s coming and when it\u2019s not.\u00a0 If we wanted to change when we woke up tomorrow morning and said we wanna change the set then lets change it, but we won\u2019t do it on the spot, as our crew needs to be aware of any changes, we don\u2019t need anybody stepping in the line of fire and any accidents happening.<\/p>\n

How do you get such a full heavy sound out of just four guys up on stage?\u00a0 The sound is huge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Well a lot of it sometimes we\u2019ll have John our bass player will have a guitar amp AB\u2019d with his bass rig so sometimes he\u2019ll kick that on and it\u2019ll be like if I go into a solo, he\u2019ll kick on the distorted one and he\u2019ll have a bass and a distorted one going, you know, keeping it full.\u00a0 And then maybe some underlying keyboard, some deep bottom end stuff.<\/p>\n

Now are there any plans for a live concert DVD from this tour?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Not for this tour, we don\u2019t have the camera crew out to get it.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely unfortunate that we\u2019re missing some of this to be able to document it other than our own personal cameras and that, but it\u2019s definitely something to consider down the road, we\u2019re always trying to push something out and give to the fans to see live performances and it\u2019s building to a level here now that it\u2019s something we\u2019d consider to doing down the line.\u00a0 You know, we\u2019ve had home videos and stuff that we\u2019ve released before and our Decade of Disturbed that we gave out free on the purchase of this last album because we wanted to give it to our fans for them to see us on a worldwide level and for anyone that has maybe never seen the band before or maybe we\u2019ve never been to certain countries they\u2019re able to see what we\u2019re about.<\/p>\n

So talk me through the concept of\u2019 Music As a Weapon\u2019… how did that all come about?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Basically during the success of our first album \u2018The Sickness\u2019 once we got to a level of headlining in the States, we wanted to put together a tour of picking some of our favourite bands and just putting together a strong bill.\u00a0 The term \u2018Music As A Weapon\u2019 was a lyric taken from one of our songs \u2018Droppin Plates\u2019 and it was just meant to join forces of this genre, these types of bands to just kind of stand up against everything else that dominates the charts, the pop music, the hip hop and everything else that dominates it, it\u2019s us joining forces to show there\u2019s a large Heavy Metal fan base out there that you cant deny.\u00a0 So over the years we\u2019ve just picked bands that we\u2019re fans of and just tried to put on a big bill.<\/p>\n

Anyone that you want to work with that you haven\u2019t played with yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 God, we\u2019ve toured and crossed paths with so many bands\u2026<\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 The chances are, if you name somebody, we\u2019ve either met them or played a show with them in some capacity with them throughout the years and we\u2019ve been really fortunate and everybody\u2019s been great<\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Yeah we\u2019ve played with just about every body ha ha<\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 From new to old, to our peers, to our idols, I mean everybody in between, we\u2019ve had the opportunity to play with just about everybody.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also tipping from David\u2019s comments the other night that the duet with Justin Bieber is not on the cards anytime soon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Ha ha no plans for that<\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 Who? Ha ha<\/p>\n

Now, normally I\u2019d ask about influences for your music but instead I want to know what album made you want to be a rock star?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 I mean for me personally, I don\u2019t know if I could single out just one album, I think the fact that at the time just the classic metal bands that I grew up to, I just remember I had to sneak to my neighbours house because my neighbour across the street, his parents were the hippies in the neighbourhood and they had Black Sabbath albums and stuff like that and I knew that was stuff that was never played in my house. So it made you want to see what else was out there.\u00a0 I just remember going over there and hearing \u2018We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll\u2019 and my first album that I bought though was Led Zeppelin 2, and that was pretty inspirational to me, but like I said, once I got into Sabbath and Iron Maiden and all these albums that, it\u2019s not that they weren\u2019t allowed in my house but my parents weren\u2019t listening to that stuff ha ha and my neighbours parents were and it just seemed that we had to sneak it and it was just so wrong to do that and that\u2019s what I loved about it.<\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 Yeah it was a similar situation, I wanna say \u2018Number of the Beast\u2019 was probably, on vinyl was one of the first records I heard and one of my buddies had it at the time and it was the same situation, we used to go sneak into his room and put the record on and it was just like wow there\u2019s really something here and from that point on I was pretty much hooked.<\/p>\n

I want to ask about the cover songs as there\u2019s always one that appears on the albums, how do you decide what to cover?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 We\u2019ve taken songs that we feel are a challenge to take them from that lighter rock original sound and just putting our stamp on it.\u00a0 When we did \u2018Shout\u2019 it\u2019s something we were doing before we were signed and it started there, the lyrics in the song are kind of primal, we thought we could really just musically put our stamp on it so we started doing it around the clubs as we were coming up and the fans liked it and we ended up putting it on the first album and when we did \u2018Land Of Confusion\u2019 it was more or less that we already had the material written for the album, and John our bass player was his first album with us, we were waiting to get into the studio with our producer Johnny K and he was finishing up a previous project so I brought it up to the guys and said \u2018What do you think about doing this song?\u2019\u00a0 Musically I thought we could put our stamp on it and make it syncopated and before we even really said anything to David, because we thought he might just shoot it down if we talk about it, let\u2019s just do it musically and show him where we can go with this and that\u2019s basically what we do.\u00a0 We just kinda demoed it, a real simple version of it and not the best quality but at least it got the message across, it was syncopated, it rocked so we just decided to do it.\u00a0 This last one with doing the U2 track, was more of a bonus, it was more of a hidden track, that\u2019s why we didn\u2019t number it on the CD or nothing.\u00a0 It was just another thing of here\u2019s the biggest rock band in the world and sometimes that may seem sacrilegious with certain bands but we thought once again, its fun, it\u2019s fun to be pushed and challenged and make it your own.<\/p>\n

