Serj Tankian – Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) (eBook) $2.99 Leave a comment
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An exhilarating, considerate, and superbly written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metallic band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian. |
Serj Tankian would be the first to confess that his band, System Of A Down, was an unlikely chart-topper. In spite of everything, as Serj concedes, “it isn’t simple listening.” Even so, there is no doubt that System’s music had struck a chord with tens of millions of listeners throughout the globe ever since they burst on the scene within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. With almost 40 million album gross sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, and a loyal legion of followers, the band dominated the alt-rock and metallic scenes simply because the world hurtled into a brand new millennium, redefining the very thought of what rockstars may and could not discuss, may and could not do, may and could not symbolize.
In Down With the System, Serj presents readers with a memoir that’s excess of only a rock ‘n’ roll fable. It is an immigrant’s story, it is an activist’s awakening, and it is a non secular journey from darkness towards gentle. And all of this comes right down to the truth that Serj himself has had the prospect to stay a unprecedented life—due to a mixture of luck, circumstance, battle, expertise, and non secular awakening.
Born to Armenian dad and mom in Beirut, Serj grows up listening to bombs drop exterior his childhood residence throughout the nation’s civil battle, earlier than transferring to Los Angeles on the age of seven. As a younger man, he’s immersed within the SoCal group of “Little Armenia,” studying increasingly more concerning the brutal genocide confronted by his ancestors whereas serving to his dad and mom adapt to the constraints and contradictions of the American Dream. Then, throughout a pivotal drive residence from an LSAT class, Serj decides to show away from a promising future in enterprise and legislation to make music as a substitute—a call that leads him to touring 5 continents because the lead singer of a vastly common rock band, hitting quantity #1 on the Billboard album charts the morning of 9/11, after which having the hit single from the identical album banned from radio two days later.
Within the years that comply with, his uniquely singular story continues, as he evades glass bottles hurled at a cancelled present by indignant Slayer followers, groups up with Tom Morello to push social justice causes on unsuspecting metalheads, argues with LAPD officers over the easiest way to quell rioting followers, and defines new sounds and singing techniques with Rick Rubin.
Braiding collectively Serj’s thought-provoking perception with heartfelt and poetic prose, Down With the System retraces Serj’s outstanding and unlikely journey, and explores what it is taught him—about music, about artwork, about activism, and about himself. It is an unforgettable experience that can go away you breathless—and an absolute delight for brand new followers and outdated ones alike.
