Richard Patrick, Filters (hybrid) driving force, is frustrated. With one man down (the Webmaster of a fan site), and an ex-band member currently on the frontline in Iraq, whats going on in the Middle East is less remote for him than for most. So, while supporting our troops, hes speaking out against the war, but feels his cries of protest on Filter's May 2008 album release Anthems For The Damned are lost on a nation that downloads everything and values little.
In 2002 General Motors ironically launched their gas-guzzling H2 to the sounds of Filters The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way). In 2003, to fuel a hunger for democracy and oil America invaded Iraq. With our government, economy, environment and music industry in crisis, Richard talks about how he reconciles his need to make a living with his own value system. But lets take care of the prerequisite business first:
Nicole Powers: You have The Pulse Sessions coming out later this year. Thats a live album right?
Richard Patrick: Yeah. Were going to do a live record thats recorded in the studio. Well just jump in a studio and set up our gear and play live.
NP: And later on youve got a remix album coming out?
RP: Yes, that looks like November 4th. Its going to be Remix For The Dammed.
NP: Have you got any favorite remixes youd like to talk about?
RP: Id say my favorite remix is by one of my original programmers, Rae DiLeo. Its one of his last parting things that hes going to be doing with us for a little while because hes going off and doing different things. John Spikers going to be the new sound design guy.
NP: In the early days you were known for combining electronica with rock, but Anthems is a very non-electronic, organic rock sound? Is that the direction youre going in musically?
RP: Actually the stuff Im writing right now for a record that Im going to release sometime next year is actually way more heavy industrial, more electronic. Theres probably not going to be that many live drums on it.
NP: So its back full circle to your early Nine Inch Nails days?
RP: Well, Nine Inch Nails was influenced by Skinny Puppy and Ministry But the reality is, yeah, I miss those old days. I feel that Filter needs to return to the Hey Man, Nice Shot era. I was a young angry man when I did that, and then I kind of went of into different worlds musically and I think Im coming full circle because now I just want to do heavier, darker music. I thought Anthems was darker, but I grow more and more frustrated with the state of affairs in the world and I think my music should reflect that kind of anger.
NP: Recently you did a Huffington Post. In one of the opening paragraphs you talk about your idols, Bono and John Lennon, and say they taught you to speak your mind. Do you get frustrated that more people dont?
RP: Neil Young even said it, back in the day, that rock and roll could change things. Rock and roll cant do anything anymore. Its true. I literally released an anti-war, pro-troops record and it was almost like falling upon deaf ears. Right now the audience seem like theyre OK with talking about bling and G5s and money, theyre totally happy with that. As a human being that lives on this little planet and knows how fragile the world is, I had to say something
People heard my record and they heard Im bitching about my commander-in-chief. Im bitching about things that need to be said. On every song on the record Im talking about issues and I have to say, I didnt want to just close my mouth and go OK, heres another song about love. Or heres another song about being hurt. I had to actually talk about some real facts.
NP: I love the lyrics of your song Lie After Lie. The lies were talking about arent little ones, and theres been so many of them, yet Obama and McCain are so close in the polls. How many lies will it take before people will see the writing on the wall?
RP: Well, this country, they voted a guy into office who they could have a beer with. Its like Bill Maher said, this country voted in a fucking retard because they wanted to be able to have a beer with him. And now look at us, were all fucking paying the price.
NP: Its almost like half of America is happy with their heads in the sand, and actually wants to be lied to so they can avoid the truth.
RP: Theres more talk about Palins eye-glasses and her naughty librarian hair cut the Democrats are talking about universal healthcare does anyone care about that? Most of my friends dont have fucking insurance. Now Ive turned forty, things go wrong in your body. I have an issue with my back all of a sudden. And I go to a doctor and I spend tens of thousands of dollars, but Im insured and Im, quote unquote, successful, and I do really well and so I have money
I like hanging out with young people, and they cant even afford medicine if they got sick. And the funny thing is you know theyre not spending any money on education. This country would rather spend a trillion dollars on a fucking war for oilWere pouring money into this thing, and yet where does the country stand on education? If you want a good one you have to spend your own money and put your kids in private school.
NP: Well I think part of it is that they want to keep the country dumb.
