+TheCrazyCanuck420 I've never heard the other band members but Sully's voice. But I think I've heard Robbie's voice more and I don't think he has a Boston accent as much as Sully has.
"The band has never supported war, but we support the men and woman of the U.S. armed forces and what they do for us, so that we can do what we do." perfectly said.
Good interview! I remember Sully when he worked in a Lawrence,Ma. restaurant,,The Roma! The band hit the lottery and we can only wish them well! He's from my hometown so we support them and dig the music!
Great guy, thanks for your support Sully! US Navy Veteran (1994-2004) I saw Godsmack in Norfolk Va in 1998 at a little place that held maybe 150 people called the Boathouse!
Sully lookin' like Ed Norton mixed with CM Punk these days...he still looks good though for a band that I used to listen in high school. Godsmack is early 2000s nostalgia, which is kind of crazy.
I thought he looked somewhat similar to that main dude in Grey's Anatomy.. never watched the show.. but the main male character.. at least I think he was THE main male character.
Just want to say I love Godsmack's music.I'm 74 and love music of all kinds, but no other band reaches in my soul like Godsmack I will be taking your music to the other side with me. thanks Sully you are a Godsend. peace
That's cool I'm 62 and I like them. I think I'm going to get the sheet music to play those solo songs he played with the cello on my piano sounds pretty good
Well said about religion sully. Treat others the way u want to be treated. Godsmack will always kick ass😎 all the hard work paid off. Such a talented group. Luv ya!!!
Been following G-Smack since very first show and in fact long before. Sully was drummer in a local band called Meliah Rage long before Godsmack was born. I've met Sully multiple times over the many decades, and he was always a good dude. We all have mutual friends in music. Godsmack will always be synonymous with the New England music scene.
Do any of yall have that great memory of hearing Godsmack for the first time? I remember being 17 going to taco bell in my brothers mustang and he started blasting the first album at top volume and that memory is branded into my matrix
CLuv Fuck yeah; my dad had the radio on and Godsmack was playing. Dad cranked up the volume and started headbanging. My brother and I followed suit and have been huge fans ever since. 🤘
I remember when I herd them for the first time when I was 12. I was in my brothers impala and he turned them on. I instantly feel in love. I have loved and listened for 9 years so far. Even got my little cousin into them. I hope they were coming to Indianapolis instead of evansville so I could see them live.
My older sister got me into GS when I was like 10 or 11 (I'm 27 now) I would go to her bedroom and we'd hangout and play games and watch TV, and she would put on GS CDs and we'd just jam out together. and I been listening to them ever since 😁
I remember seeing TV commercials for Godsmack's debut album. I was like who the fuck are these guys? But I dug the music, and they have been one of the greatest live bands I have ever seen. Just a great band.
@@seaangelable Yeah that concert was like2008(9)? and must have been altercation backstage with Nikki (Crue?)because Sully made remark onstage about Dr.Feelgood over 20 years ago and said "you got your coke sniffers over here and your pot smokers over here yeah whatever"and proceeded to rock Walnut Creek amphitheatre better than any band I've seen thete.
I met the whole band back in 2004. Was waking up one morning with the radio on and it said Godsmack would be signing autographs for three hours at a specific music store. I was like the 20th person in line. Shook Robbie Merrill's (bassist) hand and showed both Sully and Shannon a pic of my drum kit. Sully jokingly said, "You gotta get rid of those Zildjians, man" (both he and Shannon play Sabian). Had them all sign their Faceless album.
Mario Balindan - it is a small tattoo but def would be noticeable....it is under his right eye on the cheekbone.... You can see clearly he does not have it here.....weird
I need to say thank you to Sully if nobody ever tells you that music doesn't save lives awake same to me and my daughter's life so thank you and keep rocking on
Exactly! And is a refreshment for the ear, especially from someone with fame. I guess that’s what happens when you reach success through your own efforts and hard work - makes you stay true to yourself (if you read Sully Erna’s book “The Paths We Choose” - you’ll see what a long journey it was to forming Godsmack)
Fact or Fiction : Godsmack performed a "10th Anniversary" advertising campaign for an open air show in Sturgis, SD ... claiming such things as some 15 or more HD cameras filming the event. To this day, the associated dvd has yet to surface. (Any REAL reason for this?)
Craziest show I ever seen was Godsmack at Ozzfest 2000 in Phoenix Arizona. They played one song and said we were a bunch of pussies compared to the crowd in Albuquerque. The rest of the show was pure chaos. Fires lit, mosh pit raging, a security guard got his ear ripped off, it was insane. Been to Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura, Soulfly, Morbid Angle, Behemoth, Anthrax, Slipknot , none of them even come close to Godsmack that night!
So they just "came up" with godsmack for their band name? Its not based off a song of the same name from another band they say is one of their primary influences?
