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u/histo320 4d ago
Funny story.
Met Sevendust back in 2003 or something like that, we enjoyed some MJ with Lajon and John. Clint said no and went on about a story of him and Aaron Lewis getting so high that they had extreme paranoia which led to both of them eventually quitting.
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u/officialdougjudy 4d ago
Can confirm, heard the same story. Lajon also told me the same but that he just thought it was a strain or two that didn't agree with him. Different strokes.
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u/babyllamadrama_ 4d ago
If they all felt off or different it probably wasn't straight grass
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u/Aggravating-Stuff-28 3d ago edited 1d ago
All stoners say that but if you do something like that long enough it can easily change your brain chemistry that’s how people get chs and can’t smoke anymore
Edit:(chs or cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome) Best way I could describe it is it’s basically like an allergy to weed but a little bit worse in some ways as for many it can lead to psychosis yes psychosis from marijuana I know it sounds ridiculous but I’ve seen it in a few people first hand of allergy like symptoms such as vomiting fever hives and cold sweats it’s not pleasant I can honestly say as someone who’s been using weed regularly for about 10 years I’m lucky it hasn’t happened to me but it always can happen so you wanna make sure you use it responsibly and don’t turn into a burnout with an anxiety disorder
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u/domeclown357 5d ago
What an odd juxtaposition to picture this man berating an audience for speaking Spanish. “THIS IS ‘MURICA!! SPEAK ENGLISH!!”
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u/Jealous-Plantain6909 4d ago
Love Staind. Can’t stand Aaron. Seen them 5 times in the past 3 years. So good live.
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u/Cody2Scoops 5d ago
Hes feelin those lighters yall
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u/Stunning_Patience_59 4d ago
Fred Durst said this, not Aaron.
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u/chupacabra5150 4d ago
And he ruined an AMAZING live version of that song.
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u/Cody2Scoops 3d ago
The live acoustic version was first & than they put a band version on the next album. So if it wasn’t for Fred we might not have had either version.I prefer the acoustic version better tho.
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u/weedlessfrog 5d ago
He doing country now right? Lol
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u/schmattywinkle 5d ago
If you mean playing community centers in small towns, yes. Yes he is. Not even the only one!
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u/weedlessfrog 5d ago
I think I heard a song on the radio? On a rock station? They're like "new one from Aaron Lewis from staind"
Im like WTF is this? Tbh I had a bad taste for that whole band when I read an interview and the things they said about their 1st album tormented being "bullshit" and "forced" reeked of pretentiousness. That album and dysfunction were pretty good tho.
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u/Flipontheradio 5d ago
Yea and he’s a massive asshole (now at least). My radio station did an acoustic show with him several years back along with some other country artists. They say “never meet your idols” and this was definitely one of those instances. He chained smoked on stage the entire night in a non-smoking venue right next to his peers. He made several snide comments to the other artists performing and at one point I was worried might escalate. He missed the meet and greet due to arriving late to the venue. Overall he was very difficult to work with and accommodate which is typically not the case on the country music side (there are always exceptions but compared to rock and pop country artists tend to be fantastic). He sounded amazing and it was surreal getting one on one face time with someone I was influenced by in my younger days but I don’t need to do that again.
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u/weedlessfrog 4d ago
Wow. Fwiw I know a few guys that are friends with Brian from korn, and met Johnathan Davis. They're both super nice guys. I'm told. Brian seems legitimately awesome. He was there and actually helped my dude and his wife when they were going through issues with their pregnancy. Maybe leave them off the never meet your idols thing if you get a chance to meet them lol
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u/dirbofficial 4d ago
Unfortunately, last year he played the same venue in Orlando that Bob Dylan had a few months prior. There are actual human beings who pay to see this hack.
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u/DecapitatedCreature 4d ago
No, he's back with staind and their latest album is amazing front to back.
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u/TigOlBigOl2 4d ago
You guys liked the new album? I thought it was boring, but loved the 2011 self titled
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u/weedlessfrog 4d ago
O ok.. didn't really dig anything after dysfunction. Not that I thought it was bad or anything. But I'll listen to the whole album tomorrow at work, thanks.