RP: Yes, exactly. They want kids in public school so theyre not educated, so they dont talk about stuff. I dont have my head in the sand. I live in a world where I wake up every day, if I feel like making some music I can. If I dont want to, I dont have to. So if I want to sit in front of three newspapers and three or four TiVoed news shows, PBS, Fox News, just trying to get a general viewpoint, I can sit around and I can watch show after show after show on TV about the environment being fucked up. Most people fucking get in a car and then they drive for two hours on the fucking freeways, then they get to a job and work their asses off and they come home and theyre exhausted. Then theyve got to hang out with their kids for a little while, and theyre in bed by nine o clock. Done. They dont have time to think. They dont have time to complain.
Ive woken up. I got sober like five years ago. Ive had all this time to sit back and watch what theyre doing. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, theyre oil men theyre fucking oil men. So what do they do? Need more oil. Invade country thats got oil. Now its their answer to the huge crisis, the gasoline shortage. Whats their huge answer? Drill! They want to drill in Alaska. Thats only going to affect our oil supplies at like 7 per cent. Where do we get the rest of it? We get it from fucking Saudi Arabia.
NP: I think the masses arent getting angry because its not affecting them enough. Its not like Vietnam where everyone had friends and loved ones that were being called up.
RP: People are being drafted...
NP: Thats what I wanted to talk to you about, because the cover of Anthems for the Damned, thats a pretty powerful statement. It features the dog tags and rifle of Justin Eyerly who ran one of your fan sites. I understand he signed up for the reserves to pay for college, got called up and died a couple of weeks after he was deployed. What do his family think of the cover?
RP: I talk to them once a year right around Thanksgiving, and I havent really talked to them about him. I know his friend Meghan Darney was so honored to supply the picture. She took the picture of the inverted rifle. But I have to call them and find out what they think. A friend of ours left a CD on his grave.
NP: And your former bass player, Frank Cavanagh, recently enlisted and is in Iraq right now. Did he share his reasons for enlisting with you?
RP: He comes from a military background. His brothers in the army, and his uncles were in the army, and his dad was in the army, and its like if youre at war you join the army in some families. He was thirty-five and he said I missed the cut-off age and I can never be in the army.And then they changed the cut-off age to thirty-seven, cause they need more troops, and he went in...Its a calling. Its something that you do in certain families. He just wanted to see it for himself, and Im dying to get back over there.
NP: You played a benefit concert for the troops in Kuwait in March of this year just before Frank shipped off to Iraq in April. How was that?
RP: Yes, I played the Operation MySpace concert with Disturbed, and DJ Z-Trip and Jessica Simpson, and it was amazing. Its a twenty-seven hour flight and Im sitting there and Im in Business Class looking downWhen youre flying over the United States its just a grid of lights. Even the smaller cities are well lit. Everything looks like its really neat, clean and taken care ofWhen you fly over Iraq its just dismal. Theres one naked little light down there
You land, and youre looking around and theres a row of thirty Black Hawk helicopters, and youre like wow, each one of those is worth forty million bucks. So you look at it and think thats a whole towns library its a fleet of librariesYou look over and see a guard tower and youre like wow, thats a bridge in Minnesota. Its astounding what we're wasting our money on there.
NP: Obviously you now drive a hybrid car, but in 2002 your song The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way) was used to promote the then new H2 vehicle. If you knew then what you know now, would you still have allowed that to happen?
RP: I probably would have allowed a lot more. I probably would have done that JC Penny commercial they asked me to do. Heres why: The music industry is under attack by theftIn this day and age, youve got to do whatever youve got to do. Humvee, yes. Someones going to use a song. If he doesnt use my song, hes going to use someone elses song. I want to put my kids through college. And the reality is, when people talk about selling out and stuff like that, its a whole different ball game when people are constantly ripping artists off constantly on the internet. The internet is a big, huge, evil thing. Its got a lot of good, but its got a lot of bad
People arent paying for music. So all this time, effort and money that we spent sitting in studios making music people arent paying for that. It's destroying the music industry. So when I saw Snoop Dogg selling Taco Bell I was like get it, get in there and get you some money. Do what you gotta do. Our industry has been anally raped in the last eight years by technology and by people who just dont get it. Theyre like Filter doesnt need any money, Im just going to download this off allmp3.com and get the thing for free. They just dont care. They dont know right from wrong anymore. So Humvee, thats how I make my living Thats how Im going to put my kids through school.
NP: Isnt there some implied endorsement though? I guess thats the other side of it, the responsibility and implied endorsement. Isnt there a danger there?
