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New Years 2011 Super-Mega Issue Inside This Issue: Our Top Ten Interviews of 2010: Oderus Urungus of Gwar, Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, Mike and Jeremy of The Devil Wears Prada, Lizzy Borden, Jim Root of Stone Sour/Slipknot, Fieldy of Korn, Daniel Davison of Underoath, Dan Jacobs of Atreyu, George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher of Cannibal Corpse, Dave Ellefson of Megadeth, & Jason Hook of Five Finger Death Punch, Meet The Plug’d In Staff: Our Profiles, The Dear Dead Abby Year in Review, Super Motivation: Lots of inspirational things to kick your new years off right, and enough crap to knock out all the Pork and Sauerkraut that you ate!

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Plug’d In’s Year In Review Welcome to Plug‟d In Magazines 1st issue of 2011. We want to use this issue to feature some of the cool stuff we did last year. As you know we released our first issue March 05, 2010. Its been a very busy year for us. We have covered shows all over the state, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and of course had a blast every minute doing it.

What started out as a humble beginning, has grown immensely and will continue to grow. We‟re constantly trying to improve and set the precedence as being the leader in national music coverage in the region. We are dedicated to keeping you informed with what's going on with your favorite bands.

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Oderus Urungus of Gwar Interview by Michael Demos and Nicole Stella Photo by Michael Demos PI: So we‟re sitting down with Oderus Urungus, lead singer of the inter-galactic band Gwar, and they‟re getting ready to kill the Crocodile Rock tonight. What do you have planned for us tonight?

OU: It will be a fucking mess. Lots of people will be smashed into the stage, there‟s going to be a lot of blood flying, but at the end of the night that floor will be bone dry because those fans will suck up every motherfucking drop of that syphilitic cum juice. It‟s absolutely disgusting.

PI: Who plays the major part in the theatrics? Is it you or is it a group collective?

OU: I‟d like to take credit for it all, and I will, because I can do that, but there‟s a cast of 1,000‟s. We have slaves, kind of like the way they built the pyramids, except far messier and way more people die.

PI: Earths going through a major problem with this oil leak crisis.

What do you think about it?

OU: It‟s funny because we offered the government a solution.

They could take the biggest fudge-packing machine on the surface of the planet, Flatimus Maximus, and they could do a top-kill shit maneuver. It was kind of a fecal fantasy we had. It didn‟t really work out. They still deny that we even exist and are real, so we really can‟t help them with their environmental issues.

PI: How do we get the Government to know that you guys are real, that Gwar isn‟t a joke?

OU: Well, I‟m on FOX News now. I‟m the official InterPlanetary correspondent for the late night T.V. gabfest Red-Eye. If that‟s not a disturbing development, I don‟t know what is. It gives me a sort of legitimacy, but it really hasn‟t helped at all. I guess it‟s the fact that I walk around everywhere with my dick hanging out, oh, that and the raping and killing part. Lots of doors are closed to us.

PI: Can you tell us a little about the Crack-a-thon?

OU: It was a complete failure, I‟ll tell you that! We had this crazy idea that we could stand around webcams masturbating and people would send us money. They did, and we spent it all on drugs, booze, and prostitutes. We did save about $40 and stole some cameras so we have enough now to make Gwar T.V. We are adding programming all the time. Let‟s see…In a couple of years, more failure and we will drop right off the map. Or, it will be the most colossal force in entertainment history.

PI: You guys just celebrated 25 years. How does that feel?

OU: A lot of people seem interested in that and freaked out by it, but 25 years to us is the blink of a gnats eye.

We‟ve been around for 46 billion years.

PI: We hear about global warming all the time. How much of it is Gwar responsible for?

OU: All of it, and not just global warming, anything that‟s a problem. The inspiration for the word “problem” came from Gwar. It‟s what we are. If we weren‟t a problem we‟d be name Gwee, or Gwap or something.

PI: What‟s the one thing on the human body that you consider useless and would like to help us get rid of?

OU: Everybody knows that‟s the Uvula.

PI: You guys are with Roadrunner now……opps OU: No! PI: Im sorry…I had Roadrunner on my contact sheet, I know its Metal Blade. I was just interviewing….

OU: The unholy alliance of Gwar and Metal Blade is the foundation of Heavy Metal.(In heavy British accent) I know, you‟re just hanging out with rock stars all day. Chilling with King Diamond, Slipknot, and on the tour bus with Gwar. It‟s the life of a rock journalist….

PI: What would be the ultimate tour on this Planet?

UO: Slayer, Gwar…can I bring back bands from the dead?

PI: You can bring back anybody you want.

UO: Maybe I should just stick with bands that are dead already. I‟d love to see Slayer, Gwar, Slipknot, and throw Hatebreed on there. I can‟t believe nobody had the balls to fucking do it. Slayer and Slipknot probably don‟t want to play with Gwar; they don‟t have a lot of humor. I think they‟re afraid if they‟re affiliated with Gwar it would make them seem less serious. It‟s a bunch of baloney. Gwar is what it is. We totally fit with any band ever. Metal, Punk, you name it. As long as its hard and heavy. It‟s a pain in the ass when you can‟t get on these amazing, fucking metal tours. All summer long they happen and they‟re like Ewww, we don‟t want to get red shit all over the cables and hoses this year. Pussies.

PI: What haven‟t you accomplished on your list?

OU: We haven‟t made and awesome feature film. We haven‟t made a high quality video or computer game yet. We still haven‟t been to Japan. We haven‟t raped a living Pope. We killed him a bunch of times though. I still haven‟t had sex with a living, breathing blue whale. It‟s something very near and dear to me. I‟ve molested many whale carcasses. They‟ve washed ashore because I‟ve been having my way with them. I‟m constantly looking for animals that can handle me. Humans don‟t cut it. Women fall apart. It‟s like having a snakehead fish for a penis. It will eat its own hole. I started fucking camels and that didn‟t work out so well. They were too weak, so I moved to large fish.

And lately I‟ve been fucking whales. A lot of ravaging by Oderus Urungus as evident by the large amount washing up on the shores of your world.

PI: What should happen to little children who cry when they lose spelling bees?

OU: This might be a lot for some people to handle, but we would rape them. We would rape the children, that‟s what we‟re born to do. It‟s the easiest way to ensure you‟ll have a good time. Because I know it‟s fun to rape little children.

PI: What‟s next for Gwar?

OU: Hopefully the blue whale thing. After that I don‟t fucking know. When you‟re the most disgusting thing on the planet lots of people will ask you that. I can‟t see much further than the end of my nose. I do know I‟m going to continue to propel myself forward in a drug and alcohol fueled frenzy. Whatever I run into is going to go down. Cause we are Mother-fuckin Gwar! If the 25th anniversary was great we will just have to see what the 50 th is like!

PI: Oderus, thanks for sparing our lives and giving us the chance to get Plug‟d In. OU: For now you will live!

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Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed Interview and Photo by Michael Demos We caught up with Hatebreed front man Jamey Jasta backstage @ Mayhem Fest in Camden, N.J. Jamey is one of the busiest men in Metal today, so we felt lucky to sit down and talk with him. Hatebreed had been headlining the Jagermeister Stage for the whole tour and the crowds have been going crazy for their intense, high-energy set. At most signing booths there was at least a 30 minute wait for autographs. Everyone we spoke to said it was more than worth it. Here‟s what Jamey had to say about the tour and what‟s going on in one of the biggest, hardest bands today.

PI: How has Mayhem been for you so far?

JJ: It‟s been good. It‟s been a little hectic. There‟s been a lot of signings…you gotta shake hands and kiss babies. Hatebreed is doing well on this album. We‟ve been on tour forever and it feels good.

PI: What is up with the beard?

JJ: I basically lost a bet. Without getting into the details, I grew it out. Now that Zack Wylde approved of it I‟m gonna leave it till the last day of Ozz Fest .

PI: What‟s going on with Kingdom of Sorrow? Anything new with them?

JJ: We have a new album that came out last month and we are doing Ozz Fest. We will see what happens at the end of the year. No other plans yet though.

PI: With all the stuff that‟s going on during these tours and festivals, can we expect another live DVD? JJ: Yea, we want to, but I don‟t know a timeframe. We want to do more of a documentary type thing. We want to do old shows and the history of the band. We want to interview the old members. We want to try and do something more like a movie than a live show.

PI: What goes through you when you step on stage and the crowd receives you?

JJ: It‟s crazy. It‟s insane that people still support us through all these years. I‟m just used to..all the bands I used to listen to growing up, a lot of them faded into obscurity. The scene goes in and out. Metals big then it get small. Then it‟s big, and then it gets small. We‟ve just been lucky to maintain throughout these years. I feel very grateful and count my blessings every day.

PI: What do you do with your time off both on tour and off?

JJ: I try to devote my time to my family because I don‟t see them so much. My sister has 3 kids; my daughter just turned 11…so I‟ve been trying to do the family thing. I try to spend time with them. This morning I was swimming with my Niece and nephew before I flew in for the show. I just try to do family stuff.

PI: What‟s going to happen in 2011 for Hatebreed?

JJ: We‟re going to a new record and hopefully get it out in the fall. We‟re going to do a whole lost cities tour. We want to hit a lot of smaller cities like Memphis, Nashville, a lot of cities in the south, ect. We want to hit a lot of the cities we haven‟t been able to get to on this run.

PI: We did an interview not too long ago with Gwar front man Oderus Urungus. We asked him what would be a great tour and he said Slayer, Slipknot, and throw Hatebreed on there. Do you have a response to Oderus?

JJ: I would love it. Make it happen! I have such a good time with all the Gwar guys and have nothing but respect for them. I was in Gwar for 2 shows. Not a lot of people know this…I was Bonesnapper. You gotta get in this costume and get covered in all this crap. The stuff doesn‟t wash off for like 6 days and you smell horrible. You have to memorize all these moves and have to be careful you don‟t get your fingers chopped off. You gotta wear a cup because there‟s shit flying everywhere. I‟m like where is the glory? You rock out but a lot of people don‟t know it‟s you in the costume. I don‟t know how they do it? I gotta give them respect…They‟re the real shit.

PI: Can we ever expect to see that tour happen?

JJ: Who knows? It would be up to the headlining band, not me.

PI: Jamey, thanks so much for giving us a chance to get Plug‟d In. JJ: My pleasure, thank you guys so much for the support, I appreciate it!

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Mike and Jeremy of The Devil Wears Prada Interview and Photo by Michael Demos and Liana Marie Getting to hang out with The Devil Wears Prada was a real blast for both Liana and myself. We both are huge fans and the guys are so down to earth. They were cool enough to sign a limited edition vinyl album which we will be giving away in an upcoming promotion. The show @ the Croc Rock kicked ass and so did their interview. We got to sit down with vocalist Mike Hranica and guitarist Jeremy DePoyster. Here‟s how it went. (MD) PI: How has the “Back to the Roots Tour” been?

TDWP: (J) Long and Good. We are currently in week 10 right now and it feels like 15. It‟s been a long run, but it‟s been good. We‟ve done a lot of multi-night shows in different cities, so we kind of dragged it out. It‟s been all small clubs and in your face so it‟s been nice.

PI: What‟s your favorite city you‟ve played so far?

TDWP: (J) New York was really cool, but that wasn‟t “Back to the Roots”. (M) There‟s been a lot that have been really good. We‟ve been trying to measure which show was the hottest, at one point it just went off the scale. For a while it was Des Moines, and then Raleigh was the hottest. The first night in Philadelphia was bad. It‟s been a long tour. We‟ve played a lot of places. To me, only one place stood out as a bad crowd reaction…the rest have been so good.

PI: You guys are getting ready to go to Australia next right?

TDWP: (J) Yep, we‟ve been there once before...Maybe in 07‟ or 08‟. We were headlining there and had never been there before. Now we‟re going there with the massive Parkway Drive.

We‟re really excited about it. The Ghost Inside is on it as well. It should be a sick tour.

PI: When you‟re over in a beautiful country like that, do you get a chance to do any surfing or sightseeing?

TDWP: (M) The last time we did it, it was pretty much back to back shows. This time around I think we have a little time. I think we go to New Zealand first and we have a day off there, so we get to hang out a little. Last time we were there we got to go to a Koala farm. That was pretty cool. We didn‟t get to do too much sight-seeing though.

PI: You just released your new album “Zombie”. Was it everything you thought it would be?

TDWP: (J) It was more than everything we expected. (M) We didn‟t just put out something new for the fans or to just have fun with this project. It‟s been a lot more than that. Going into it, I was like “I dot care if it only sells 5,000 records, whatever…it‟s going to be fun”. We aren‟t going to lose any money, business is good, and it‟s going to be fun. The fans have loved it. We haven‟t heard from 1 fan saying it was bad. Everybody seems to have lost their mind with it. It seems to have started a “Zombie” cult. It‟s awesome, and we‟re really stoked on it. The presale #‟s have been fantastic and the feedbacks from the fans have been great. It‟s been wonderful.

