Source – Straight.com
Credit – systemofadownlive
John Dolmayan recently spoke to Straight.com and opened up about System of a Down’s hiatus. Read an excerpt below:
“You have to understand that, when you’re on the road and in the studio all the time, it’s kind of like travelling at light speed,” he says. “When you come back, it’s like 20 years have passed by, and you’re only one or two hours older. We’d go on tour and stay the same, but when we’d come home, things would have changed. It’s off-putting—you feel like you don’t have any roots anymore. You’re living a nomadic life, and you lose touch with people because they have grown away from you. People get older, get married, die—life is still going on.”
“And a band is a marriage,” Dolmayan continues, “except that you don’t have one headache, you have three to four headaches, and, on top of that, everyone having other people that influence each member. It’s almost like a congress, there are so many people involved. Ultimately, though, we make the decisions because we are the band. Our relationships are all intact, and we always have a great time together. The other day, it took us 20 minutes to start a rehearsal because we were all too busy laughing. I don’t even remember what was so funny, but that’s a sign that we don’t take things too seriously. We like to just get up there and play.”