RP: Im not sure what youre asking.
NP: When someone hears a bands song promoting a product, theres an implied endorsement of that product.
RP: Yes. Or its just a song they use in the background. Its not an endorsement. Its just music. Hey Man, Nice Shot was in the Iron Man soundtrack. Do I endorse Iron Man the character? No. Its just music in the background
All that endorsement stuff, all thats off the table. I mean Ill endorse Barack Obama, and he could use my song, and stuff like that. I think Id be bummed out if McCain used my song.
NP: Would you sue like Jackson Browne?
RP: All these old guys have tons of money, they made money back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, you know what I mean. Its like rap artists. Rap artists get in there and they do everything. They sell their songs on the radio. Theyll sell their songs through beer commercials. Theyll put out a clothing line. They'll take their name and turn it into a brand, and divvy it up, and just make money. When a rock artist does it all of sudden its oh, hes endorsing, hes evil
Yeah, Humvee baby, H2, its a well designed machine. Yes, its an SUV. Its a car. Its a product. Do I endorse that? No. What I endorse is yes, you want some music, Ill give you some music. I dont sit around and hold up a sign outside of my house saying I want you to go buy an H3. Its not the same. Thats making a living.Its like a free bit of advertising for your band at this point in time. Its like I saw a commercial, I heard this really cool song, Im going to find that song. Cause MTVs not going to play your video.
NP: Commercials do work like radio these days. But you talk about branding and rap artists; I think its gone too far. It saddens me when you hear these guys aspiring to be a brand, because I think the artistry has to come first, and then if you can exploit it commercially thats great.
RP: Artistry does have to come first and you do have to be an artist at the same time, but the reality is everybodys on this planet to make a livingBack in the day during the grunge era we could sit there and say no to a lot of things, but you cant say no to those things anymore. You cant call up Reebok and tell them no, dont use my song, because, literally, if youre going to compete in a world with 900 channels on Direct TV. Theres room for 900 channels on Direct TV. Think of that. Think of the internet. You know its so funny because I keep doing these dot com magazines; I didnt even know half of them existed. There are so many dot comes out there. There are so many places a person can go, you have to say yes to a beer commercial.
Think of my music being used for an alcohol ad. I mean Im a recovering alcoholic, but in this day and age its like I cant be pissed at Bud Light for being Bud Light just because Im an alcoholic. People like to drink beer, and if theyre going to use my song and pay me a million dollars, then why not me as opposed to the other guy that doesnt give a fuck. I get what youre saying. Its a bit of a double-edged sword, but at the same time, take a look whats happening to the entertainment dollar.
NP: Its also a question of value. I mean people will think nothing of dropping twenty bucks on a meal out which takes fifteen minutes to prepare, but they wont pay twenty bucks for an album that maybe took two years to prepare.
RP: Exactly. Exactly. Thats my point. People are literally like, how can I get this for free on the internetThis is the Wild West at this point in time. Ive sold fifty thousand records this time, and because Im independent, Im actually doing better than when I was signed to a major. Its like youre living in opposite land. Im actually going to see more money from my independent record that sold fifty thousand copies, than my zillion selling major label record. My video cost less than twenty thousand dollars to make for Soldiers of Misfortune. My last video cost four hundred thousand dollars at a major.
NP: Ouch. Imagine recouping that.
RP: Im probably not going to go gold on Anthems, but Im going to make more money on Anthems. So, everythings off the table. Its a whole new world.
NP: The upside of the internet is that it takes the record labels out of the picture, and you now have a direct relationship with your fans.
RP: Yes. If I want to get online and tell three hundred thousand people that have signed up to a mailing list or whatever on OfficialFilter.com, I can do that. I guess to go back to that earlier statement when we were kind of talking about the SUV, it is a fine line, you do have to be careful as far as licensing your songs. But at the same time everybodys got to put their kids through school, and you just hope that you pick the right things to be a part of. Believe it or not, the H3 ads were award winning. That particular advertising campaign was pretty cool looking. It was pretty slick. Would I sell my song for a tampon commercial? I probably wouldnt. So it is a double-edged sword, and you do have to be careful, but you just have to hope that you make the right decision, and that your fans can deal witt those decisions. Thats my statement on that.
Filter kick-off a seven date mini tour in Reno, NV on September 17. Click HERE for more info.