Well I'll do like the way they talk about God and sinning and things like that it's like he recognizes it anyway. but found out today that Chevelle has been around a while, their name means something about God and taking a vow, its pretty good stuff check it out
LOL I was looking at Sully's nose and I suddenly thought of the Leo character in the game 'A Way Out'. XD > awayout.wikia.com/wiki/Leo_Carus Something else interesting is that the actor who voiced him also kind of looks alike. For some reason he's also pictured playing in a band, but he's actually an actor. But anyway...
FACT: the group of people walking into the church in the beginning of the Godsmack Voodoo video are a REAL coven, led by the lady you see in the front, with white hair. her name is Laurie Cabot. she's the Official Witch of Salem and she just happens to be Sully's Aunt. so of course, he's Wiccan! 🙆🏼♀️
generally: can you make such videos with storys about songs??? Only if the artist want talk about it. To Godsmack nice band and Erna sing "nothing else matters" better than metallica, really nice cover.
I like some Godsmack songs. Sully Erna is intelligent, charismatic, musically gifted, and fun yet smart in some ways. Though, I will say America's troops are usually working class Americans who sell their souls to the military because they don't have money to live properly. America has extreme wealth inequality caused by very rich tyrants who enslave working class Americans. It has always been a tyrannical country founded by upper-class white men who stole natives' lands. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy were assassinated by the C.I.A. The C.I.A. targetted black people more than white people for MK Ultra. The C.I.A. started political coups to destroy progressive countries for creating unethical sweatshops and child slavery overseas. America started to become a third world country with indoctrination institutions disguised as broken education systems, rotting infrastructure, dirty water, unhealthy food, floods, droughts, increasingly limited jobs, wage slavery, etc. because its true rulers have extorted so much wealth and resources from most people while making our world burn. So, the American military is not controlled by people who give a shit about making the world be a better place for everyone. It's controlled by Wall Street monsters who don't know the meaning of justice and compassion. They only created the women's liberation movement in America to tax women, break family units, and indoctrinate children away from ethics, morals, mathematical literacy, scientific literacy, etc. They don't want working class children being critical thinkers. They want indoctrinated soldiers who make very rich men wealthier than most people. America's military insults Martin Luther King, Jr's antiwar legacy.
I need a part 3,4 and 5 I’m lovin’ this interview
Me too
Me three let's keep this going
I concur
that would be awesome but i think loudwire only posted 2 parts to their TH-cam channel which is a bummer
Huge fan of Sully and Godsmack. Thanks Loudwire for interviewing Sully. Enjoyed his segment.
Sully's a pretty cool dude, you really don't see that much of him but he look's fucking great for godsmack bein around for 20 years.
I agree. I love his hair when he died it blonde in straight out of line video. And I just love his his musical pieces with the piano
Sully Erna's speaking voice is so amazing, just like David Coverdale from whitesnake.
The Boston accent is strong in this one :) I didn't realize they were from Mass until I watched this.
+TheCrazyCanuck420 I've never heard the other band members but Sully's voice. But I think I've heard Robbie's voice more and I don't think he has a Boston accent as much as Sully has.
Shannon larkin is from Carlisle pa
Not much of a Godsmack fan then....
I heard him talk at Woodstock 99 & thought he was Australian or Irish.
Re-align is my favorite Godsmack song!
From NOLA, we love you, you are very welcomed here!
Probably one of the most level headed rock artists ever!!!!
True
Sully is such a class act and one of the most genuine people on earth.
"The band has never supported war, but we support the men and woman of the U.S. armed forces and what they do for us, so that we can do what we do." perfectly said.
Love Sully,his voice,and the of course the band as they are! Fantastic music!
The swimming pool story had me on the floor laughing. 😂
I'd get a beer with him. I don't even like beer.
I just want to hear all his stories ever. That's all.
He's by far my favorite musician of all time. Been following him since Godsmack began. One of the coolest guys you'd ever talk to also
Not sure if it was this interview or another, but sully said he hates metal but isn't his band a metal band? I'm confused.
+Bill Gates I've heard that the band identifies as hard rock, not metal.
@@kekistani1572 well I really enjoy his lyrics and his music that he's playing the piano with and stuff that doesn't sound metal at all
@@SerunaXI that's right tell him
Good interview! I remember Sully when he worked in a Lawrence,Ma. restaurant,,The Roma! The band hit the lottery and we can only wish them well! He's from my hometown so we support them and dig the music!
nothing but respect for this man and his talents
thank u sully flr all u do
rock on!
It's kind of disturbing that the armed forces used 'Sick of Life' for recruiting.
+Ryan Johnson Awake sounded better for that matter!
+Ryan Johnson I just came here to comment that and it's the top comment
Ryan Johnson what do you think a lot of veterans are? They go through that a lot of them kill themselves. It’s dark and sad but true.