PI: You guys are with Warner Music Group. How has it been having label support?

TDWP: (M) Originally we signed with Ferret which was partially owned by Warner. About a year ago Warner bought out Ferret completely, so the team got switched around. It threw stuff off a little bit, but it‟s been good now. We haven‟t been too involved with the label because we haven‟t put out a full length, but lo and behold the label got really involved with the Zombie EP. So far the relationship has been good. Being more under a major now than before is scary because you hear all the horror stories about being under a major label. We really don‟t have any problems. (J) I think anymore it‟s if you‟re selling records then they‟re not telling you what to do. They have a hard enough time selling records anymore, but they really let us be us.

PI: You guys have Rockstar supporting you on this Tour…that has to help you as a band right?

TDWP: (J) Chelsea and the people from Rockstar Energy Drink have been really cool with working with us and letting us do things our way. We don‟t want to do the whole “commercial” thing or ride the “sell-out train”. They have been cool with giving us some financial backing and wrapping our bus and they haven‟t really asked for too much in return from us.

PI: If there‟s one Artist whose album you could cover, who would it be?

TDWP: (J) That would depend on who you would ask. (M) We‟ve always talked about covering Slipknot, but I don‟t think we could do them just. It would just be a bad Slipknot. It wouldn‟t be different enough. We‟ve also always wanted to cover Rage against the Machine. If we did one of the Rage albums it would be pretty sweet. We talked about doing a whole Rage cover set, but it would be so stressful. If we were able to sit in the studio and do it then it would be pretty sweet.

PI: What about something from the Hip-Hop Genre like when you guys did “Still Fly” by the Big Tymers?

TDWP: (J) I know like almost every band in existence has done a rap cover after that. It kind of happened because our manager came to us and said “What do you think, it Punk goes Crunk”? It was such a crazy idea at the time.

We had a hard enough time finding a song to do. Rap songs are pretty much the same riff all the way through.

There might be a little change up, but it‟s pretty much the same thing, just the lyrics change through it. It‟s a lot different than the music that we play. Even if we did another song, it would be hard to change it up enough that it‟s not monotonous. (M) We thought it was a cool idea because the only band we really knew of to do a rap cover was Throwdown who did “Baby Got Back”. They did it a long time ago when we were kids. Nowadays it‟s like Punk goes Pop. It seems like every band in this “scene or genre” is covering Lady Gaga or Katy Perry. (J) I highly doubt we‟d ever do another “Radio” cover. It seems like band put more attention into doing that and making cool MySpace‟s rather writing a solid EP. (M) Some bands do that to try to get fans and its really lame. (J) I remember when they did the old “Punk Goes Pop” It came from an established artist doing a cover, not a new band trying to get attention.

PI: What about another “Spongebob Grindpants”? Would you do something along that line, maybe like a cartoon theme?

TDWP: (J) We tried that and it turned out too serious. We just don‟t have that touch anymore. (Laughs) PI: What cartoon or sitcom best represents you guys as a band?

TDWP: (M) Seinfeld. (J) Curbed. Either one. We always have the most random, horribly awkward situations, just neurotic crazy messes between him, Anthony, and I. (M) I don‟t really know what show would really describe us though. (J) The Osborne‟s. (Laughs) (M) Maybe Jersey Shore because we‟re idiots.

PI: What can we expect to see from you guys in the future?

TDWP: (J) Musically, I think the next record will be a judgment record. I think a lot of eyes will be on it, wondering if we can do it again. It will be a combination of the best elements from “Zombie” and the best elements from our older stuff. As we move along musically we find out what works and what doesn‟t. It‟s a lot different playing songs in a practice space or a studio than it is “live”. We are very much centered on being a “live” band. That‟s always been our main focus. As we find out what works live and what doesn‟t that‟s the direction our sound travels. We‟ve gotten heavier and heavier on each release because that‟s what‟s fun live. I think we‟ll still be experimental in some ways, but I think bringing that heavy sound, that metal sound, and making it melodic…which is such a stupid cliché, but I think we really take that stuff and make it good. I think Slipknot‟s a band like that. Even if you don‟t like heavy music, you‟ll listen to it, because it‟s such a well written song. We are trying to still be good song writers. I think that will shape our future.

PI: Can we expect any video support for this new album?

TDWP: (M) We haven‟t really talked to the label from the political aspect of things. We‟ve pretty much come up with every aspect of this album like the comic book and the art. We just put the ideas out there and forced the label to pay for it. (Laughs) We made a new contract for this EP and added it to our existing one. Pretty much everything they‟ve done has been a favor, so we‟re not really pushing and saying “C‟mon, pay for our music video”. It would be interesting though, everything about this new EP has so many things that you could do with it. There‟s the opportunity and the possibility. We are really proud of it.

PI: How does being Christian affect your life as a band?

TDWP: (M) Its tough because we aren‟t just a band, we are normal people. That‟s pretty much how it‟s always been. We kind of get put on a pedestal by particular fans. They will be like “I read this press release and you said a curse word”. It‟s not like we do whatever we want like we‟re some kind of lack of disciple, completely immoral band. Sometimes people will hold the craziest things against us. They‟ll tell us the name of our EP “Zombie” isn‟t very Christian. We get that stuff all the time and it‟s a bummer. We‟re the same stupid kids we‟ve always been. We are not a bunch of priests on a bus playing heavy music. It‟s tough but it‟s worthwhile because we stand behind what we talk about. People being harsh and judgmental come with the territory.

PI: People can be so quick to judge, do you think if God were to come to Earth today, would he judge us by what‟s on our bodies or our faces or by what‟s in our hearts?

TDWP: (M) Obviously it‟s about our intentions. A lot of our closest friends are agnostics or atheists and I‟m fine with that. I feel like if you don‟t take the Christian message from our music at least you will get the message of good intentions. Even if you don‟t believe in the same God as me, I would hope that you‟re making a positive impact on the planet and doing something good. If Jesus would come to Earth, that‟s what he would come for. It‟s important for us and what we stand by. (J) Intent is the perfect word. Why do you do what you do? We do what do because we like music, W like making it and playing shows, and we like to do it with a good attitude. We try to treat those that we‟re on tour with well. We try and put something good in the world. A lot of people get mixed up on why they do what they do. Rather than look at “He said this” or “He said that”, try looking at the fact that he‟s trying to put good in a filthy world. I think that speaks more of a Christian mind.

PI: How does being in a band affect your personal lives in general?

TDWP: (J) You have a personal life when you‟re in a band? (Laughs) We don‟t really think of it. We‟ve been doing this since we got out of school, so we don‟t really know what life is like without it. (M) Getting older and becoming more of “adults”, even though we are immature, we do feel the effect of not being home and being able to grow with the people you want to grow with. I‟m happy to be doing what I‟m doing. Everything about the band and what I‟m doing with the band I feel called upon to do so. It‟s what we do. It‟s not easy and it‟s not glorious.

PI: When you were younger, did you dream that you would be where you‟re at today or did you have other plans?

TDWP: (J) I did, but it was Nu-Metal in my dreams. (Laughs) (M) I came from a family that liked music a lot, so I started playing guitar and I was really bad at it. I kind of ended up accidentally doing vocals for this band. I don‟t know, I just ended up want to do this coincidentally and it came together. (J) I‟ve been playing guitar for years so I wanted to make it! I wanted to make $! No, I‟m just kidding, it‟s never been like that for me. (M) We listen to Rock

music, but we don‟t play it, so it‟s never been much of a dream to make it. Kids will say to us “My bands playing with you guys next week, maybe someday we will be able to tour with you”. I think, I don‟t want to tour. (Laughs) Just go to college and be productive. (Laughs) PI: Thanks for sitting down with us and giving us a chance to get Plug‟d In. TDWP: Thank you guys for everything.

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Jim Root of Stone Sour/Slipknot Interview and Photo by Nicole Marie PI: Jim, How is the tour going so far?

JR: It‟s goin‟ awesome, really awesome. Fans have been great. Crowds have been awesome. Umm you know a little bit of a logistical nightmare with all the big giant rock sets that are going on here, with the Avenged set and the Disturbed set. Not really a festival vibe but everything‟s cool.

PI: How do you feel about the bands you‟re playing with?

JR: They‟re awesome. We‟ve done a lot of touring with Disturbed, and a little with Avenged, and everybody‟s really cool. It‟s like a summer camp vibe ya‟ know? Haha. We have parties after every show and on days off we always end up running into everybody at the restaurants and everything.

PI: Can you tell us about the meaning of the new album “Audio Secrecy”?

JR: Basically, um we didn‟t have a title for the record and you know, it‟s always kinda a pain in the ass coming up with a record title because we really don‟t do “themes”, you know what I mean? We didn‟t have like a theme for the record per say, and everybody in the band writes, so essentially what happened was Corey (Taylor) likes to do metaphors and plays on words, so Audio Secrecy came out of a play on words that he came up with, which was idio-secrecy. You know, everybody has these weird little idio-secrecies, and then he made that into Audio Secrecy. And then out of that, we were kinda like oh shit we can do all this stuff like with secret societies, Angels and Demons, kinda weird you know, all that kinda stuff, and kinda go off this theme of trilateral commission and skull and bones, and all that kinda stuff.

We kinda based the videos off that a little bit and some of the album art work and shit like that. So it was all from a ridiculous play on words.

PI: So, the release date of Audio Secrecy will be September 7 th. How do you feel about this? Are you excited?

JR: Yess I‟m excited! But I‟m a little nervous too, you really never know what to expect, especially in this day and age where nobody is buying CD‟s anymore, and you‟re always a little nervous, you know. But yeah, I‟m excited, we‟re going to be on this tour when it comes out so that should help a little bit. I really don‟t put a lot of weight into the album coming out, because I really focus more on playing and doing live shows and things like that. That‟s kinda what I‟m more interested in right now.

PI: The new album was described as being very melodic but also really dark, way darker than the first two albums.

Is this true? What makes it darker?

JR: Well, I think it‟s just how everything came out. It‟s like the stuff that‟s melodic is more melodic and the stuff that‟s heavier came out a little more heavy. Um, I don‟t know why necessarily it would be called darker, because I mean, Corey (Taylor) writes all the lyrics and all the vocals and melodies, and honestly he‟s really happy right now…. (as Corey rides around us on his motor-scooter).. haha. Some of the songs were, you know, were a little to syrup-y for my taste too haha, I‟m a little bit more,.. I like to play the minor, more moody kinda shit like that. Like, when I listen to punk rock music I‟d rather it be something like blur 13 or something like that, that‟s kinda more my vibe, and he‟s more of a “goo goo dolls” kinda dude,.. and well,.. whatever, it works haha. We al kinda put our flavor into everything that goes on so the “darkness” I don‟t really know where that‟s coming from, maybe it‟s because

I always go to a-minor or d.. or things like that as far as the music is concerned. But Corey is really sing-songy and happy,.. you know, he‟s a ham, haha.

PI: I was going to ask, do you usually share in the writing process for both bands?

JR: Oh yea! Yep. I‟m actually writing, and I know the new album isn‟t even out yet, but I already have 3 songs written for the NEXT album haha.

PI: If you were to write a song, how would you decide what band would do it?

JR: Well it‟s very difficult. I had like 14 songs written when we started recording “All Hope is Gone” for Slipknot and um..

PI: 14? Holy shit haha, that‟s more than you guys even put on that album..

JR: Haha I know! But no, they were just like demos and stuff like that. I didn‟t write lyrics for them or anything, I just more so structured the music, and I had 3 songs in particular that I was looking to bring over to Stone Sour and well, we didn‟t really have many tunes for “All Hope is Gone” and our drummer Joey from Slipknot came over to my house he brought his drum set over and 2 of the songs I had intended for Stone Sour went on that “All Hope is Gone” record, so, I don‟t really, or I can‟t really say, here‟s a song I‟ve written and it going to be for this band, you know, sometimes I do sometimes I don‟t. It just really depends on the particular song. But like right now I have a song that sounds like very Slipknot-ish and it‟s kind of really heavy and dark and drudgy, and I‟m thinking of pulling it into the stone sour world because I want to see what we would so with the song, we really haven‟t had the opportunity to mess with anything like that,…yet. Haha.

PI: In the line up of Stone Sour, you‟ve only had 1 member change. Do you consider yourselves as very tight group?

JR: Yeaa, absolutely! When we‟re not on tour with Stone Sour, we all talk to each other, we all keep in close contact, I mean we do sort of separate into our own worlds, but not as bad as Slipknot. Like when we‟re on the road with Slipknot, and the tour is over, everybody just goes like pshhhhhh, gone, haha. Kinda like when you flip the lights on and all the cock roaches run away, haha, that‟s just how we are. And with Stone Sour it‟s a little bit different, we all are always in contact with each other, and we bullshit about what we‟re doin‟ next or just about random crap that we‟re interested in. Josh has his baseball cards, Shawn‟s building an R-2 d-2, haha, and not just a stupid thing, like an actual fuckin R-2 D-2 with full on stainless steel, big giant batteries and shit,. Haha, yea, we‟re nerds.

