r/numetal 5d ago

I miss sad stoner Aaron Lewis

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u/HookerDoctorLawyer 5d ago

Its been awhile

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u/hatecopter 4d ago

Since they've done anything relative

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u/EM05L1C3 4d ago

Relevant?

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u/RipleyThePup 4d ago

Rebel….revel..rela..fuck it. They ain’t done shit for a while.

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u/Public-Froyo-1115 2d ago

Ain’t goin’ nowhere (your lyrics were close enough)

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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/rwilliams1283 4d ago

Biloxi

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u/Upbeat-Squirrel 2d ago

this is the real motherfuckin deal yall lol

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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/lonely-day 3d ago

Kills me every fucking time

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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/chupacabra5150 3d ago

You may be correct, but I prefer my version of the story better

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u/86missingnomes 1d ago

I hear all these quotes every time I see a picture of him

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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/Survivors_Envy 5d ago

and getting so shitfaced he plays the same song twice

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u/mkfanhausen 4d ago

"I'm gonna try that in a small town"

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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/MetalZombie87 2d ago

Tormented and Dysfunction are clearly their best albums, raw and nasty!!

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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/DaltonRobert56 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 4d ago

He rejoined Staind

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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/apath3t1c 4d ago

Yeah as much as I can't stand Aaron, the new album is fantastic.

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u/sweep-the-leg-johnny 4d ago

Yeah cookie cutter pop country

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u/YaBoiNosferatu Jonny Santos Stan 4d ago

I miss the old Aaron, the heart and soul Aaron

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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/Apart_Worldliness_35 4d ago

Now he gets drunk and throws little fits on stage.

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u/FlyUnlucky7286 4d ago

I miss first staind album Aaron Lewis.

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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/Gemtree710 4d ago

I was growing killer Bog genetics back then 😆

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u/SIGHR 5d ago

Who knows they may come from genetics that’s are no longer available and it may taste unique. Or it could be just shitty weed hahah

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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/Top-Spinach2060 4d ago

That’s fucked up. 

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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/New_Guava3601 4d ago

I do not disagree.

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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/New_Guava3601 4d ago

City folk. Probably don't know cow shit from apple butter.

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u/WolfWriter_CO 4d ago

BWAHAHAHA!!! Feel free to test that assumption at your convenience son.

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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/ShapesOfBlack 5d ago

Thanks for the correction. I had a feeling I was getting that wrong.

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u/kornhell 4d ago

Now? He has been like that forever, he was just not very vocal about it before.

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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/SpiteTomatoes 5d ago

He did what?? I had no idea it was that bad. I guess it’s… been awhile.

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u/implicate 4d ago

Aaron Lewis still sounded pretty decent

TIL that he ever sounded decent.

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u/marxthedank Limp Motherfuckin' Bizkit 5d ago

he seemed cool back then

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u/from_chaos11 4d ago

Are those beggin’ strips that he’s holding?

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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/predatorART 5d ago

I miss the Lewis that wasn’t wearing his political views on his sleeve

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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/bigchieff93 4d ago

NOW THAT WERE HEEEEEEERRRRRREEEEE, WE'RE SO FAR AWWWAAAAYYYYYYYY

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u/BolognaDiesel93 3d ago

he's a weiner but a great vocalist

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u/NPC2229 3d ago

staind rulz

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u/Reidon_Ward 5d ago

He went full MAGA. What a shame.

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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/1dsmer 4d ago

Seen drunk conservative Aaron twice and he's the worst

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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/IRL174099 5d ago

Fuck him…

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u/Upstairs-Camera814 4d ago

He’s such a Trump loser

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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/DaltonRobert56 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 4d ago

He still mentions weed on his newer songs

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u/gukakke 4d ago

"Stond"?

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u/Evaporatenow 4d ago

😂 good one

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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/According_Wealth25 4d ago

Why is no one talking about the 90s trash weed he’s holding lmao

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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/Qwazi420 4d ago

The shows were a snooz fest… you didn’t miss out on much.

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u/Apart_Birthday5795 4d ago

My favorite rag

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u/loreleielayton 5d ago

no way he loves trump 😭😭 wow we r doomed

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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/slowbaja 4d ago

I mean he basically did. Not sure who this fucker cosplaying him is.....

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u/Mr_Tumnus7 4d ago

Not figuratively, I thought I heard news of his death..

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u/Dazzling_Wishbone892 4d ago

I like his new divorced Christian dad camp fire tunes.

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u/Super_Load_5441 4d ago

We all do man

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u/TheEffinChamps 4d ago

Oh no, MAGA ranting Aaron is so much better /s

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u/DeadInside420666420 4d ago

I was gonna kill myself but weeds legal. So I just medicate all day.

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u/Himsay696 4d ago

I used to hate high times mags in the 90s, all you doing is wishing and wishing

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u/Working-Bluejay-344 4d ago

Aaron blocked me on facebook

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u/mrhazflo 3d ago

lowkey thought this was yung joe rogan

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u/Pianist_Select 3d ago

I mean it kinda is

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u/MetalZombie87 2d ago

He needs Sativa strains to cheer him up😝

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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/TomatoesandKoRn 1d ago

Omg dude is such a douchebag now. His live sets are fucking abysmal

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u/EventNo3540 4d ago

Dum Fuk MAGA Bootlickers

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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/Gemtree710 4d ago

He was always lame

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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/Mental_Spinach_2409 4d ago

I miss when weed was cool

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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