In 2002 General Motors ironically launched their gas-guzzling H2 to the sounds of Filters The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way). In 2003, to fuel a hunger for democracy and oil America invaded Iraq. With our government, economy, environment and music industry in crisis, Richard talks about how he reconciles his need to make a living with his own value system. But lets take care of the prerequisite business first:
Nicole Powers: You have The Pulse Sessions coming out later this year. Thats a live album right?
Richard Patrick: Yeah. Were going to do a live record thats recorded in the studio. Well just jump in a studio and set up our gear and play live.
NP: And later on youve got a remix album coming out?
RP: Yes, that looks like November 4th. Its going to be Remix For The Dammed.
NP: Have you got any favorite remixes youd like to talk about?
RP: Id say my favorite remix is by one of my original programmers, Rae DiLeo. Its one of his last parting things that hes going to be doing with us for a little while because hes going off and doing different things. John Spikers going to be the new sound design guy.
NP: In the early days you were known for combining electronica with rock, but Anthems is a very non-electronic, organic rock sound? Is that the direction youre going in musically?
RP: Actually the stuff Im writing right now for a record that Im going to release sometime next year is actually way more heavy industrial, more electronic. Theres probably not going to be that many live drums on it.
NP: So its back full circle to your early Nine Inch Nails days?
RP: Well, Nine Inch Nails was influenced by Skinny Puppy and Ministry But the reality is, yeah, I miss those old days. I feel that Filter needs to return to the Hey Man, Nice Shot era. I was a young angry man when I did that, and then I kind of went of into different worlds musically and I think Im coming full circle because now I just want to do heavier, darker music. I thought Anthems was darker, but I grow more and more frustrated with the state of affairs in the world and I think my music should reflect that kind of anger.
NP: Recently you did a Huffington Post. In one of the opening paragraphs you talk about your idols, Bono and John Lennon, and say they taught you to speak your mind. Do you get frustrated that more people dont?
RP: Neil Young even said it, back in the day, that rock and roll could change things. Rock and roll cant do anything anymore. Its true. I literally released an anti-war, pro-troops record and it was almost like falling upon deaf ears. Right now the audience seem like theyre OK with talking about bling and G5s and money, theyre totally happy with that. As a human being that lives on this little planet and knows how fragile the world is, I had to say something
People heard my record and they heard Im bitching about my commander-in-chief. Im bitching about things that need to be said. On every song on the record Im talking about issues and I have to say, I didnt want to just close my mouth and go OK, heres another song about love. Or heres another song about being hurt. I had to actually talk about some real facts.
NP: I love the lyrics of your song Lie After Lie. The lies were talking about arent little ones, and theres been so many of them, yet Obama and McCain are so close in the polls. How many lies will it take before people will see the writing on the wall?
RP: Well, this country, they voted a guy into office who they could have a beer with. Its like Bill Maher said, this country voted in a fucking retard because they wanted to be able to have a beer with him. And now look at us, were all fucking paying the price.
NP: Its almost like half of America is happy with their heads in the sand, and actually wants to be lied to so they can avoid the truth.
RP: Theres more talk about Palins eye-glasses and her naughty librarian hair cut the Democrats are talking about universal healthcare does anyone care about that? Most of my friends dont have fucking insurance. Now Ive turned forty, things go wrong in your body. I have an issue with my back all of a sudden. And I go to a doctor and I spend tens of thousands of dollars, but Im insured and Im, quote unquote, successful, and I do really well and so I have money
I like hanging out with young people, and they cant even afford medicine if they got sick. And the funny thing is you know theyre not spending any money on education. This country would rather spend a trillion dollars on a fucking war for oilWere pouring money into this thing, and yet where does the country stand on education? If you want a good one you have to spend your own money and put your kids in private school.
NP: Well I think part of it is that they want to keep the country dumb.
RP: Yes, exactly. They want kids in public school so theyre not educated, so they dont talk about stuff. I dont have my head in the sand. I live in a world where I wake up every day, if I feel like making some music I can. If I dont want to, I dont have to. So if I want to sit in front of three newspapers and three or four TiVoed news shows, PBS, Fox News, just trying to get a general viewpoint, I can sit around and I can watch show after show after show on TV about the environment being fucked up. Most people fucking get in a car and then they drive for two hours on the fucking freeways, then they get to a job and work their asses off and they come home and theyre exhausted. Then theyve got to hang out with their kids for a little while, and theyre in bed by nine o clock. Done. They dont have time to think. They dont have time to complain.
