RC: I'm outside doing exercise laps around the Arena just
to hook up with these guys. I really dig the CD, it's
called Comencement. I'm hanging out with Dr. Nner and
Exeter. I wanted to say P. Exeter, is there a sexual
inuendo there?
Exeter: No, no sexual inuendo intended.
RC: You guys don't have the suits on, is that just on stage?
Exeter: The suits, that's usually formal gear. On stage we
got our stage wear which is a little more athletic for
stage activity.
RC: Kind of like Star Treck.
Exeter: There's an outfit for every ocasion.
Dr. Nner: We're in Deadsy street gear. I was just skating
from the bus to the Arena here.
RC: How good are you at boarding? As good as Tony Hawk?
Dr. Nner: I'll shred that guy (kiddingly).
RC: Maybe on the Playstation 2 game. You hooked up where and
how did you hook up with Korn's label Elemteree?
Exeter: Dr. Nner and myself met back in school, prep school
back in Maine. Everyone's kind of from all over. The
genius of the band started with Dr. Nner and myself,
meaning when we were young back in 1990. We started to
form the band around the mid-late 90s and we were on
Sire/Elektra for a while and we had some dramas and
misfortunes there. We ended up with Jonathon Davis's
label and Dreamworks because we kind of found someone
who really believed in what we were doing, and was will-
ing to take a risk in how much this band goes against
the grain of whats going on out there. It always has and
probably always will. So it's something that's really
special and something that's artist driven so we need
the support of someone like Jonathon to see this thing
through, out there in culture and in the industry.
There's allot of politics, a lot of beaurocracy.
RC: Oh yeah, we hear a lot of that on this show. Actually
we had Jonathon on, probably 8 years ago. How do you
feel about all of the turn of world events? Do you
feel you're kind of bringing in a style or gearing
towards a new world?
Exeter: The bands all encompassing to be true to whatever
all realities are, the history of mankind and the
current. And that's kind of what the band is forged
for, almost like a sage. The band is going to stay
neutral in it's own opinions and just translate the
realities. That's why as much as we're into current
things we're really into ancient structures, ancient
philosophies, and ancient civilizations kind of still
effect the current. How the humans can't escape the
humaness of all these things and how the tumultuous-
ness of all these are reflections of todays society.
So we're just going to take a little bit more of a
well rounded approach and not just pigeon-hole our-
selves into one specific genre. We're gonna be able
to breathe and change with however we change as people
and as a reflection of society as a whole.
Dr. Nner: It's really out in the game yet. This albums real-
ly kind of supposed to serve as like a Chapter 1.
RC: It's kind of like an ongoing saga. Now you hear the
first song "Key to Grammercy Park", which is completely
different from the rest of the CD, was that song written
specifically to catch the markets ear?
Dr. Nner: Well it's a good jam, first off. It's a fun song.
I guess it does kind of serve as a kind of trojan horse.
Exeter: Every band has one of those man. Every band has some-
thing, especially if you're really esoteric. You got to
have something that's gonna imediately grab people's
attention, to then give them something...
Dr. Nner: The attention span of a listener, you gotta have a
simple hook just to grab them and reel them in.
Exeter: It's a challenge for us to just step back from being
too out there and make something that is simple. In it's
simplicity it still has a lot of metaphysics, kind of
supernatural stuff brewing.
RC: Kind of like some of the 70s bands. Like you did a Rush
remake, like them every album was like this brilliant
work, up until a certain point I think.
Exeter: We were inspired by a lot of 70s prog. A lot of the
Brian Eno stuff, a lot of King Crimson, ElP. We're into
synth-pioneers, Moroder and Wendy Carlos. So we're well
diversed in all that classic stuff and so we almost
think of ourselves as preservationists because no one
else is showing the imporatance of the legacy of that
stuff in their music, and keeping it alive. So we feel
like we're making something new yet keeping the legacy
of all that stuff alive as well.
Dr. Nner: I don't even know what you'd call what's out there
now but everyone's definately riding the coattails of
it.
RC: Oh you hear that same thing, that drop down guitar tuning.
Exeter: It's also the record labels fault. When one thing
goes over everybody has to scury to get their version
of that one thing. So it's all about the money and for
the artists it's all about the glory. So we're lucky
to have the situation that we have. We have the support
of all the right people, which we certainly didn't have
before, politically speaking, talentwise, and artist
speaking. So we got Dreamworks, which is on the cutting
edge, and then we have someone like Jonathon in our
court, with the Elementeree situation, which is why we're
on this tour. So we have a real good hybrid of all kind
of things you need to have when you have something
that's really kind of against all formats. It's a chal-
lenge, none the less, no matter how good of a team we
have assembled to break this band. As we're seeing it
hasn't been the easiest at radio. So because I think
it's really against all formats, it's its own format,
people see that and it sends up red flags.
Dr. Nner: There's still money to be made in new metal, rap/
metal. We come to every city and we have to prove in
every single city that this stuff is going over live
and give everyone a reason to give us some spins. It's
a battle in every town.
RC: It is, there's just so many bands out there and a lim-
ited amount of money to advertise and revenues. Were
you guys in a fraternity or something? You kind of get
the vibe (refering to the CD cover).
Dr. Nner: This is the actual boarding school that he and I
went to. That's the mansion.
RC: And you added the skulls?
Exeter: There's a bunch of lore behind there.
Dr. Nner: That's called the sunken garden right there.
Exeter: It used to be a pond 100 years ago, because before
it was a school it belonged to this man. There were all
these legends about how haunted the place was.
RC: Was that the deal with the dude up there? (points to the
figure in the attic window)
Exeter: That's the actual library/attic that was totally
haunted.
RC: I stared at this for a while trying to decipher what it
was.
Dr. Nner: It's kind of like Mrs. Bates a little bit.
Exeter: We're just showing the classic pop culture, kind of
generic, of when somethings haunted. You know, the pro-
file of somebody in the window.
RC: It's got a very Warholesque approach to it.
Exeter: We're very into a pop art kind of way of displaying
what we look like.
RC: Now you guys all have symbols, we haven't seen that since
Led Zeppelin. What prompted you to come up with that?
Exeter: Sort of like Zeppelin, we wanted to carry on that idea
and that legacy. It's also in kind of the comic book
sense of just showing each persons individually but yet
they belong to something that's greater than them. So
it kind of just shows our alegiance to the one thing
which is like the world of Deadsy.
Dr. Nner: It gives each of us an identity yet makes us all
equal.
RC: Sort of a little mysticism with it. You hooked up with
Fred Durst in the video. What's he like to work with as
a director?
Exeter: We knew he'd respect the vision of the band, he's a
fan of the band. He'd let us do what we ultimately
wanted to do and we wouldn't have to deal with a director
for our first video who thought he knew what it should be
like. Fred really respected our visions, so that's why we
chose Fred. And he was an old friend.
Dr. Nner: He's been around watching the evolution of this band
and he had a sense for what we were going for. He was
basically the technical expert.
Exeter: We've been friends with DJ Lethal way before the House
of Pain days. I actually remember Limp Bizkit arriving to
LA for the first time like years ago.
RC: Well we'll let you go, thanks guys for coming on the show.
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