PI: I know the band name came from a drink and…

JR: A HORRIBLE drink haha PI: Whisky, orange juice and sour mix or something?

JR: Ughhhh yea PI: Haha I guess you never drink those?

JR: Nooo. God no! I only had one once, it was right after the first album went gold, we were with the record label, in New York, and I don‟t know why, just to be smartasses they had a party for the band and had stone sours made up all over for us and ugh, its just SO fucking terrible…

PI: Haha I believe you! Doesn‟t sound good to me either.

JR: And when the band was formed in like ‟93 ‟94, the original drummer came up with the name, and it was basically by looking at a drink menu.

PI: Oh really, didn‟t know that.

JR: Yeaa so it wasn‟t anything where there was any great thought that went to it or anything…

PI: Was there a reason for that or..?

JR: Well we were all a bunch of drunks back then, haha, we were all in that phase, drinking and doing whatever. Now, personally I hate the name. I think it‟s fuckin horrible, but what‟s in a name, ya know? I mean look at Korn‟s name, haha, after a while the name just comes secondary and nobody cares. At first we all tried to change the name, and we had all types of cool names..

PI: And they wouldn‟t let you change it?

JR: Ehh, it wasn‟t that they wouldn‟t “let” us. It was more everything was already taken. Superego was one on top of our list, and that‟s the Einstein kinda theory of the Superego and we really wanted to push for that but somebody already had that band name.

PI: Well obviously they aren‟t any good, haha, you should just take it from them…

JR: Haha! I wish! That‟s kinda what we went through with Slipknot, some Grateful Dead tribute band was called Slipknot and we literally had to pay them off so we could keep the name. I guess they were like touring in Massachusetts for 12 years and making a living of it so we had to make some kind of deal with them to take Slipknot as a name. So, we won that battle, but we wouldn‟t wanna get into something like that again for Stone Sour, we don‟t have the time or budget for if. Even though we came up with all these cool names like Tarantula Bomb and Section 8 and Superego..

PI: Tarantula Bomb? Haha JR: Wellll… I‟m in to Queens of the Stone age and STP and all those different bands, Mastadon,… I thought Tarantula Bomb was kinda cool..

PI: Nooo,.. I like it! Haha JR: Good! But yea, we didn‟t want any more fights, so we stuck with Stone Sour, oh yea and by the way, I FUCKING HATE IT. Haha, for the record.

PI: If you HAD to pick, which band do you like playing for more?

JR: Well, it‟s kinda hard, like choosing between your children. But you know, I‟m a fickle moody motherfucker, ask me one minute and ill say one thing, and then 20 minutes later ill have a completely different answer. I mean right now it‟s Stone Sour, because, well, that‟s what I‟m doing right now. But you know, with Slipknot it‟s cool, we all wear masks, and we‟re all wearin the same thing on stage and the mood on stage is different. There are no inhibitions, or worry about how I look or any of that fuckin shit. It‟s just straight up “Here I am with my mask, and fuck you because you can‟t see me in it anyway, so I can act like a fuckin dick, and whatever, fuck with people in the crowd, and it‟s all good. I‟ve kind of brought that mentality over to Stone Sour a little bit more because ill always have that that hang up, it‟s like getting up on stage and playing naked almost, there‟s nothing to hide behind, its just fucking who you are, and in that way I kinda prefer playing with Slipknot, but at the same time playing with SS is more open and free, and that‟s the type of guitar player I am, and I really draw some of my inspiration from classic rock guitarists like David Gilmore or Jimmy Page, they never played the same thing the exact same way twice, and I think that‟s edgy and kinda cool, you never really know what to expect when you see a band like that live. All these new bands come out and they have the ripping guitar players, but they play the same thing note for fucking note and it sounds exactly like the fuckin record, and ya know, they‟re probably playin‟ to the track anyways. You might as well just stand up there and play the fuckin record behind you through the PA and act like you‟re playing.

When I‟m up there, if I fuck up, then I fuck up, it‟s real.

PI: So what‟s next for Stone Sour and Slipknot?

JR: For Stone Sour we‟re pretty set right now with touring and our new record coming up. You‟ll see a lot of us this year. But for Slipknot, not so much, and you know, we don‟t have a bass player anymore.. and the way I see it, I think Slipknot should take a break and heal some wounds, and think about what our future is going to be. This is why I‟m thinking Stone Sour will have 2 back to back albums coming out soon. We will have more time to sit down and think.

PI: I was going to ask if it‟s Ok with me asking about Paul Gray? (Slipknot‟s bassist who passed away during the summer) JR: Yea, sure. Paul was a great guy, a unique individual. It still really hasn‟t hit me that he‟s gone. Some days I wake up and wonder what he‟s doing, because we always kept in contact, like when I‟m on tour with SS. I mean, I still have text messages from him in my phone. It was a big surprise, nobody was ready for this. And now, his daughter October was just born and Paul‟s wife brought her to one of our shows and the baby looks just like Paul, his face, his lanky fingers, ugh its hard to even think about. I wish he was around to see her. But the family is getting a lot of support. From family, friends, us, our fans, everybody is helping out. The support means the world to her and us.

PI: Well Jim, thank you so much for sitting down with Plug‟d in. It was wonderful talking to you.

JR: Ohh you‟re very welcome. Anytime!

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Fieldy of Korn Interview by Nicole Marie Photo by Michael Demos PI: How is touring going so far?

Fieldy: It‟s been good, we‟ve been everywhere. Started out with a couple shows in Alaska and then hit Canada for like 2 weeks. Next, South America, then the Unites States and we‟re still going. I‟m actually in Los Vegas right now.

PI: How has show turn out been?

Fieldy: It‟s been great. It‟s been sold out everywhere. It‟s good.

You know we‟re doing a promotion run for our new “Korn III Remember Who You Are” CD that we have coming out next month and the single just hit the radio, but the shows have been amazing so that‟s all that matters.

PI: Have you been playing any of your new songs, off the new album?

Fieldy: Right now we‟re doing one new song, "Oildale" (Leave Me Alone). We‟re just doing that one right now but as soon as the album comes out we‟re gunna start doing more songs from it. But for now, it‟s a little too new.

PI: Yes and I‟ve heard that you are doing very well with your new single, "Oildale" (Leave Me Alone)". I‟ve read its being called the biggest jump on the current Billboard Rock Music Charts. It started at #41 and after 2 weeks it jumped to #34, and today it is currently at #28. Were you aware of that?

Fieldy: No I wasn‟t! Wow that‟s cool. I didn‟t even know that. Is that a good thing? haha PI: Absolutely! Going from 41 to 28 is a huge jump in a short amount of time.

Fieldy: Wow that‟s really awesome!

PI: What would it mean to you if you made it to top 10 in a few weeks?

Fieldy: Well ya know I don‟t really keep up with all of that, but I mean if we did, that would be pretty nice.

PI: You‟re going to be a part in this year‟s Rockstar Mayhem Festival, can you tell us what to expect from your performance?

Fieldy: Well we put together a set list of a bunch of songs, we actually went online and had our fans vote for all the songs they wanted to hear live, so we put together that, and we will probably be adding a couple more new ones, we‟ll probably do two or three new ones. But even at that point, everything will still be pretty new. So you know, everybody always wants to hear all the classic Korn songs and so we‟re going to make sure we do all that and yea, it‟s gunna be one of the down and dirty shows.

PI: Are you happy with the bands you will be playing with for Mayhem?

Fieldy: Well I mean I know a few bands, I think we‟re with Rob Zombie, Lamb of God, and we know all those guys, so it‟s pretty cool. And I think there‟s like 15 bands, I don‟t know the whole line up.

PI: Do you like playing with Rob Zombie? Have you played with him before?

Fieldy: Yea! We did a tour back in 1998 with Rob Zombie, it was called the “Rock is Dead Tour” and we did sold out arenas everywhere. You know, kinda making fun of the critics that said rock is dead. So yea, we know them, we‟re friends with them. And they have Joey (Jordison) from Slipknot playing drums for them right now.

PI: Oh, I didn‟t even know that.

Fieldy: Yea it‟s pretty awesome.

PI: The band has gone through some member changes since 2005, with Brian "Head" Welch and David Silveria departing in 2005 and 2006, and the addition of new drummer Ray Luzier. Do you feel like you have the most stable line up right now?

Fieldy: Yea! I think right now we‟re more stable and powerful than ever. The drummer we‟re working with us right now Ray, we have known him for about 3 or 4 years already. He‟s been the best drummer we‟ve worked with in our careers.

PI: Yea, I know he‟s been your touring drummer in the past. So is it more comfortable with him now that he is an official member of the band?

Fieldy: Yea, it‟s been good. We‟ve been very tight, and powerful, it‟s amazing right now.

PI: Did Ray participate more in the writing process of your new CD? Fieldy: Yea, he wrote, as a full Korn member, on the new album. That‟s our line up.

PI: If you had a chance, how would you feel about inviting Head or David back into the band?

Fieldy: I mean only the future can tell that. I don‟t know. If something was going to happen like that, maybe it would be like a tour or something like that. I don‟t think it would be a permanent thing. But you could never say never, ya know. I don‟t know what the future holds.

PI: Do you still talk to them, like on a friend basis?

Fieldy: Well I talk to Head like once a year. I mean we‟re still friends, we‟re still close. But I haven‟t really talked to David. I‟ve heard he was in the restaurant business. I know he sold all his drums and isn‟t really doing that anymore. But that was a long time ago, it could be different now. I‟m not too sure.

PI: You have recently signed to Road Runner Records. How has the support from them been?

Fieldy: It‟s been good! We like went shopping for a bunch of different record labels, and we ended up going with Roadrunner because it seemed like there was such a good street team and family that go along with them, and it‟s been really good so far.

PI: Have they helped you out more so than your last record labels?

Fieldy: Well it seems like we have a more of a, like I said, a street team going on, and I like all that, so for me it seems like the label is more involved in that sense.

PI: And I can say personally that Road Runner has been one of the best labels I‟ve worked with so far, for the magazine. They were real nice and really hooked us up.

Fieldy: Yea, they‟re awesome.

PI: Who decided to reconnect with Ross Robinson for Remember Who you are?

Fieldy: You know we were all just sitting around and were talking about who can do this and produce this new Korn album, and we talked about how we wanted to go back to our roots and takin‟ it old school and we were like “why don‟t we get Ross to do it” because he did the first Korn album and the second Korn album and we were like “that‟s a good idea” so we got a hold of him and he was like “ of course ill do it, you guys are like family to me”.

So that‟s how that really happened.

PI: How was it shooting the video near where you grew up, in Oildale.

Fieldy: The video is down and dirty man, it was in the dirt and the oil field, and just really raw footage. And really I watched the video back and I was like wow this is really one of my favorite videos. I would have liked to have done that type of video back in the day, you know, it just turned out really well!

PI: Back in Bakersfield, when you guys were younger, did you guys ever think you would be where you are now?

Fieldy: Back when we were starting out as a band we always dreamed that we would be playing the world and being a big time band, and we always had that attitude, but now once that we are where we‟re at today, and you know, being around for 17 years and selling billions of records, I realized its like a one in a million chance, its really hard. And now I look back and realize that as a kid, this was my dream, but its tough man, it‟s a tough gig.

PI: What does your new albums title “Remember Who You Are” really mean to you?

Fieldy: Well I mean personally when we were recording and all that, we said lets remember when we were first starting out and how we did recording in a little tiny room and standing up and playing as a band, and just remembering how we did it back in the day, so for me that‟s what it was about.

PI: Do you feel you have lost your old school raw emotional feel for your music over the years?

Fieldy: No, I think that we actually still have all the passion and fire behind it, but when you become a musician you start venturing out and saying lets make this big epic song and this and that, some musicians can just feel it and think its really good, when really, you have to remember who you really are and go back to your roots to get that really raw rough riff who Korn was and now with the new CD its like bringing back the true integrity of Korn.

PI: So you‟re happy with the way the band has transitioned over the years?

Fieldy: Yea I‟m happy to see the direction it‟s going, and it definitely is pretty cool and I hope we keep goin in the direction its going because I know it‟s the right direction. I‟d rather be doin exactly what we‟re doing now. I‟m just so glad we‟re not going in the wrong direction.

PI: Do you think when things like your line up changing it made you guys stronger or made you guys come together more?

Fieldy: Yeah I think when the line up changed, we had to make a choice of, is this falling apart or lets be 10 times better and really step things up and do this, and now we‟re just like lets get back to our core and that‟s what we did, we took that approach.

PI: Do you see any other line up changes happening in the future?

Fieldy: Nah, it‟s me, Munky, Jonathan and Ray that‟s the core right now. Nothing is going to change; we are very solid right now.