Ive woken up. I got sober like five years ago. Ive had all this time to sit back and watch what theyre doing. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, theyre oil men theyre fucking oil men. So what do they do? Need more oil. Invade country thats got oil. Now its their answer to the huge crisis, the gasoline shortage. Whats their huge answer? Drill! They want to drill in Alaska. Thats only going to affect our oil supplies at like 7 per cent. Where do we get the rest of it? We get it from fucking Saudi Arabia.
NP: I think the masses arent getting angry because its not affecting them enough. Its not like Vietnam where everyone had friends and loved ones that were being called up.
RP: People are being drafted...
NP: Thats what I wanted to talk to you about, because the cover of Anthems for the Damned, thats a pretty powerful statement. It features the dog tags and rifle of Justin Eyerly who ran one of your fan sites. I understand he signed up for the reserves to pay for college, got called up and died a couple of weeks after he was deployed. What do his family think of the cover?
RP: I talk to them once a year right around Thanksgiving, and I havent really talked to them about him. I know his friend Meghan Darney was so honored to supply the picture. She took the picture of the inverted rifle. But I have to call them and find out what they think. A friend of ours left a CD on his grave.
NP: And your former bass player, Frank Cavanagh, recently enlisted and is in Iraq right now. Did he share his reasons for enlisting with you?
RP: He comes from a military background. His brothers in the army, and his uncles were in the army, and his dad was in the army, and its like if youre at war you join the army in some families. He was thirty-five and he said I missed the cut-off age and I can never be in the army.And then they changed the cut-off age to thirty-seven, cause they need more troops, and he went in...Its a calling. Its something that you do in certain families. He just wanted to see it for himself, and Im dying to get back over there.
NP: You played a benefit concert for the troops in Kuwait in March of this year just before Frank shipped off to Iraq in April. How was that?
RP: Yes, I played the Operation MySpace concert with Disturbed, and DJ Z-Trip and Jessica Simpson, and it was amazing. Its a twenty-seven hour flight and Im sitting there and Im in Business Class looking downWhen youre flying over the United States its just a grid of lights. Even the smaller cities are well lit. Everything looks like its really neat, clean and taken care ofWhen you fly over Iraq its just dismal. Theres one naked little light down there
You land, and youre looking around and theres a row of thirty Black Hawk helicopters, and youre like wow, each one of those is worth forty million bucks. So you look at it and think thats a whole towns library its a fleet of librariesYou look over and see a guard tower and youre like wow, thats a bridge in Minnesota. Its astounding what we're wasting our money on there.
NP: Obviously you now drive a hybrid car, but in 2002 your song The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way) was used to promote the then new H2 vehicle. If you knew then what you know now, would you still have allowed that to happen?
RP: I probably would have allowed a lot more. I probably would have done that JC Penny commercial they asked me to do. Heres why: The music industry is under attack by theftIn this day and age, youve got to do whatever youve got to do. Humvee, yes. Someones going to use a song. If he doesnt use my song, hes going to use someone elses song. I want to put my kids through college. And the reality is, when people talk about selling out and stuff like that, its a whole different ball game when people are constantly ripping artists off constantly on the internet. The internet is a big, huge, evil thing. Its got a lot of good, but its got a lot of bad
People arent paying for music. So all this time, effort and money that we spent sitting in studios making music people arent paying for that. It's destroying the music industry. So when I saw Snoop Dogg selling Taco Bell I was like get it, get in there and get you some money. Do what you gotta do. Our industry has been anally raped in the last eight years by technology and by people who just dont get it. Theyre like Filter doesnt need any money, Im just going to download this off allmp3.com and get the thing for free. They just dont care. They dont know right from wrong anymore. So Humvee, thats how I make my living Thats how Im going to put my kids through school.
NP: Isnt there some implied endorsement though? I guess thats the other side of it, the responsibility and implied endorsement. Isnt there a danger there?
RP: Im not sure what youre asking.
NP: When someone hears a bands song promoting a product, theres an implied endorsement of that product.
RP: Yes. Or its just a song they use in the background. Its not an endorsement. Its just music. Hey Man, Nice Shot was in the Iron Man soundtrack. Do I endorse Iron Man the character? No. Its just music in the background
All that endorsement stuff, all thats off the table. I mean Ill endorse Barack Obama, and he could use my song, and stuff like that. I think Id be bummed out if McCain used my song.