Ryan Johnson but I do agree with that. Speaking of disturbing has ‘Indestructible’ by Disturbed ever been used for that?
I have to agree with you, very off kilter to pick that song
Great guy, thanks for your support Sully! US Navy Veteran (1994-2004) I saw Godsmack in Norfolk Va in 1998 at a little place that held maybe 150 people called the Boathouse!
Cool I bet that was a good inspiration for yall
Thank you for your service!!
Sully lookin' like Ed Norton mixed with CM Punk these days...he still looks good though for a band that I used to listen in high school. Godsmack is early 2000s nostalgia, which is kind of crazy.
I thought he looked somewhat similar to that main dude in Grey's Anatomy.. never watched the show.. but the main male character.. at least I think he was THE main male character.
I love Godsmack’s song Bulletproof. One of my favorite songs of all time.
That whole album surprised me with its quality!
Graceclaw Yeah its so good.
Just want to say I love Godsmack's music.I'm 74 and love music of all kinds, but no other band reaches in my soul like Godsmack I will be taking your music to the other side with me. thanks Sully you are a Godsend. peace
That's cool I'm 62 and I like them. I think I'm going to get the sheet music to play those solo songs he played with the cello on my piano sounds pretty good
I'd like to intern at Loudwire, interview a bunch of metalheads and talk. Seems like a cool gig.
Penguin619 I could dig it, would be a fun gig, no doubt
@Nick R Shut the fuck up.
You would be getting coffee and fixing the fax machine bruh
All I can say, is the more I hear and see this amazing man the more I love and admire this totally awesome Man!
yeah me too, Sully's huge in my heart ♡
Well said about religion sully. Treat others the way u want to be treated. Godsmack will always kick ass😎 all the hard work paid off. Such a talented group. Luv ya!!!
Those last words about religion should be in the Bill of Rights.
What is that what do you mean?
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Been following G-Smack since very first show and in fact long before. Sully was drummer in a local band called Meliah Rage long before Godsmack was born. I've met Sully multiple times over the many decades, and he was always a good dude. We all have mutual friends in music. Godsmack will always be synonymous with the New England music scene.
I saw these guys at Musikfest in August 2017. Best fucking show ever.
Do any of yall have that great memory of hearing Godsmack for the first time? I remember being 17 going to taco bell in my brothers mustang and he started blasting the first album at top volume and that memory is branded into my matrix
CLuv Fuck yeah; my dad had the radio on and Godsmack was playing. Dad cranked up the volume and started headbanging. My brother and I followed suit and have been huge fans ever since. 🤘
I remember when I herd them for the first time when I was 12. I was in my brothers impala and he turned them on. I instantly feel in love. I have loved and listened for 9 years so far. Even got my little cousin into them. I hope they were coming to Indianapolis instead of evansville so I could see them live.
My older sister got me into GS when I was like 10 or 11 (I'm 27 now) I would go to her bedroom and we'd hangout and play games and watch TV, and she would put on GS CDs and we'd just jam out together. and I been listening to them ever since 😁
Yeah I remember the beginning of Godsmack
Yeah they were cool sounding even from the the beginning
Thanks for the cool memories
Sounds like he's got his game together knowing what he wants out of life and going for it in a huge way👍😎
He reminds me of Jennifer Aniston. They have the same facial expressions.
+LeifTheOldSoul IN A REALLY WEIRD WAY I SEE WHERE YOU CAN THINK THIS
+LeifTheOldSoul More or less as I imagine both of them, you're right LOL.
They are both aquarius
I see it, too 😂
But he also kinda looks like Ringo Starr, lol
And they don’t age
That last part, Yes! Thank you Sully, well said ❤
I love his eyes
I love how he handled the whole interview!❤
I remember seeing TV commercials for Godsmack's debut album. I was like who the fuck are these guys? But I dug the music, and they have been one of the greatest live bands I have ever seen. Just a great band.
Acid001 to this day they are the best live band ive ever seen.
Saw Godsmack in Raleigh on Cruefest 2 and blew Motley off the stage IMO.
Yeah me too but I really like them
@@thomasbailey3511 wow I'm from Raleigh I would have loved to seen that
@@seaangelable Yeah that concert was like2008(9)? and must have been altercation backstage with Nikki (Crue?)because Sully made remark onstage about Dr.Feelgood over 20 years ago and said "you got your coke sniffers over here and your pot smokers over here yeah whatever"and proceeded to rock Walnut Creek amphitheatre better than any band I've seen thete.
If I didn’t know he had Italian roots... you can’t fake it. He looks sooooo Italian !
sully seems to have a great attitude towards life good for him
Voodoo was the theme song for a MTV show Fear.
i love this interview so much gimme more
I met the whole band back in 2004. Was waking up one morning with the radio on and it said Godsmack would be signing autographs for three hours at a specific music store. I was like the 20th person in line. Shook Robbie Merrill's (bassist) hand and showed both Sully and Shannon a pic of my drum kit. Sully jokingly said, "You gotta get rid of those Zildjians, man" (both he and Shannon play Sabian). Had them all sign their Faceless album.