PI: You put out your autobiography, 'Got The Life' last year. How do you feel the response has been?

Fieldy: You know, you think when you‟re coming out and talking about a life change and how Jesus Christ changed my life and, I‟ve gotten, from what I know of, I‟ve gotten that people are happy with it, and it inspires people to make a change. I really haven‟t gotten any bad feedback yet, but I‟m sure there‟s going to be some, because you know, when you try to do something good, there‟s always some hater out there and as far as the majority, it‟s been really good. And I‟ve been really surprised; I was ready to take some heat for it.

PI: What made you want to share your past and other personal experiences with your fans and the public?

Fieldy: Well you know I can‟t share where I‟m at today, without sharing my past. I wanted to let people know what I‟m about today. I can‟t just step up and say “hey here‟s where I‟m at today” then be like, that‟s it. Somebody has to be able to relate, and be like “wow man I had a past like that too”, and its just one of those common things, that everybody‟s had a past, and that‟s why I just had to do that.

PI: You‟re going to be doing a book signing at in San Diego next week, when you do your book signings, what do you usually do? Do you talk to the people about the book or so you just take questions? Or,…

Fieldy: You know, it seems it would be that way but it usually doesn‟t really. I think that some people, when they

step up they are so nervous that sometimes I actually have to help them along and be like “hey do you want me to put your name on here, or do you wanna take a picture or”, haha, I think people just get nervous, and I understand, because I get the same way if I‟m meeting somebody that I look up to or if I were to go to someone else‟s book signing, I would get nervous too. And it makes me compassionate, so I can be like “hey man its all good, loosen up”, but sometimes that doesn‟t even work, haha, if somebody is nervous they‟re nervous, you know. People can tell me to loosen up when I‟m like that and I know it‟s not happening.

PI: Haha, yea I know exactly what you mean.

PI: So Fieldy, what‟s next for Korn?

Fieldy: Well after this tour, I know we‟re going to be doing Mayhem Fest. And as far as plans after that I know we‟re going to Europe and Japan, we‟re actually pretty booked up right now, probably up until January, that I know of.

PI: Do you intend on doing any more collaboration with other bands? You did have a great response on your collaboration with Lil Wayne and his video Prom Queen and with your video for Twisted Transistor.

Fieldy: Well as of right now we don‟t have anything planned like that. But I am in another band called Stillwell. I‟m on guitar, Wuv from P.O.D is playin‟ drums and our singer‟s name is Q. The type of music is called street metal, and we have an album “Surrounded By Liars” that‟s going to be out soon. We‟re actually shopping for labels right now, and we hope to have the album out there really soon. And I just finished a bass album, its called Basically, its all instrumental bass and stand up bass, regular bass, 15 string bass, I just finished that one, it has like 18 songs on it, so that will be coming out soon too. I have a couple projects coming out pretty soon.

PI: Can you tell us how to check out your new projects, and where to find them?

Fieldy: You can go to Korn.com and it‟ll tell you all about them. As of right now I‟m still putting the final touches on it and putting the packaging together. Then ill finally release it.

PI: Alright well thank you very much for talking to us!

Fieldy: You‟re very welcome, have a good one!

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Lizzy Borden Interview by Bandi Budwash Photo by Michael Demos When you‟ve been listening to a great “American Metal” band such as LIZZY BORDEN for half your life, being charmed by the story contained in every song and finding different meanings for the lyrics, getting an interview is surreal. So when I got the chance to interview LIZZY BORDEN‟s charismatic front man who also bore the infamous moniker, I knew it would be an encounter I‟d never forget. It took place right before he went onstage to perform. He was already in costume and make up, but he was such a down to earth, good-natured guy with an infectious laugh, that when he wasn‟t portraying “Death” onstage, he‟d be lounging around in basketball shorts. We talked about touring, his accomplishments, and the process of writing an album. We could have talked for hours but had to cut it short due to fans beckoning the master himself by chanting “Lizzy! Lizzy!”

PI: If you could put together the ultimate tour, who would be on it?

Lizzy Borden: That would be KISS and LIZZY BORDEN. PI: If you could be remembered for one thing during your musical career, what would you want it to be?

Lizzy Borden: That I wrote good uniting anthems that kind of transcended through continents. I think that‟s probably the one thing I would like to be remembered, beyond the show beyond anything else, just that I wrote songs that connected with people that live on the other sides of the world.

PI: Is there anything that LIZZY BORDEN has yet to accomplish?

Lizzy Borden: Oh the list is longer than the one that I‟ve accomplished. I‟ve got tons of things, you know, touring the world. We‟re doing South America for the first time so that‟s one of the things I‟ve been dying to accomplish, and we‟re finally doing that. We‟re doing our second big European headlining tour, which is going to be a whole lot more fun than the first, and the first was a ball.

PI: Tell us about your most disastrous tour experience.

Lizzy Borden: That would be this East Coast run. It‟s difficult playing the United States in this day in age, for us anyway. It‟s tough cause we‟re in that thing where we‟re capturing a much younger audience, but we‟re playing 21 and over places so we can‟t really reach them, and our 21 and over audience has kids at home, this and that, so they can‟t necessarily come out during the week so it‟s like, you‟ve got your weekends, so we‟re kind of stuck in that zone. Hopefully we‟ll be able to band together with other bands or jump on a tour for the next round and it‟ll be a whole lot better than this run. We‟ve had a ball though. We met a lot of great people and had a lot of fun.

PI: Are there any plans to record a live DVD of an upcoming show?

Lizzy Borden: You know, I get asked that just about every day. We want to do it. It‟s just a matter of doing it the right way. We almost did one when our guitarist Alex was alive. We were going to do it in Sweden or Switzerland. We were going to do the whole Murderess Metal Two type of thing, but it didn‟t work out. Then we talked about doing it for this thing. At the end of the year will be the last time we do this Appointment With Death tour, and this is the closest thing we‟ve done to the Murderess Metal Road Show. I would love to do it. We might do it on the European run, but I‟m not sure yet, but if not then, we‟ll do it on the next tour. We‟ll do it at some point.

PI: Where do you find inspiration?

Lizzy Borden: It‟s the desire to do something different, you know, once you start an album it‟s like a piece of clay and you have to turn it into something. You have to take nothing and turn it into something. That‟s the challenge, and once you start making it into something and it starts taking shape, you‟re going wow, this is turning into something I like, but then once you finish it, you take that and put it on stage, and then once you‟ve just about burned out on that, then you go back to the beginning of the clay and start it all over again. So I think it‟s the starting it all over again. I‟m chomping on the bit to start working on the next record, but we still have the whole rest of the world to tour, but I‟m so inspired to do it. It‟s just a matter of not having the time right now, and we decided to take the whole rest of the year to tour, so there‟s no way to do it, but, you know, that‟s where the inspiration comes from. Whatever concept or whatever idea I come up with, that‟s going to be the conceptual piece for the whole record. Once I get that, then I start digging in and finding, doing some research on whatever it is the topic is about. Appointment With Death was about death so I went every direction trying to find something that would enter into these songs that would inspire me to take a sentence full of stuff and turn it into the whole thing.

PI: Which brings us to the next question, when can we expect the next LIZZY BORDEN album, and what‟s the concept behind it?

Lizzy Borden: I‟m still working on that. I‟ve been writing a lot lately, just trying to find that thing, cause you have to write a few songs before you can figure out what direction its going to be. For Appointment With Death we wanted to do a little piece of Queen merged with heavy guitars, you know, and that was our idea and that‟s what we went for. And for this next one I‟ve got a whole different production idea. As far as the actual imagery, I‟m still working on that.

PI: What are the best and worst things about being on tour?

Lizzy Borden: The worst things are the long travel, because unless you‟re in a private jet, and even that, it‟s a little bit of work, but uh, it‟s the long travel. I mean, this part is great, before the show, but we have to wake up early tomorrow and drive six hours and do the whole thing again, but it‟s that six hours that‟s the worst part, but we have a good time. We have a great chemistry in the band now, and we laugh all the way there.

PI: How have things turned out in comparison to what you imagined back in ‟83 when LIZZY BORDEN was formed?

Lizzy Borden: Well, some of it came true even beyond my wildest dreams, playing big festivals. Playing all those big festivals is something you imagine when you‟re in bed as a kid dreaming of playing in front of 50,000 people.

I‟ve done that on so many occasions, and I never think about that lightly. That‟s a big dream to me. That‟s the ultimate one. When you think about being a recording star, or whatever, you don‟t picture yourself in the studio, you picture yourself in front of 50,000 people, so every time we play one of these big festivals, it‟s just mind boggling how much power there is in that room or in that field or wherever you are at. So in some ways it‟s done that and in other ways, I‟m trying to fulfill the recording aspect of it where I have an album where I go that was the one. That was my Back in Black or that‟s my Number of the Beast, or you know, that‟s my British Steel. You know, I don‟t think I‟ve done that yet, but I think I‟m getting close.

PI: Is there anyone you‟ve wanted to meet, but haven‟t yet?

Lizzy Borden: Well, I‟ve met a few of my big influences, the people that I looked up to, and it wasn‟t what I thought it would be. I almost regretted meeting them, just because they were different that I thought they would be, and that changed it for me. Now I‟m not so anxious to go meet people, but I have met some other people that I was a casual fan of that I became a bigger fan because they were so genuine or so cool. It goes back and forth, but some of those big names that I really liked, it was just kind of, you know, a little different than I thought it would be.

PI: What does “hitting the jackpot” mean to you?

Lizzy Borden: (Laughter) I don‟t know. (More laughter) Hitting the jackpot, I mean, you know, it used to mean a platinum record, but those days are over for just about everybody, so no one even thinks in terms of that anymore.

Um, for me at this moment in time, the jackpot would mean being on a major tour, as a support act or just being part of a package storming the country doing big numbers every night. That would be my favorite thing to happen.

PI: Most bands of your genre have been met with some sort of controversy. Has LIZZY BORDEN ever dealt with it?

Lizzy Borden: Before I got here there was some, but I don‟t even want to tell you, the story might break any second.

Yeah, we have nothing but controversy, everything that happens to us is just, so many things have happened to us that uh, just nothing but controversy half the time, and we‟re an entertainment band. It‟s about fun with us, but for some reason there‟s always something going on.

PI: What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Lizzy Borden: (Laughter) I would scream hysterically for an hour and a half. (More laughter) PI: Thanks for giving us the chance to get Plug‟d In with you.

Lizzy Borden: No problem, any time.

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Dave Ellefson of Megadeth Interview and Photo by Michael Demos One of the coolest ways in ending out the “Festival” circuit this year was catching Megadeth playing with Anthrax and Slayer. It was just brutal! Megadeth played their entire “Rust In Peace” album along with a couple other Thrash classics of theirs. The show was awesome and before it kicked off I got to sit down with long time bass player Dave Ellefson. Here‟s what he had to say..M.D. PI: We‟re backstage here at Montage Mountain; you guys are getting ready to tear the stage up. Anything special you guys got planned for tonight?

DE: The centerpiece of our show is the „Rust in Peace‟ album which is the 20 th anniversary trek that we‟re doing with that, so that‟s the anchor of the set. We play one song off the „End Game‟ record, which is the latest Megadeth release. Other than that, we fill in about 4-5 greatest hits songs that are the staples of the Megadeth live show. It makes for a good night out. There‟s a little something for everybody and there‟s a whole lot of something if you‟re into „Rust in Peace‟.

PI: Dave, you‟ve been doing this forever. You have a heck of a career behind you, in Megadeth, out Megadeth.

How long do you plan on doing this for?

DE: As long as my back can hold a bass on my shoulder. (laughs) PI: What about other side projects? What else do you have going on right now?

DE: Right now, I‟m just doing Megadeth. This is obviously a full time tour right now, so I don‟t have time really to do anything other than this. One of the other things I have is the group Hail! that I started with Tim „Ripper‟ Owens and Andreas Kisser and initially when we started Jimmy DeGrasso played with us, but we‟ve had a bunch of different drummers… Mike Perthnoy played with us on a couple of shows. The idea of that is there can be this rotating line up, that the band can go work whenever guys are available and want to go out and have some fun and do some shows. No one‟s ever kicked out of it, it‟s just the membership keeps growing, and it‟s all just in good fun for the members and certainly for the fans. That‟s mostly a lot of international touring whenever that group works. The F5 stuff that I did, we did 2 records, some touring behind that, and for now that will just sit on the sidelines until the day may come when we want to get together and write another batch of tunes and make another record. I‟ve got a couple other things coming up that will be announced a little closer towards the end of the year, things that will come out around the Nam show and things like that, concerts in January. Everyone can go to Megadeth.com for Megadeth stuff and for me personally: DavidEllefson.com. I‟m on Facebook and MySpace so people can find me and find out what I‟m up to.

PI: You had mentioned at the beginning that touring took so much of a big part of you. What are some of the ups and downs of touring?