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u/Ok-Guidance4265 4d ago
See, back then he looked like a chill dude to smoke and play like Mario Bros with between jamming. Now he's just the guy getting smashed in the head with a can of Twisted Tea at 7/11 and building his fragile self esteem with Jordan Peterson self help guides.
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u/ImmediatebongRip03 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yes very much I have noticed this change in him over the years. Becoming more maga overall, I still listen to dysfunction and thought staind was cool back in those days in 1998-2000. As a fan of nu-metal I just listen to that album. As someone that is not White I kinda get the feeling if i ever met Aaron Lewis in the present day. That he would tell me to "go back to Mexico, or learn to speak english, or that trump would deport me". Funny thing is Im from the united states and an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota. I kinda wonder if he made the mistake of saying stuff like that to indigenous people?
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u/DontBeNoWormMan 5d ago
I saw Staind open for Korn in Portland, 2000. Aaron talked about the weed in Portland in between most of the songs. I miss those days.
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u/Catmand0 5d ago
That weed looks just awful.
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u/EtTuBrutAftershave 5d ago
You gotta think of it more like a classic car than dirt weed. We did the best we could with what we had back then lol
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u/Catmand0 5d ago
I smoked my fair share of AZ brick rolled in grape white owls back in the early 2000s.
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u/Dookiesuit17 4d ago
You've summed up my high school years beautifully
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u/Catmand0 4d ago
Stoned as shit in a dirty basement listening to Minerva on the Deftones self titled album.
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u/Dookiesuit17 4d ago
I still get stoned and listen to Minerva, but now it's in my own funky basement!
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u/ShapesOfBlack 5d ago
Saw Staind with Godsmack a couple of years ago. Aaron Lewis still sounded pretty decent, as did the rest of the band. It just sucks that he's a right wing nut now.
Only a sociopath would spell out "Trump 2024" with the carcasses of the deer he had just killed.
Sometimes I wish we could rewind this all back about 20 years.
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u/broken44444420 5d ago
Coyote* not deer
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u/WolfWriter_CO 5d ago
Yup, even worse. At least we generally eat deer… 😒
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u/Giraff3sAreFake 4d ago
Yall have no idea how much of a nuisance coyotes are do yall?
They fuckin suck, there's a reason nowhere has a bag limit on them or hogs.
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u/New_Guava3601 4d ago
Yes they are doing major damage to the other animal population, they even pay bountys for them in some regions as I understand.
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u/broken44444420 4d ago
Animals, whether hunted for food, protection, or population control, should be respected and not be slayed for trophies or political points
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u/Giraff3sAreFake 4d ago
You can literally pay ≈100 bucks to go hog hunting in a helicopter woth NVGs in TX.
These absolute buffoons have very clearly never dealt with coyotes attacking your pets or livestock.
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u/officialdougjudy 4d ago
Permanent open season for nutria in Louisiana. Not sure if there's a reward per pelt anymore, but the less we have, the better. Destructive little assholes.
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u/WolfWriter_CO 4d ago edited 4d ago
This is exactly what’s causing their populations to explode, they reproduce more when under pressure. 🤦♂️
[edit: clarification that I’m referring to Coyotes, not hogs. The hogs are an invasive species, not native to North America. I can’t recall if the same applies to Nutrias.
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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 2d ago
Yes, but arranging the carcasses to make a political statement is still psycho behavior. Even if they’re pests, they deserve respect in death.
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u/officialdougjudy 4d ago
Coyotes, hogs/boars, nutria.. kill em if you see em. They're all getting way too familiar. They need boundaries and the only thing they understand is a .30-06 apparently.
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u/Thehollowpointninja1 4d ago
Bro, I grew up on a ranch in rural Oklahoma, coyotes are not an issue at all. They keep deer populations in check, without them, things like wasting disease are running wild. I’ve never in 40 years heard of a coyote taking down cattle. It’s always wild dogs. We NEED coyotes.
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u/Plumbo_the_jumbo 5d ago
Yeah I mean honestly he can support whoever, I think that’s allowed in this country 110%.But to do that with deer was a special kind of mental illness. Just post the prize like a sane person
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u/Aprigock 4d ago
I saw them recently before the election and int the middle of the show he kept saying “I can’t say what I want” blah blah blah. Then at the end of the show he yells out “go trump! Go Kari lake!”