NP: Would you sue like Jackson Browne?
RP: All these old guys have tons of money, they made money back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, you know what I mean. Its like rap artists. Rap artists get in there and they do everything. They sell their songs on the radio. Theyll sell their songs through beer commercials. Theyll put out a clothing line. They'll take their name and turn it into a brand, and divvy it up, and just make money. When a rock artist does it all of sudden its oh, hes endorsing, hes evil
Yeah, Humvee baby, H2, its a well designed machine. Yes, its an SUV. Its a car. Its a product. Do I endorse that? No. What I endorse is yes, you want some music, Ill give you some music. I dont sit around and hold up a sign outside of my house saying I want you to go buy an H3. Its not the same. Thats making a living.Its like a free bit of advertising for your band at this point in time. Its like I saw a commercial, I heard this really cool song, Im going to find that song. Cause MTVs not going to play your video.
NP: Commercials do work like radio these days. But you talk about branding and rap artists; I think its gone too far. It saddens me when you hear these guys aspiring to be a brand, because I think the artistry has to come first, and then if you can exploit it commercially thats great.
RP: Artistry does have to come first and you do have to be an artist at the same time, but the reality is everybodys on this planet to make a livingBack in the day during the grunge era we could sit there and say no to a lot of things, but you cant say no to those things anymore. You cant call up Reebok and tell them no, dont use my song, because, literally, if youre going to compete in a world with 900 channels on Direct TV. Theres room for 900 channels on Direct TV. Think of that. Think of the internet. You know its so funny because I keep doing these dot com magazines; I didnt even know half of them existed. There are so many dot comes out there. There are so many places a person can go, you have to say yes to a beer commercial.
Think of my music being used for an alcohol ad. I mean Im a recovering alcoholic, but in this day and age its like I cant be pissed at Bud Light for being Bud Light just because Im an alcoholic. People like to drink beer, and if theyre going to use my song and pay me a million dollars, then why not me as opposed to the other guy that doesnt give a fuck. I get what youre saying. Its a bit of a double-edged sword, but at the same time, take a look whats happening to the entertainment dollar.
NP: Its also a question of value. I mean people will think nothing of dropping twenty bucks on a meal out which takes fifteen minutes to prepare, but they wont pay twenty bucks for an album that maybe took two years to prepare.
RP: Exactly. Exactly. Thats my point. People are literally like, how can I get this for free on the internetThis is the Wild West at this point in time. Ive sold fifty thousand records this time, and because Im independent, Im actually doing better than when I was signed to a major. Its like youre living in opposite land. Im actually going to see more money from my independent record that sold fifty thousand copies, than my zillion selling major label record. My video cost less than twenty thousand dollars to make for Soldiers of Misfortune. My last video cost four hundred thousand dollars at a major.
NP: Ouch. Imagine recouping that.
RP: Im probably not going to go gold on Anthems, but Im going to make more money on Anthems. So, everythings off the table. Its a whole new world.
NP: The upside of the internet is that it takes the record labels out of the picture, and you now have a direct relationship with your fans.
RP: Yes. If I want to get online and tell three hundred thousand people that have signed up to a mailing list or whatever on OfficialFilter.com, I can do that. I guess to go back to that earlier statement when we were kind of talking about the SUV, it is a fine line, you do have to be careful as far as licensing your songs. But at the same time everybodys got to put their kids through school, and you just hope that you pick the right things to be a part of. Believe it or not, the H3 ads were award winning. That particular advertising campaign was pretty cool looking. It was pretty slick. Would I sell my song for a tampon commercial? I probably wouldnt. So it is a double-edged sword, and you do have to be careful, but you just have to hope that you make the right decision, and that your fans can deal witt those decisions. Thats my statement on that.
Filter kick-off a seven date mini tour in Reno, NV on September 17. Click HERE for more info.
nicole_powers:
Richard Patrick, Filters (hybrid) driving force, is frustrated. With one man down (the Webmaster of a fan site), and an ex-band member currently on the frontline in Iraq, whats going on in the Middle East is less remote for him than for most. So, while supporting our troops, hes speaking out against...
bev_antain:
Great interview, Filter is definitely one of my favourite bands from the 90's and one of the few that didn't disappoint me with their comeback. Though I'm looking forward to the next step for this band, a return to the industrial rock sounds of Short Bus would be interesting.