DE: The lifestyle, scheduling, is probably the biggest part of it. I‟m pretty disciplined in what I do, as far as the eating good, working out, being healthy, and practicing a lot, working on things. In fact we‟re working on maybe putting out another End Game song into the live show, so that‟s what we‟re working on, so sound checks and backstage here we‟re practicing that warm up. I think part of it is just keeping the disciplines going and then the other part of it is you have to learn to be resilient and go with the flow because things come up, things happen. Like weather, tonight is an outdoor venue, so the comforts of being in a climate controlled venue don‟t exist tonight (laughs). So, sometimes you just roll into certain situations like that that change from night to night. As long as you keep your body healthy then the rest of it comes kind of your mind and your soul, keeping yourself spiritually fed and mentally fed with stuff to do, reading books, watching TV, doing things that are nourishing and occupy your time. They say „Idle hands are the devil‟s workshop.”, so that‟s one of the things on the road is, the distractions of temptation can lead you off the mark.

Those are the biggest things. I just got to take my life at home and move it on the road so that way when I get off the road it doesn‟t feel so strange to be home either.

PI: When you are home, what do you miss about being on the road?

DE: When you‟re home your life is pretty consistent; you wake up and go to bed around the same time, you‟ve got a car you‟re driving, three meals. Your schedule is pretty blocked and it‟s good. I think human beings like to have a flow of their day. Being on the road that flow is very much interrupted a lot. Our schedule is pretty consistent day to day, we arrive, wake up. Getting sleep on the road is one of the biggest things. Sometimes you go home and that‟s what you get caught up on. I find that being a musician and traveling are two things that work really well together. As an artist and a musician, I, personally, am inspired by moving and seeing things and meeting different people and hearing different perspectives. I‟m generally a pretty liberal kind of person. I mean, my lifestyle‟s pretty conservative quite honestly. Especially now that I‟m a little older I got a wife and kids, so that side of my life is pretty conservative, but my thinking and my mindset is very liberal. I‟m very open minded to things and I like running into people; sometimes a different accent, a different culture, a different food, a different political outlook. I love those things and those to a large degree have been very inspirational to Megadeth songs over the years, or lyrics. So I look at touring as an opportunity to just continue to grow, because I think once you stop growing that‟s when you start dying, and for me, the road is a place to grow.

PI: In 2011, you guys are supposed to be going back into the studio, putting together another album. Any concept behind it? Any tidbits you can give us about it?

DE: There isn‟t a concept and we‟ve never done a concept record before. But there are probably at least half a dozen tunes that are already pretty much in place, which means that the bulk of the work at least is already in motion. I‟ve been writing lyrics; Dave just started writing some lyrics. He probably has a lot of stuff that he‟s stored away, as well.

I‟ve got some musical ideas, Sean has a couple of things, so I think it‟ll be a cool time. To some degree, right now at this point we‟re sort of individually writing and collecting some things and at some point we‟ll throw it all out on the studio floor and then once we‟re in the room probably working with the 4 of us and a producer that‟s usually a good time to start getting all the ideas cemented together. Sometimes it‟s that producers extra ear that helps those ideas, because he may hear something that we‟ve heard a million times in our daily schedule that almost goes over your head that sometimes the outside ear goes “Oh, wait wait wait, play that again…what was that? That was cool, man. Why don‟t we use that as a bridge piece over here on this other song”. So, sometimes, that‟s why it‟s good to go into the studio pretty well equipped with a lot of ideas. We‟re not usually a band who walks into a studio with nothing and just starts from scratch. We did that once for Euthanasia and that was cool process too, but I think on this one we‟ve already got a lot of ideas in place and we‟re very excited from the year already. A lot of the enthusiasm has inspired us to have a lot of stuff ready.

PI: Who did you look up to when you were coming up? Who did you admire musically? And now, how do you feel when you look back amongst your career and you realize all these other kids are now looking up to you?

DE: I‟m from the KISS generation (laughs). In fact it‟s funny that I kind of had this idea that there‟s sort of Sabbath and Kiss guys, and then there‟s Zeppelin and Aerosmith guys (laughs). There‟s like two schools, and I liked the KISS side. It was less kind of bluesy rock and roll and it was a little more darker, it was heavier, it was black and fire and

blood and I loved that. That, to me, was cool. There was nothing ordinary about that and I loved that. Black Sabbath was scary and spooky dark music. Then Judas Priest and these early Maiden records came out when I was a teenager, when I was honing my chops as a bass player. I find that the stuff that influences you in your formative years as a musician, that‟s kind of the stuff that stays with you forever. Along the way, you hear a lot of other things, you might study, take some lessons, get inspired by various things, but the bedrock of your repertoire really forms in your formative years as a musician. One thing that‟s kind of funny is I was also a Rush fan, like when I heard „All the World‟s a Stage‟ live album, now the Rush movie just came out...essentially Megadeth is kind of a contemporary of Rush. We play the same buildings, our records are in the same record shops together, but I‟m still a fan of theirs. I haven‟t listened to much Rush for actually quite a few years, but to go back and watch the movie as a fan…it‟s kinda cool to just be a fan again because I think we all start in this business as fans and eventually you become a professional and it‟s easy to get jaded, too. It‟s easy to lose that kid, kind of stars in your eyes, the wonder, “wow, I wonder what it would be like to do that?”. As you learn how to do it and do it daily it‟s easy to get jaded and that‟s something for me over the years that I‟ve tried to just kind of remain that teenage kid the whole time. I think you have a lot more fun, I think the fans appreciate it, because you remember what it‟s like to be on the other side of the stage, just being a fan. For me that‟s a healthier way to get out of bed in the morning and approach this, like “Glad to be here and lets go give the fans what they want today.”

PI: Dave, I want to say thanks so much for sitting down and giving us a chance to get Plug‟d In. DE: Yes, you‟re welcome.

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Jason Hook of Five Finger Death Punch Interview and Photo by Michael Demos and Liana Marie Liana and I got a chance to meet up with Jason in Camden, NJ right before Five Finger Death Punches show w/ Drowning Pool and Godsmack. We got a chance to sit on his bus and Jason is a really nice, laid back guy. He has years of experience and his wisdom is great. We wanted to know all about his career, his plans, and of course what's going on with Five Finger Death Punch. Here‟s what he had to say. M.D. PI: How did you start playing guitar?

JH: I was a huge Kiss fan. My next door neighbor turned me on to them. We were jamming to Destroyer and the Rock and Roll over albums. Back then those albums had like oil painted covers and when I opened the gatefolds and saw the pictures of them up on hydraulic lifts…then I knew. It was pretty clear from that point.

PI: Besides Kiss, what were you‟re musical influences early on?

JH: I really liked Ace Frehley. I thought he was a simple and melodic, yet constructive guy. I listened to Deep Purple quite a bit. When the 80‟s came around I was full on Eddie Van Halen. My walls were decked with everything Eddie van Halen. That was pretty much it.

PI: You mentioned about looking up to people as a kid, how does it feel to have kids looking up to you now?

JH: I don‟t know, do they? (Laughs)The whole thing feels surreal.

You imagine what it would feel like when you would reach a certain amount of exposure or popularity, but I don‟t think we really feel it from the inside. I do notice in certain areas we get recognized and people know who we are, but I don‟t think it like we are on the inside looking out. We still feel pretty normal. It does feel good obviously, but I think the most important thing is that I remember how special it was as a younger person to get attention from somebody you admired. I try to give that back. If there‟s some kid who stops us at the mall and says they like my playing, I try to make sure they leave with a positive experience.

PI: In your personal career as a guitarist, you were a session guitarist as well as a guitarist for Mandy Moore and Alice Cooper. How did those roles prepare you as a guitarist for Five Finger Death Punch?

JH: It‟s funny because everybody mentions this Mandy Moore gig, and I really don‟t talk about this because I don‟t want to push the fact that I played with these pop artists too much to the Metal press, but everybody mentions Mandy Moore and then funny thing is I spent 2 years with Hillary Duff. It was a much larger thing. We played stadiums for 2 years straight. Nobody mentions her though...it‟s always Mandy Moore.

PI: What sitcom or cartoon best represents Five Finger Death Punch?

JH: Family Guy. We‟re dark yet friendly, we‟re chaotic yet peaceful at the same time. It‟s an interesting group.

PI: Who would be Stewie?

JH: I‟m Stewie.

PI: What is the creative writing process for Five Finger Death Punch?

JH: The nice thing about this band is everybody has a role. It‟s not all coming from one person. Our other guitar player, Zoltan Bathory, is a leading factor of the band, but he likes teamwork. Essentially he brought me into the band in 2009 because we make a good team. I can speak for “War Is the Answer”, during the writing process I moved into his house for 2 and a half months with Jeremy Spencer. At the time Jeremy and I were living in L.A., and Zoltan and Matt were living in Vegas. Ivan was in Denver. So anyways, Jeremy and I moved into Zoltans house and were pounding away. We had an electric drum kit and little amps; we were just tossing around sections, riffs, and grooves. All day and every day. The beauty was we could get so many more hours out of our day than if we had to rent rehearsal space. If somebody wanted to lay down an idea late at night…it‟s all set up and ready to go. The station was ready to go 24 hours a day. We just built sections up at a time. We all had our own computers and that was how we got the bulk of our music done. We would send off completed tracks to Ivan and he would star sketching out his lyrics. He would sing it into a little tape recorder and send it back thru email. Technology is so cool! When it came time to upgrade some of the recordings we went to a real studio in Canada and did all real drums. The vocals, guitars, everything was done with proper equipment. The writing process though was pretty much us living together and working on computers.

PI: What do you do if you‟re on tour and you have “That Idea”.

JH: I usually lose it. We do have capturing devices set up and we have little amps and guitars if we need them. To lose a good idea sucks, but I find it hard to get into a focused, creative environment while on the road. It seems like all day long there‟s press, meet and greets, or we‟re tired from the night before, there‟s a lot of activity so it‟s difficult to get one block of 2 hours undisturbed where you can sink into a creative thing. To be honest, I don‟t find that a lot of writing gets done on tour.

PI: What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of touring?

JH: My least favorite is I feel limited in what I can get done. At home I‟m very proactive. I get up early, make lists, go out, get everything I need, and make projects. You have your vehicle. In your city you have your music store, your storage locker, your P.O. Box…everything‟s available. It‟s a managerial feel. When you‟re on the road and you need to print something, it could take all day. You want to make a private phone call but someone‟s jamming Saving Private Ryan in the front lounge. You can‟t even go to the bathroom unless you ask the driver to pull over. Basically the thing I like the least is I feel held up. I feel limited. My job is to shake hands and dance around on stage for an hour. If I were at home I‟d be in my home studio writing, recording, working with people, managing, ordering stuff…out here I feel held captive. A little bit. (Laughs)The upside is we‟re really lucky to be able to make a shitload of money…shitload of money! (Laughs) We get to play our own music and sell a product that we made. Everyone tells us how happy we‟ve made them. We enjoy the music obviously because we wrote it. The music part of it is cool, I just don‟t like sitting around.

PI: Five Finger Death Punch is finishing up touring for this year and you‟re getting ready to hit the studio for your 3rd album. Do you have any new music written yet and do you have any surprises for us?

JH: It‟s a little early to tell, but we‟ve passed around a couple of ideas and we did talk about trying to get some things started before we get off this run. I know we all feel like it has to be a great record. This album has been a nice step up from the last. We want the next one to be a step up. Its gonna require some hard work and focus.

That‟s all I can tell you right now. The surprise will be if we get it done on time.

PI: Any predictions for the Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup? JH: I don‟t follow tennis! (Laughs) PI: Let‟s talk about Ivan moody for a second. Obviously all the guys in Five Finger Death Punch are good looking

guys, but what is it about Ivan that makes the girls go crazy?

JH: Sexy? Wow! (Laughs) I wasn‟t expecting that to be the tail end of the question. (Laughs) He‟s charismatic. Ivan is the front man that I always dreamed I‟d be in a band with. He‟s real. He‟s confident. He‟s believable. When he‟s up there screaming at the crowd to put their fucking hands up, you believe it. The last thing you want is for him to point you out. He is that guy. He will pick you out. Some people just have that natural performer element and he‟s just that guy. The fact that he‟s in fairly good shape and he‟s charming….perhaps it gives him some sex appeal….Perhaps. I wouldn‟t know. (Laughs) PI: What animal would best describe you personally?

JH: I‟m a cat for sure. I‟m a snobby, anti social cat…just like mine. I have 2 cats. I have one cat named Mr. Farnsworth the Third and my other cat is Gibson the Explorer. That little fucker goes everywhere he‟s not supposed to. In the middle of the night I‟ll hear the cupboards go clunk because he‟s trying to unlock them. There‟s Ajax and Windex under there. That‟s not good.

PI: What do you think the future holds for Five Finger Death Punch?