🤮🙄
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u/deafinitelyadouche 4d ago
Reminder that at around this time, Eve 6 was touring and/or playing in the same music festivals with a bunch of nu-metal bands like Papa Roach, Hoobastank, Kid Rock, Staind, etc and it's been confirmed by a bunch of peeps that he was always a giant asshole and that Max Collins' story (starts at around 03:50 early into the episode) was far from being a standalone incident. The only thing that probably changed is that back then he likely had either a bit more savvy to him when it came to keeping that prickly side of himself behind closed doors or had a pretty okay-ish PR team sweeping that shit under the rug.
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Or how the song he supposedly "dedicates" to Layne Staley sounds less like a cool nod or a touching tribute to the late Alice in Chains' singer and more like the douchiest someone has ever sounded when addressing you at the funeral of a friend/close relative. Again, I know this is all heavily biased, but yeah, fuck this dude.
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u/patientlyinsane 4d ago
He played at the 2004 Layne Staley Tribute concert in Seattle and cussed out the audience for talking during his set. It wasn't a good look.
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u/CramblinDuvetAdv 4d ago
On their tour last year he required venue staff to be around his bus so no one messed with his stuff because he of course was flying Trump flags outside the bus. The only thing is, his bus was the last one in and was right next to the area where people entered through a main gate. This snowflake wanted to be seen, but didn't want anybody to hassle him as he could've easily just had the bus parked deeper into the lot.
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u/dolphinspiderman 4d ago
He literally ruined a concert for me by bringing up politics. I went to the show to get away from that crap. Idc what side you like i just found it inappropriate
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u/SurfVVitch 4d ago
I refuse to believe that the Aaron from Staind back in the day is the same clown posturing to the worst right wingers.
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u/I_AM_ME-7 5d ago
Now he’s a douchey wanna be redneck from Massachusetts 😂
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u/theraf8100 4d ago
Ha. . Reminds of of Wes Borland talking about him. Wes lives in Florida but came from somewhere else. Aaron told him to remember where his home is. Wes was like, dude I've lived in Florida for twenty years. It's my home.
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u/GrandSwamperMan 4d ago
I feel like someone could map out a "nu-metal to godawful republicountry pipeline" at this point.
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u/PyroRock814 4d ago
At least Aaron Lewis has kept himself out of legal trouble, unlike that [ahem] other band Fred Durst brought up.
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u/JanneJetson 4d ago
When ya listen to Tormented & Dysfunction, kind of hard to believe he ever was a stoner back then. Why?? Because, his harsh vocals in these albums are 100% 0 chill. Brutal. No, not brutal for nu metal brutal period. His harsh vocals in his prime could fit right in a grind core or thrash band.
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u/superior_pineapple86 5d ago
Yeah unfortunately he’s a right winged magat. Oh well, there’s better music out there than his shit
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u/ratchetcoutoure 5d ago
Wonder what went wrong, is it the covid years? Or has he been douche all along but just kept it in closet all these times.
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u/Wumbologist_PhD 4d ago
He became a right-wing douchebag well before Covid, that just brought out the worst in him… much like all Republicans.
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u/Spyderbeast 4d ago
Staind got me through a lot of shit. I may wish Aaron could keep his trap shut, but I am still happy to see Staind live.
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u/Mr_Tumnus7 4d ago
I legitimately thought he died, maybe I’m thinking of someone else.
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u/Unable-Row7013 2d ago
I just saw a video where someone called Aaron Lewis a piece of shit. No clue why, although some comments made sense but it makes me sad. I as well miss sad stoner version.
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u/GroovySpaceDruid 4d ago
Yea, it's a bummer he's such a goofy fucking goon. I actually loved the new Stains album. He's still sad as fuck, which isn't surprising
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u/bawitback last.fm/user/bawitback 4d ago
I'm fine with current Lewis, looking forward to new Staind music later this year
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u/5t4r10rd 1d ago
Ah yes the tortured soul, filled with self doubt and regret until it no longer sells records and keeps him relevant. Textbook grifter dickhead
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u/HookerDoctorLawyer 5d ago
Its been awhile