"There are things in Scars that aren’t in System."
Taken from: Times Online
Our willingness to accept music under different names has provided new options for bands that might previously have been torn apart by creative differences. Scars on Broadway, the new group featuring Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan of the Grammy-winning metal band System of a Down, is a case in point.
“We took a break before we broke up,” admits Dolmayan, the drummer. “After 12 years, it’s not so much that you get tired of the people you’re with, it’s more that you don’t have an identity. I think System will co-exist with Scars. They will probably leapfrog each other.”
“I don’t know Jack White,” adds Malakian, the guitarist and songwriter, “but I like what he does in the White Stripes. I’ve only heard a couple of songs from the Raconteurs, but I liked that, too. As artists, we don’t want our music to be a brand like Coca-Cola. You want to scratch those creative itches: things that you couldn’t do in certain situations. There are things in Scars that aren’t in System. I love metal, but I was taking a new direction. I wanted to express the side of me that likes Roxy Music, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead.”
Now that having a second band is entirely acceptable, musicians are leaping on the opportunity to explore new avenues with new, and old, friends. But it’s an aside from Malakian that perhaps sheds the most light on this relatively new phenomenon. With record companies under more pressure than ever before, if profitable musicians want to release music under different names, labels are in no position to dissuade them.
“Columbia wanted the record, but they let us go out and shop it anyway,” Malakian explains. “And once we shopped it, we said, ‘Man, we don’t want to be on Columbia any more.’ Columbia don’t want to burn that bridge for when System returns, so they let us do what we want.”
Our willingness to accept music under different names has provided new options for bands that might previously have been torn apart by creative differences. Scars on Broadway, the new group featuring Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan of the Grammy-winning metal band System of a Down, is a case in point.
“We took a break before we broke up,” admits Dolmayan, the drummer. “After 12 years, it’s not so much that you get tired of the people you’re with, it’s more that you don’t have an identity. I think System will co-exist with Scars. They will probably leapfrog each other.”
“I don’t know Jack White,” adds Malakian, the guitarist and songwriter, “but I like what he does in the White Stripes. I’ve only heard a couple of songs from the Raconteurs, but I liked that, too. As artists, we don’t want our music to be a brand like Coca-Cola. You want to scratch those creative itches: things that you couldn’t do in certain situations. There are things in Scars that aren’t in System. I love metal, but I was taking a new direction. I wanted to express the side of me that likes Roxy Music, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead.”
Now that having a second band is entirely acceptable, musicians are leaping on the opportunity to explore new avenues with new, and old, friends. But it’s an aside from Malakian that perhaps sheds the most light on this relatively new phenomenon. With record companies under more pressure than ever before, if profitable musicians want to release music under different names, labels are in no position to dissuade them.
“Columbia wanted the record, but they let us go out and shop it anyway,” Malakian explains. “And once we shopped it, we said, ‘Man, we don’t want to be on Columbia any more.’ Columbia don’t want to burn that bridge for when System returns, so they let us do what we want.”
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