JH: I would like to see it get to a point where we‟re headlining big venues and we have a supportive and loyal fan base where we can continue to do this. We like to do this. We have met bands that have been around a lot longer than we have and you see them subsiding, or their records aren‟t selling as well as they used to, and it makes me think about what we can do to hang on to our level of success or build to it. We‟re paying very close attention to trying to avoid some of the pitfalls. We‟re pretty much all sober too. It didn‟t start that way. (Laughs) I see a lot of musicians and bands just turn into a rolling drunk tank. We‟ve all had our rounds with that kind of behavior, but for the most part we checked it and realized that if we want this to continue we have to treat it as a career. You can‟t go to your job at Pepsi, Addidas, or IBM hung-over everyday and make deals and perform your duties. It wouldn‟t happen. My role models are Kiss, like we talked about and Gene Simmons didn‟t turn out like some others did. He always said I‟m gonna kill this and he did! I‟m thinking he‟s a good model for me.

PI: Thanks for sitting down with us and giving us a chance to get Plug‟d In. JH: Hell yea! And thank God I got a chance to Plug you in! (Laughs)

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Daniel Davison of Underoath Interview and Photo by Liana Marie I can't express to you the appreciation I have for Underoath. They've been my absolute favorite band, for years. Despite the different line up changes, they have, and will always remain my favorite band. These extremely talented individuals have yet to disappoint me. Again, they brought a wild show, and their set was great! I had the pleasure to converse with their newest addition, Daniel Davison. He was a very friendly and interesting guy. He has accomplished so much; he's very talented, and I feel as if Underoath made another great choice making him a part of their band. I enjoyed the laughs and information we shared doing this interview. I hope you will enjoy it too. Here's what Daniel had to share with us... L.M. PI: How are you doing today, Daniel?

D: I‟m doing good, just hanging out in Toledo, Ohio.

PI: Would you mind naming each member, including yourself, and their role in your band?

D: Yeah, sure! My name is Daniel Davison and I play the drums. Our singer‟s name is Spencer Chamberlain. James Smith is one of our guitar players. The other guitar player‟s name is Tim McTague. Our bass player‟s name is Grant Brandell. And our keyboard player‟s name is Chris Dudley.

PI: Let‟s start out with the history of Daniel Davison...Where is it you were born and raised?

D: I was born just outside of Atlanta. I also grew up there, about 20 minutes west of Atlanta, Georgia.

PI: I understand that at an earlier time in your life you developed an appreciation for many types of art, one example specifically being photography... What ignited such an interest?

D: I don‟t know. I‟ve always just been kind of drawn to different forms of art; photography being one of them. All throughout school, art class was always kind of my favorite class. Then, when I got into high school...I‟m thinking 9th grade, I took graphic arts and photography. I really liked my teachers in both of those classes. They encouraged me to explore the world of art and my ideas, as well as the different approaches each of those forms of art have. That‟s what set it off, mainly, my photography class in high school. (PI) That‟s actually what I‟m going to school for, currently. (D) That‟s awesome! I love it. (PI) As do I! PI: Could you tell us a little bit about your experience or history with art? Did you find your talent or interest in photography or other forms of art useful?

D: Yeah! Yeah. Right around that same time that I was really getting into that, I had been playing music for a couple of years. Right around the time, I guess you could say it started to get more serious. So, I was constantly doing artwork for our band, making flyers, designing CD packages, making videos etc. I started doing all that. I also

did a number of designs for the band(s); merchandise and CD layouts. It began to progress beyond photography as I started working with film and video. I shot, edited, and created a lot of video for my old band, “Norma Jean”, which we would use. We would use it as a projection at our shows or DVD menus. After I quit that band, I started a company doing music videos and design. S0 yes, it‟s partially been my job for the last couple years.

PI: Do you still have the same love and appreciation for mixed media art, as you had years ago? Currently, do you still include those in your daily life?

D: Yeah. I mean it‟s not something that I have a whole lot of time for, right now. But yeah, it‟s definitely something that I‟m constantly thinking about. I‟m always writing down ideas that I‟d like to complete as some point. I‟m also still working with video, pretty consistently.

PI: Around what age did you discover your interest in playing the drums?

D: I must‟ve been about 13. Age 13, is when I actually started playing. I was interested at an even younger age, but, that is when I got the drum kit. I was around age 13; I was in 8th grade.

PI: What inspired you to become so interested in playing this instrument?

D: I just loved music. I was really into music. I loved the passion and energy you put into it. I thought it was a really powerful thing. Then, basically I just wanted to see if I could do it, you know? So, I got my first drum kit and started jammin„with friends. It later developed into starting a band. Eventually, all of that lead to touring etc. Now, here I am, over 10 years later and on tour.

PI: What would you say actually began your musical career? How did you get involved in the music business?

D: A long time ago, through Facebook, MySpace, Twitter...when it was just starting to become used for bands and things like that. I would look up different bands and their websites. I mean, our band already played shows locally and around Atlanta. I would see what bands were going on tour then I would contact the venues that they were playing to see our band could jump on the shows. It ended up working a few times. So, we got to play shows with bigger bands. We continued doing that for a little while, and then we started touring. We toured around the Southeast. Eventually it began to expand, and we ended up doing a couple tours around the country. We didn‟t have a booking agent or management, so I just took care of all of that myself. I also book all of our shows and handled all the money and everything. So, I‟ve learned a lot through that. I kept doing that until we got so busy that I couldn‟t handle it anymore. We ended up hiring people to take care of that for us. It was a long process; it definitely didn‟t happen over night. But overall, I think it was a really good experience. It was a really cool process to be a part of.

PI: You mentioned your former band, Norma Jean... Could you tell us a little about your past accomplishments and music projects, such as Norma Jean, before you joined Underoath?

D: Yeah. Norma Jean was the main project that I was a part of. Basically, from the time I was about 14 until about 3 years ago, I‟ve been doing that. So, I was apart of that for about 10 years. That was the main band that I was in. We toured all over the world. I kind of grew up with Underoath. We played shows together; toured together, back in the day. So I‟ve known these guys for about 10 years. So, I did that. Then, I quit playing with Norma Jean, after recording about 4 records with them. I quit the band in 2007. I didn‟t really play music as much for the past 3 years, until the beginning of this year. In January of 2010, I started playing with a band called, “Colour Revolt.” They were one of my favorite bands. Their drummer ended up quitting. Through a few different people I ended up getting together with them. I finished writing a record as well as recorded a record with them back in February of this year, which came out this August. After we were done record that record is when Underoath hit me up. I decided to work with them instead.

PI: Is that how you and Underoath were actually brought together?

D: Yeah. We‟ve been friends forever. We‟ve known each other since our bands were kind of first starting out. With me being from Atlanta, they were from Florida, so they were pretty close. We would play shows together pretty regularly, around the Southeast. Then, we‟ve come to touch over the years. I‟ve been friends with all of them but, Timmy and I kept touch pretty consistently over the last couple years.

PI: When did you officially join Underoath?

D: I guess it was after...I came on and started playing with them back in April. We wrote the record together for April and May. Then, all of June and into the beginning of July we were in the studio recording the record. JulyAugust I had my first tour with them, which was, “The Cool Tour.” That tour was with As I Lay Dying and some other bands over the summer. I guess it was when we were on that tour...there‟s really no specific date. I would say it was towards the end of that tour or right after that tour that it became “official.” ...So, around August, I would say.

PI: You said you‟ve been friends with them so, I‟m sure that definitely plays a part...But how is it working with the rest of the guys?

D: It‟s great. Everything‟s pretty smooth.

PI: On November 9th 2010, you‟re latest album “Ø Disambiguation” was released... Is there any significance or meaning behind the title of this album?

D: Yeah. And I‟m sure we all have our own interpretations of what the title means and what it means to us. But, first off, I just think it sounded really cool; it‟s a cool word. I also thought it made a lot of sense, with the changes that have gone on in the band recently as well as me being a new member and kind of taking on a new sound and a new direction. A lot of people are maybe worried...or kind of curious about what was going to happen. Disambiguation basically means to just put it all out there; hide nothing; tell it like it is. It‟s a statement saying, “This is who we are, right now.” “This is what Underoath is.” The way that the whole thing kind of came up was... the O slash symbol or, “Ø”, which Underoath has used as a logo for the last couple years.... Disambiguation happens to be one of the meanings of that symbol. It just all went together and made sense.

PI: What are your opinions on this album? What you have changed anything or done anything differently?

D: No, I love it! I love it the way it is.

PI: What is your favorite song to perform live?

D: It would probably be track 06; “My Deteriorating Incline.” It‟s one of my favorite songs to play live, for sure.

PI: Underoath recorded an official music video for “In Division”, off of your latest album... It looks like the process of creating this video was a lot of fun. (D) Yeah it was. (PI) Yeah, it‟s definitely a great video! ...At any point were you actually under water?

D: Yeah. We were underwater a lot; as a lot of the video appeared to be underwater. All together, I‟d say we were underwater for about half of the time. There were basically 3 different set ups. The first set that we were performing it on started off dry but throughout the shoot they began dripping or pouring water into the set, over us. The second set up was half-way submerged in water, with our instruments all floating around. The last set up was completely submerged underwater. (PI) That was one of the things that really caught my interest or curiosity... I mean clearly you weren‟t playing your actual instruments...were you? (D) No. I mean we were sort of playing them, but not as we normally would. The guitars weren‟t plugged in or anything like that. (PI) Right. It didn‟t damage your equipment? (D) Yeah. It completely ruined it. But, it was a cheaper version; used specifically for the video. (PI) Okay, that makes sense.

PI: Was the making of this video, “In division”, a long process?

D: Yeah. It was about 2 full days worth of time we all put into it.

PI: It just a moment... When I say”Go!” You‟re going to have 60 seconds to convince the world why they should buy “Ø Disambiguation.”

PI: So, how has tour been so far? Have you been enjoying it?

D: Yeah, it‟s been really good. It‟s been a great tour; a lot of good times.

PI: ...And GO!

D: We, Underoath, have just recorded and released a new record called, “Ø Disambiguation.” We put a lot of time and finishing into it; including spending countless days staying up until 3 am writing and practicing. We are really happy with how it turned out. We spent 2 or 3 months writing and recording it as well as changing things and trashing things rewriting etc. I think the final product turned out really well. I‟m really proud of it. I‟m also really happy to be a part of it. I‟ve recorded about 5 or 6 different records over the last 10 years, and I think definitely I am most proud of this one. I think that if you are a fan of heavy music, and like something different than the normal “run of the mill-popular” heavy music, I think that this is a record that is worth listening to.

PI: What can we expect from Underoath in the future?

D: As of right now, I think we‟re just going to be touring a whole lot. We‟ll finish this tour, have some time off for Christmas, and then be starting a headlining tour in January. We‟ll be on this tour from January until March or late February. We will be bringing Thursday out on tour with us, as well as a couple of other bands. So, it should be a good tour. I think after that we will be doing a bunch of international touring. Beyond that, I‟m not really sure at the moment. Basically, touring and more records.

PI: You‟ll be coming through Pa, correct? I hope so!

D: Yeah. We will be playing Philly on that tour with Thursday. I believe we are playing at the Trocadero. (PI) Sweet!

PI: Did you have anything else you would like to add or share with your fans?

D: Thank you. Thanks to all the fans for their support! Pick up the new record, if you haven‟t checked it out yet.

PI: Thanks so much for your time and giving us the chance to get Plug‟d In. I really appreciate it.

D: Yeah, no problem! Thank you!

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Dan Jacobs of Atreyu Interview and Photo by Michael Demos Dan Jacobs is a phenomenal guitar player. His shredding style is a key factor in the glue that makes Atreyu the heavy-weights they are today. We caught up with Dan before his show @ the Croc Rock and he is such a laid back, down to earth guy. I really enjoyed talking to him and here‟s what he had to say……M.D. PI: Dan, we wanted to ask you, right now, how‟s the tour going?

DJ: So far, so good. It‟s the first headliner we‟ve done in a few years and all the bands on the tour are bands we‟ve toured with before or know from other experiences and stuff so it makes it a little bit easier coming into it, just knowing everyone already. So, it‟s been fun so far.

PI: Congregation of the Damned has been out for a while now. Now that you guys had a chance to fully digest it being out, and your fans had a chance to react to it, what direction do you see Atreyu taking in the future now?

DJ: Well, even just from all of our experiences from all the records, we worked with so many different producers and so many different people and I feel at the end of the day like when we kind of just do our own thing and don‟t work with producers, just write our own shit, which we do anyway, but I mean as far as letting other people kind of whisper in your ear and stuff like that, our stuff comes out the best. So, we‟re probably going to go back to that a little bit, and I don‟t know, it might be a little bit heavier, might be more Death Grip on Yesterday-ish.

PI: Right now, in our opinion at least, there seems to be a split in the Atreyu fan camp. You got new fans, you‟ve got the older fans, and they‟re very, very opinionated. Do you have any idea why they feel the way they do?