Have you ever gotten feedback from the artists you\u2019ve covered?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 With \u2018Shout\u2019 with Tears for Fears their original bass player Curt Smith, we happened to be in the studio just finished recording it and he was in town for a particular music conference and one of our managers knew him and invited him over to check it out and it was an amazing experience to have him sit behind the console and listen to our version of his song.\u00a0 He just turned around and looked at us and was just blown away.\u00a0 It was an amazing moment.<\/p>\n

Now Dan you have producer credits on the album, but Mike you took a Co Producer role on Asylum, how was that this time around to have a say on the other side of the desk?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike \u2013 Well Danny really mans the helm when it comes to the production front, he really has a gift for it, and David and I are more there as so he can bounce ideas off and go back and forth, and we have our input but for the most part it\u2019s usually up to Danny over here.\u00a0 I can\u2019t take as much credit as he deserves it ha ha.<\/p>\n

What about the possibility of doing an acoustic album, have you thought about putting a different spin on some songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 You know, for the longest time, we\u2019ve been asked that a couple of times before and for a while I thought oh these songs are just meant to be performed plugged in and be loud and powerful and heavy, but going back to that same thought on the cover tunes, I wouldn\u2019t rule it out completely, I mean, we took one of our songs \u2018Remember\u2019 and we thought lets try a different version of that live just to spice it up and change it up and bit and I thought that turned out really cool.\u00a0 We started doing and acoustic version of it and then it went into the distorted part of it like half way through the song so I thought it was cool and good to challenge ourselves again and do something that\u2019s a little bit different.\u00a0 Personally I wouldn\u2019t rule it out, if we could come up with some cool versions of it and if the vibe seemed right and if it\u2019s some that we felt was just a nice change for once then something to consider.<\/p>\n

Watching the \u2018Decade of Disturbed\u2019 documentary is an amazing insight into the band.\u00a0 Are you still recording footage and what do you see the next ten years having in store?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 I mean we try to record as much as we can, we were fortunate for the first ten years we were employing a videographer to document everything and he was all full time with us, and then over the past few years Warner Brothers started to employ them but they were being more selective on when they would come out as they didn\u2019t want them out full time, so they\u2019d pick and choose so we\u2019ll see, I\u2019m not sure, as long as we still have the fire and desire to keep doing it.\u00a0 I would \u00a0imagine that we will, once its in your blood, even when we come off of tour and you\u2019re looking forward to coming home at the end the whole cycle because you want to sleep in your own bed and actually put your clothes in a closet instead of living out of a suitcase, but then you\u2019re home for a little bit and then you start missing it because we are addicts when it comes to music, it\u2019s our drug of choice, you kind of get away from it and you want it, you cant be away from it for too long.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, I mean as long as the fans keep us hungry for it, when we can come half way across the world like this and the crowds have been getting bigger for us and the reactions have been getting bigger and they\u2019re singing not just the old songs but the new songs then it seems to be working still.<\/p>\n

And are you getting off the road and heading straight back into the studio or are you due for a rest for a while?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 We\u2019ll definitely take a rest this time, it\u2019s been non stop for us for as long as we can remember, even before we were signed in 99, I\u2019ve been together with Mike for the first time since 92 and we\u2019re workaholics, so even as we were a local band we were working our asses off and just constantly promoting and trying to get the word out there and playing shows, and every album cycle has been tour, tour, tour and come off, write, go in the studio, record and go back out again.\u00a0 It\u2019s been like that pretty much non stop with very little time off, so we\u2019ll see, like I said, we\u2019ll take that short break and we\u2019ll see if we\u2019re getting that itch again to get going right away then it will be quick.<\/p>\n

Are you always writing though out on the road?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Here and there, I\u2019ll either record it to my phone or in the States we bring a mobile pro-tools rig out with us, I\u2019ll record a riff here and there and then we don\u2019t do any full band writing until we get home, then I\u2019ll go back and listen to the old ideas and see if they still do anything for me riff wise and I\u2019ll piece together some of those ideas and Mike will start coming down to my house and we\u2019ll just start throwing some beats around with it and kind of just vibe it out musically, and once we\u2019ve got something that we feel good about then we\u2019ll present it to David to see what that sparks out of him, like a \u2018Here you go, do something with this.\u2019 Ha ha.<\/p>\n

So hopefully over the next ten years we\u2019ll still see you around, still rocking out and selling out stadiums for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan \u2013 Sure, if the Rolling Stones can keep going strong then we\u2019ll be feeling it too as we get older and aching, but we\u2019ll say that and we\u2019ll joke around like your back hurts or your knee hurts or whatever and we\u2019re getting older doing it but music does also keep you young too, like I\u2019ll look back at friends that we went to school with like they live like they\u2019re old but we live like we\u2019re teenagers, yes we have responsibilities and we have wives and kids but the music makes us feel young.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Chicago, IL, USA<\/p>\n

Band members:<\/strong> David Draiman- Vocals, Dan Donegan- Guitar, Mike Wengren- Drums, John Moyer- Bass<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0 http:\/\/www.disturbed1.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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