DJ: Yea, I mean, our newer stuff sounds a little bit more melodic. It doesn‟t sound just like our older stuff. But, all of our music, even from day one, it‟s kind of been all over the place to some extent and it‟s just hard to please everyone. At the end of the day, you always win, but you always don‟t win at the same time. Everything we put out we‟ll have fans that love it, new and old, and

everything we put out we‟ll have fans that hate it, new and old, so you just kind of have to do your thing and as long as you‟re having a good time and write what you back and just put your heart into it, that‟s all you can really do.

PI: Are you guys going to throw out another video for this album?

DJ: No, not for this one.

PI: What about for Covers of the Damned?

DJ: No, that‟s just kind of a fun thing we did just for the story.

PI: I want to ask you, since Covers is out, who did your favorite song on that album?

DJ: That‟s a tough one. I‟d say either our version of “Living on the Edge” by Aerosmith or that Deftone‟s cover is really good. It‟s Brandon from Chiodos singing and Travis our guitar player and our bass player Mark on it. Or Dead Kennedy‟s, the Endless Hallway… guys really went to town on that one. It‟s so spooky and darker and heavier than the original one.

PI: We all know that you love 80‟s metal, that‟s your thing. Is there a song from that era that you would love to cover, but Atreyu style?

DJ: I don‟t know. That‟s a tough one. There are a lot of songs that I would love to cover, a lot of bands. It‟s just a matter of, when Atreyu picks the covers; could we pull this off Atreyu style? Will it make sense if we do it our way? (PI) Any particular band? Instead of a song, maybe a band?

(DJ) I‟d love to do a Def Leppard song or a Van Halen song, Ratt, Scorpions; I love Scorpions, that‟s probably one of my favorites.

PI: Now, you‟re involved with Rokk clothing; that‟s your clothing line. I wanted to ask you, how has the venture with that been going currently?

DJ: It‟s actually kind of spun into two different things. It was a clothing line, but in sort of doing that we started working with all these other companies, designing stuff for them, and we ended up, my brother Joe and I, we started a merchandising company called Rockworld Merchandise and we work with a bunch of bands, we work with Kat Von D, Monster Energy Drinks, Razor Rob McCullough the fighter; we‟ve done stuff with Josh Barnett, Clay Guida, and tons of people, a lot of bands and stuff like that. Its cool man, it‟s like a whole nother experience its cool because you start a band with your friends and it becomes big, and we did this. It‟s cool because I get to do this with my brother, and for him seeing me do this for so many years it‟s cool for him to have something that he can latch onto and we‟ve just got tons of stuff going on together.

PI: Since you are so busy, how do you find time, how do you manage time personally to take care of everything?

DJ: Surprisingly, I have a decent amount of free time. On tour, other than our sound check which takes a half an hour, from maybe 3-3:30 and then our time when we actually play and maybe the occasional interview we just sit around all day watching TV and just picking our butts. There‟s nothing else to do really, you know. So in that time, before I wasn‟t really doing anything with it and then since about 2007 I‟ve been trying to use my free time to like, you can never have your hand in too many pots.

PI: How has being in the band, and the fact that you guys tour so much, how has it affected your

personal life or your family life?

DJ: Family life, it can be a little rough. Just when there‟s people getting married or deaths in the family, sicknesses, stuff like that it‟s a little hard when you‟re away having girlfriends and all that, but I‟ve been single for a long time so I haven‟t really had to deal with any of that, but other dudes are married and they got to deal with trying to get their wives out here on tour and trying to work around their wives‟ work schedules. That can be strenuous on you a little bit. but I like it because it gives fuel for the fire for lyrics, it fuels the music.

PI: What about the personal life, do you prefer the single life? Does this fit real nice?

DJ: It makes it a little easier in one sense, because I don‟t have to deal with worrying about someone back home or try to fly anyone out here or anything like that, but the grass is always greener on the other side.

PI: If you could pick one thing inside the music industry to change, what would you change about it?

DJ: I don‟t know, maybe the internet end of things, the downloading. Not that I‟m opposed to it entirely, but I think with such easy easy access to music, it makes people not as hungry for it and bands just don‟t have that prestige like they used to back in the day. People can download records, listen to it real quick and move onto the next one, but I mean, back in the day, you go buy a cd you save up for it, you got to go to the store and physically buy it, you sit there and you read the lyrics on the record and learn every word, you listen to that cd over and over again until its fucking broken it doesn‟t even work anymore and you get tired of it. Then you go out and you buy another cd and you really take it in where you appreciate that music more than if you just download it and listen to a couple songs and “yea yea, its cool, yea, that‟s good I like that, next next next”. That‟s just how easily accessible it is nowadays.

PI: There‟s a high profile case where a woman was just fined by superior courts for like 1.5 plus million dollars for 24 songs. What‟s your opinion on that?

DJ: They‟re trying to be like hey, we‟re cracking down on this more. The music industries, especially record labels, are hurting hard. A lot of them are going under or not doing so well and they need to think of other ways to do this because you got the internet and stuff and every band is becoming their own entrepreneur. You almost don‟t need record labels anymore, they‟re just a bank. They have connections. If you could do it yourself, you could put your music out there for free and it just gets out there, you become huge and set up tours and do all that shit without them and that scares the shit out of them because what are they supposed to do. So they‟re probably trying to find someone like her and slap her on the wrist real hard and make an example of her to some extent. That‟s what I‟m guessing PI: You were featured in IMV‟s “Behind the Player”, the DVD series. How was the response to that?

DJ: It was cool. It took kind of another angle and then let people see that, especially on a more personal level and the level of a guitar player. Not being so much about the band but about me and what I bring to my band, what influences me, which is essentially a big part of what molds Atreyu to some extent.

PI: In your career, what do you want to do that you haven‟t been able to do?

DJ: I just want to go to all the places we‟ve never been, I mean any place you can physically play a

show in, I want to go there. We‟ve been all around the world. I‟ve flown around the world several times. I want to go down to South America a little bit more. I‟d like to go to Africa. I‟d like to tour around the Asian territory a little bit more. We‟ve dabbled in there but not entirely. I don‟t know. I just want to see more. Traveling is probably one of my favorite things about being in a band; getting to see the world and opening your eyes up to so many amazing things. I just want to travel more.

PI: You‟ve got your own signature guitars. Think back to yourself as a kid. Alright, we got little Dan, did you ever see yourself being this big, like having guitars modeled after you, kids looking up to you? How does it feel?

DJ: It‟s crazy. Stuff like that, I mean, for anything, you want to go big, you got to dream big. For anything, you got to think big. And I always thought big and it‟s what I wanted and it‟s what I imagined myself having and doing, but until you get it, it doesn‟t really become a reality. You‟re just like, “I‟m going to do this.” or “I‟m going to do that.” and “I want to be famous.”, “I want to be like that guy.” and “I want to be like this person in this band.”, and you fast forward and all the shit happens and it‟s crazy to look back and be like “Wow, I actually did get big”. If you really go for it, it works.

PI: What‟s the one thing you wish your fans knew about you, that they don‟t know about?

DJ: I think they know a lot about me. There‟s not really much to me, I‟m pretty cut and dry to some extent like I‟m kind of a weird dude. But I like to play guitar, I like Japanese food, I like drinking…smoking stuff sometimes (laughs).

PI: What about the band as a whole? What don‟t people know about Atreyu that they should?

DJ: We‟re all like brothers. A lot of bands don‟t get along internally very well, so to say. Everyone has their differences and whatnot. But all of these dudes, especially our singer Alex and drummer Brandon, I went to middle school with so I‟ve known them for almost 20 years. I‟ve known them for a long time. It‟s a totally different sensation when you get to grow up with these people and do this and travel the world with these people. I don‟t know, it‟s cool.

PI: These are special guest questions that are submitted by some of our readers. None of them are related, but these are the questions: Anthony Dobranski wants to know “Lead Sails Paper Anchor was not as hard as your previous stuff. Why?” DJ: I think it was just our way of venting a little bit. As far as the whole singing and screaming thing, we were one of the first bands in that whole genre doing that whole thing and as soon as we start seeing a lot of other bands doing that, not that we‟re the only ones doing that or it‟s all about us or anything, but when you other bands doing it or other people doing a lot of stuff that starts to become really popular, that shies us away from it a little bit. We just want to be different and we don‟t want to fit the mold of everything else. That was kind of our thing from the start is the fact that we were different from everybody else and we always want to be different from everybody else and for fans and even for ourselves as musicians to keep ourselves interested in it. If we just wrote the same record over and over again, we‟d get bored. We wouldn‟t still be here if we just wrote the same record over and over again. It keeps our minds fresh, keeps us wanting to be in the game.

April Yurkonis wants to know, “What do you personally do in your spare time?”

DJ: I play golf, my rendition of golf. It‟s one of those games I thought it was going to be an old persons sport so I tried it and I hit that perfect shot. I see beautiful golf courses all over the world and we bring our golf clubs and you go these places and it‟s like going to this beautiful park or something. You just drive around for a couple of hours, get away from the show a little bit, hang out with your friends, have a couple beers, check out even the animal life, the trees, and everything that‟s different depending on where you are in the world. It makes me look at cities differently. My view on cities everywhere I go is, see the dirty part of town where the club is, but then you go and you see this beautiful golf course and this beautiful foliage and like “Oh this is so quiet and relaxing and peaceful”. It‟s like the yin to the yang of being in a loud rock and roll band.

I think that‟s why I like it so much, its so the opposite.

Kevin Piccioni wants to know, “Why do you guys never get any airplay from these shit ass local radio stations? All they ever play is the mainstream stuff.”

DJ: That‟s why they‟re shit ass local radio stations (laughs). No, I mean there are only a few special stations out there that really go out on a limb and play some aggressive stuff, or play stuff that‟s a little left of center. It‟s a shame because there‟s a huge fan base out there for people that want to listen to stuff that‟s not the “shove-down-your-throat mainstream bullshit”.

PI: Dan, I want to say thanks so much for sitting down with us, giving us a chance to get Plug‟d In. DJ: Yea, thanks for having me, I appreciate it. And if you want to check out my clothing line its www.rokkclothing.com and if you want to check out my merchandising company its www.rockmerch.com.

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Michael Demos Editor/Publisher/Development What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/subgenre's): Hardcore, Metalcore, NuMetal, Thrash Favorite Bands: Hatebreed, Five Finger Death Punch, Slayer, Atreyu, Korn, Metallica, The Devil Wears Prada, For Today Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year: Five Finger Death Punch, Slayer, Rob Zombie Favorite person you've got to meet this year: Kerry King- Slayer Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: Meeting and working with so many great people and bands.

Hobbies: Racquetball, Photography, Building Models Biggest way you waste time: Facebook Personal Goals for the future: Keep working and playing with all the passion and dedication in the world. Taking care of my children and help them grow up to be great people.

Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: All of them!

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Nicole Stella Writer/Photographer What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/ subgenre's): Metal and hardcore mostly, but I'm also a big fan of older rap.

Favorite Bands: Parkway Drive, The Acacia Strain and Necrophagist Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year: The Black Dahlia Murder, Between the Buried and Me, and Four Year Strong Favorite person you've got to meet this year: Jeremy Hiebert of Comeback Kid. Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: I've met some of the greatest people since working here and I couldn't ask for much more than that. The music scene has been a huge part of my life for years so I'm happy that through Plug'd In, I can share that with everyone.

Hobbies: Video games and photography.

Biggest way you waste time: Call of Duty and Left for Dead.

Personal Goals for the future: Finishing college is all I have on my list right now.

Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: Cradle of Filth is first on my list, but I'm also keeping my fingers crossed for Unearth and August Burns Red.

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Bandi Budwash Writer/Reviewer What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/ subgenre's) Rock N Roll and Metal Favorite Bands: Motley Crue, Dirty Penny, RATT, Murderdolls, W.A.S.P, Alice Cooper Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year.

LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Dirty Penny Favorite person you've got to meet this year: Tracii Guns Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: Bossman is the coolest Hobbies: Chaos, panic and disorder Biggest way you waste time: I have no time to waste.

Personal Goals for the future: Mass destruction Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: Eh

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Nicole Marie Writer/Photographer What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/subgenre's): Hard Rock, Metal, Death Metal, Southern Metal Favorite Bands: Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Zakk Wylde & Black Label Society, HammerFall, Slayer, Damageplan, HELLYEAH! Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year.

GWAR, Cattle Decapitation, Cannibal Corpse Favorite person you've got to meet this year: George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher & Jerry Only (Misfits) Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: The Music and the Men! =) Hobbies: Going to Shows, Road Trips, Fishing, Friends, Photography Biggest way you waste time: Driving. Anywhere and Everywhere.

Personal Goals for the future: Continuing w/ Plug'd In. Getting into Med School.

Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: Cradle of Filth!

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Liana Marie Writer/Photographer/Development What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/ subgenre's) Hardxcore, Metal...Metalcore & some indie-ish sounding tunes Favorite Bands: UNDERﾃ連TH, Emarosa, August Burns Red, [Top 3 in order] Emmure, Miss May I, A Day To Remember, The Word Alive, The Devil Wears Prada, For Today, Sleeping With Sirens, Bless The Fall Lydia, Circa Survive, & Mayday Parade.

Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year: Underoath, Emmure, The Devil Wears Prada Favorite person you've got to meet this year: If I could only choose one...probably, Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail. Though, It's extremely hard to choose. I really enjoyed meeting Jeremy McKinnon, Neil Westfall, Kevin Skaff, & Joshua Woodard [Basically all of A Day To Remember]. As well as, Mark Davis, Jesse Ketive, Frankie Palmeri of Emmure. There was hardly any bands I worked with, that I didn't enjoy meeting & hanging out with, honestly.

Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: The Obvious. Displaying some of my work. Not to mention working with all types of Phenomenal artists; and a few of my favorite bands. As well as meeting & Hanging out with all types of people from all over the world.

Hobbies: Photography, Photography, Photography, & more Photography Biggest way you waste time: Photography, Photography, Photography, Shows, Shoots, Shows, Shoots, Shows, Photography, & More Photography. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Personal Goals for the future: To work with every single one of my favorite bands, to make tons more friends, to spread the word about Liana Marie Photography..And eventually open up my own studio & work for a major Fashion and or music promotional magazine. Yeah, That would be lovely. I'd also like to shoot, meet, and somehow work with Eminem and Lil' Wayne.

Some of you will hate that statement & some of you will love it...But I'm content.

Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: Well, there's a lot of those. It depends on how things work out. I would like to work with Emarosa, August Burns Red, Thursday, Underoath; Over & Over again, Sleeping With Sirens, Parkway Drive, Whitechapel; Mainly & off of the top of my head. There are so many more.

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Vikki Sinn Writer/Reviewer What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/subgenre's): Horrorcore, Metal Favorite Bands: Marilyn Manson, I.C.P., Twiztid, Gwar, Alice Cooper, The Birthday Massacre, Peirce The Veil Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year: Pierce The Veil, I.C.P., Suicide Silence Favorite person you've got to meet this year: Rob Zombie Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: The chance to meet all the bands.

Hobbies: Tattooing, Going to Concerts, Painting Biggest way you waste time: Facebook Personal Goals for the future: Further myself as an artist.

Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: Twiztid, Peirce The Veil, Gwar

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Curt Ridall Writer/Photographer What are your favorite types of Music (Genre's/ subgenre's) Rock , Metal, Bluegrass,Jazz, Irish Favorite Bands: Halestorm, Madam Adam, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Incubus, Slipknot, Aranda, Sevendust, My darkest days, Fools for Rowan Top 3 Favorite Bands you've seen this year: My top 5 Halestorm, Flogging Molly, 3 Days Grace, Sevendust, Madamadam Favorite person you've got to meet this year: Joey Vento it was NYE so it counts. He invited us in took pictures with us, bullshit'ed for awhile, gave us a bunch of free shit, tshirts, pens, bumper stickers. One of the highlights of the mini tour with Halestorm.

Coolest thing about working with Plug'd In: All the new friendships I have made.

Hobbies: Photography, graphic design, going to shows, drinking, geocaching, video games, My website/blog.

Biggest way you waste time: Filling out this questionnaire, just kidding. Facebook, twitter, Hale-chat Personal Goals for the future: Progress my career further into the realm of photography and artist promotion.

Bands that you are looking forward to meeting this year: A7X that I know of. Along with whomever the future holds.

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The Best of Dear Dead Abby From The Grave Abby was born and raised in the coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The oldest of eight, she constantly had her younger brothers and sisters asking her questions about everything from how things work to why that boy threw dirt on her. She‟d try to steer them straight with her advice, though sometimes she could be a bit sarcastic.

Abby also had an uncanny ability to see the truth in people, despite what they tried to portray with their lies. Unfortunately, this led the locals to believe that she was with surrounded with dark forces. The summer before her final year of school, Abby was sentenced to death by hanging, without a proper trial, simply stating that she was a witch. Abby can‟t recognize the faces of her family through death, but she answers questions, thinking it might be one of her siblings needing her guidance.

Q. My boyfriend doesn‟t really spend time with my son (from a previous relationship) although we live together.

We've been together 4 years and my son is now 7. I've tried everything I can to get them to bond and spend time together, but nothing works. I‟m really thinking of leaving him. What should I do? M.H. A. Your boyfriend is constantly reminded by your son that you've had another dick in you. Yeah, it's common knowledge that no one's been with only one person, but seeing him every day is very hard for some guys. It's basically a giant case of penis envy, and if your son has anything to do with his bio dad, it'll just keep bringing up the mental image of that guy having his dick in you. Leave him if you want, but if you want to avoid this problem in the future, turn lesbian.

Q. I play the lottery every week, but never win. What can I do to increase my odds of getting that big payoff?

D.A. A. Drive down to where you play the lottery, smash your vehicle through the window, and load up all the lottery machines into the vehicle.

Q. I cheated on my girlfriend with one of her friends. The problem is I really like her friend now. What should I do?

C.H. A. Does the friend feel the same about you? Look at it this way, when you cheated, why did you cheat? Was it a spur of the moment? Were you angry with your girlfriend? I think cheaters are lowlifes to begin with, regardless of the reason, but this other girl will see that you cheated on your current girlfriend with her, what's to stop you from doing it to her? In my opinion, this other girl should come clean to your girlfriend, and they should both head for the hills and get away from you.

Q. Why do women love chocolate so much? M.G. A. Chocolate contains phenyl-ethylamine, the same chemical released in the brain when falling in love. Women love falling in love; it's the hell that follows afterwards that presents the issue. Chocolate won't cheat on a woman, tell her she's no good, beat her, or anything else that bastard men do to a woman; hence why women always resort to chocolate when they need to be picked back up after being dropped.

Q. Sometimes my boyfriend gets really cranky for no reason. Do men get periods? S.S. A. Men do actually suffer from a form of PMS, called IMS, Irritable Male Syndrome, caused by a drop in testosterone levels. Anger, irritability, depression, anxiety and hyper-sensitivity are all symptoms. Men also can't deal with emotional issues and pain like women can, so something that a woman might shrug off will affect a man. They may be the stronger sex physically, but that's where it ends.

Q. Do you think the world will end in the year 2012? M.H A. No one knows if and when the world will end. Personally, I don't think the world will end, and it amuses me how upset people are getting over the ridiculous notion that we're all going to die in 2012. Simpletons.

Q. What is the best way to lose weight? S.A. A. Die; takes the weight off real fast.

You want to lose it the healthy way? Eat right and exercise. You'll feel good as well. Never try to become skinnier than your body type. If you're naturally a thicker woman, don't worry so much about becoming skinny, focus on becoming healthy. When you feel good about yourself, other people will see that in you. People who worry too much about keeping up with all the trends just irritate me. Be glad and make the most of what you have, clothes, friends, a home, your health. Some people don't have any of that. Pissing me off now....

Q. I want to go into the Army after I finish High School, but my Mom wants me to go to college. This is causing a huge fight. What should I do? R.C. A. Go National Guard or Air Force Reserves. You'll make yourself happy with joining the military, and you'll ease it on your mother by choosing one that has great schooling options. You can learn a trade and have your tuition paid for what you decide to take in college. Let her think that's the main reason that you're choosing it. If she still gives you grief about it, just do what makes you happy. In the end, that's what ultimately matters.

Q. Abby, a lot of my friends smoke weed. I just don‟t think it‟s for me, but I really feel pressured into doing it. What do I do? E.S. A. If you feel sot pressured that you are considering going against your beliefs, then you don't have a backbone or have very good friends. They should respect your decision and not try to pressure you into doing it. They want you to do it so bad so they're not alone in their stupidity. If you're not smoking weed, it makes you the smart one in the crowd, and it's only a matter of time before you see how pathetic they really are and leave their little circle. Stick to your principles and move on to better things.

Q. I keep getting picked on @ school by another kid in 12th grade. (I'm) in 9th. He's a lot bigger than me so I can‟t beat him up. How do I get him to stop picking on me? I really want to teach him a lesson. Anon A. Oooo, revenge.... Does he have a girlfriend or a girl he likes? If so, making him look stupid and pathetic in front of her would be a great way. If not, just making him look stupid in front of his buddies would work as well. I'm not sure how you'll do that, as I don't know the school situation, but I'm sure you can figure out some ideas.... People like that pick on people to make themselves feel better. He's basically a gorilla. He pounds his chest to look all big and bad and frighten people into not coming close, but he has no brains. That's how he makes up for it.

Q. My boyfriend wants to have sex before we go away to college. (We are both Virgins) I really love him, but I just don‟t want to do it before I get married. When I tell him this he gets mad and says I don‟t love him and that we should break up. What do I do? F.L. A. He's pulling the "if you loved me" card, pathetic moron. Get rid of him. You don't want to be pressured like that in a relationship. If he's pressuring you like this, it only shows that he is controlling, and it'll get far worse as you stay with him. The man you're with should respect you, and it's obvious that he doesn't just by saying that. Even if you didn't have sex with him and didn't break up, he'd get it elsewhere, probably at college. If you did have sex with him, you'd only regret it. You'll be sad for awhile, but you'll move on. You'll meet someone who deserves you, and you'll eventually encounter your current moron in the future and say to yourself, "What was I thinking? His poor wife...."

Q. If you are really dead, how can you talk to us and help us with our problems? R.R. A. You're a moron.

Q. I caught my boyfriend cheating again. I want to kick him out and put him on child support. If I do this he says he will never see our daughter again. I want him to be in her life. What do I do? R.M. A. Kick him out and put him on child support. He's obviously scum he doesn't give a damn about you or his daughter.

You're better off without someone like that in your life. Or, if you want to look on the bright side, maybe he's bluffing, and he'll realize that he wants to be in his daughter's life. Your choice, but if he's cheating, there's no point in sticking with it. Are you that desperate that you think that's the best you can do? A lowlife bastard who cheats on you, and then threatens you? Get some self-esteem. Move on with your life.

Q. My city is so violent and going down the drain. Is there any way to make it a nice place to live again? D.G. A. Burn it down or blow it up.

Q. I can‟t get my lazy ass boyfriend to help around the house. He always promises after we fight about it, but then go back to being a couch potato. What do I do? S.E. A. Take care of what you absolutely have to for yourself, but when it comes to his clothes, or his sink area or whatever, let it be.... When he runs out of clothes, he'll have to do them. Yeah, it might start another fight, but you have to get your point across.

Q. I‟m so behind in my bills and its really starting to stress me out. How can I get ahead here? A.L. A. Can you take up a part time job? If you can, put all that money towards bills. If you can't, try a budget. Cut out what you absolutely don't need, and focus on the most important things. Perhaps even go to a credit union or something and see if they have programs to help people budget their lives. Most people get behind on their bills because they have so many things they don't need.

Q. I‟m seeing a guy "unofficially" here in my city, but I like another guy about 2 hours away. I really want to give a shot with the farther away guy, but I don‟t want to hurt the feelings of my guy here. Do I have to end the relationship with the guy here? What if it goes bad with the other guy? I‟m kind of stuck here. Can you help? K.M A. Long distance relationships don't work. If you don't like the guy here, why are you "unofficially" seeing him anyway? And what's "unofficially" mean anyway? That you aren't committed to being in a relationship with each other so you're free to do whatever you want anyway? Like see someone else? Keeping options open? What if it goes bad?

That's a risk you take whether he lives here or two hours away. Sounds to me like you're a bit of a player....you want to keep this guy here on the leash so you won't be alone if things don't work out with the other guy.

Q: My boyfriend plays in a band. I know there are lots of girls at his concerts. How do I find out if he‟s cheating on me? A.J. A: First things first.....being in a band, the girls will be there, throwing themselves at him because "OMG, he's in a band!" Like it's so cool or something. If you can't handle that, then get out. Second, he'll flirt with them. It's his job.

That's what he signed up for. Get used to it. He doesn't have to be in a band to cheat. Any lowlife can cheat, seems like you're jumping the gun though. Do you have any reason to think he's cheating, or is it just that he's in a band?

Q: My daughters Father is such a screw-up. He can‟t hold down a job. He does get her faithfully and does pay support, but he has no motivation to get any better or become something to try and offer her a better future. What can I do to get him to wake up and be more responsible? B.K. A: Nothing. If he's perfectly content working a dead end job, then that's his choice. If he's paying support and is in her life, then be grateful for that much. There are women wishing their child's father would pay support, or see their kids. Can't win them all. Be thankful for what you have. If he's young, maybe he just hasn't figured out what he wants to do with his life yet. Get some info on programs at colleges and tech schools, and financial aid info and pass it along to him. Just see how he reacts to it. Go from there.

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