Wow that would be really cool
Wait a minute. I remember Sully having a tattoo of a star or something on his cheek...
It's just a small tatoo you only see that if you look closer
Mario Balindan - it is a small tattoo but def would be noticeable....it is under his right eye on the cheekbone....
You can see clearly he does not have it here.....weird
@@tes420 you should investigate pal, maybe he's not the Sully that we knew, you know like Paul Mc Cartney some say's he's already dead
Mario Balindan - or he simply just had it removed lol
@@tes420 I believe he had it removed.
what he said at the end is perfect
He's such a handsome man I would love to meet him...
Yeah check out his song where he dyed his hair blond and he sang that song straight out of line he's so cute in that video
Never heard sick of life in navy commercial but Heard awake many times in the commercial
Did anyone else catch themselves telling Sully to take a breath? The longer he talked the bigger that vein got.
the veins are sexy
Oh my fucking god i didn't notice that. That's fucking hilarious.
I cant unsee it now lol. The dudes got a Corey Taylor sized neck!
Очень люблю творчество Godsmack и Салли Эрна. У него завтра день рождения! Здоровья вам ребята и ещё долго радовать нас своим творчеством!!!
I need to say thank you to Sully if nobody ever tells you that music doesn't save lives awake same to me and my daughter's life so thank you and keep rocking on
I love his laugh
Sitting to coffee and bullshit about music, life and magic is now on my bucket list. He is one really cool dude.
man .. sully erna is such a for real dude,.. just tells it how it is
Yeah I like that too I don't meet many real people I try to keep it that way to lot of fake people out here
Exactly! And is a refreshment for the ear, especially from someone with fame. I guess that’s what happens when you reach success through your own efforts and hard work - makes you stay true to yourself (if you read Sully Erna’s book “The Paths We Choose” - you’ll see what a long journey it was to forming Godsmack)
“That was just a drunken night of.....I don’t-I don’t even know why we were naked....” 😂 hell yeah brother! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Oh, I needed this laugh tonight. I
wow sully looks so different since 04.. WOW
You should do a show with breaking Benjamin
Fact or Fiction : Godsmack performed a "10th Anniversary" advertising campaign for an open air show in Sturgis, SD ... claiming such things as some 15 or more HD cameras filming the event. To this day, the associated dvd has yet to surface. (Any REAL reason for this?)
Fact or Fiction:
Their first album was recorded in a basement at a cost of about $5,000 ?
Craziest show I ever seen was Godsmack at Ozzfest 2000 in Phoenix Arizona. They played one song and said we were a bunch of pussies compared to the crowd in Albuquerque. The rest of the show was pure chaos. Fires lit, mosh pit raging, a security guard got his ear ripped off, it was insane. Been to Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura, Soulfly, Morbid Angle, Behemoth, Anthrax, Slipknot , none of them even come close to Godsmack that night!
He seems like a pretty cool dude
Good dude good music
you'd never know that monster grow came out of that little voice.
Amazing guy, amazing music! Thanks Sully!
How about a part 3, with Sully Erna?
Agreed where is 3 4 5 this is awesome
So they just "came up" with godsmack for their band name? Its not based off a song of the same name from another band they say is one of their primary influences?
The bass player said they took it from the aic song on a Godsmack DVD awhile ago
Well I'll do like the way they talk about God and sinning and things like that it's like he recognizes it anyway. but found out today that Chevelle has been around a while, their name means something about God and taking a vow, its pretty good stuff check it out
I totally believe in that kind of thing!
Someone needs to make Wasteeeface 3:02 a gif hahaha
I agree with the religion part mainly cause I do that myself.
LOL I was looking at Sully's nose and I suddenly thought of the Leo character in the game 'A Way Out'. XD > awayout.wikia.com/wiki/Leo_Carus
Something else interesting is that the actor who voiced him also kind of looks alike. For some reason he's also pictured playing in a band, but he's actually an actor. But anyway...
Dude I want to see Shannon do one of these. That guy is off the chain.
I think you did real good I don't think he's off no chain you are
Too many drugs possibly? Lol good old New Orleans!! they say there is A LOT OF VODOO! Hmmm song? I LOVE U - wish u were in NJ
Sully is a class act! Especially about the troops
I like his views seems down to earth God smack one kick ass band 👍
This is the kind of guy that parents can leave all of their kids with in a room and feel completely confident and comfortable.
Sully is so east coast even NYC said, "enough". Boston said, "Faaawwwk ewe"
Now, baby it's not crazy toght
Regression...thanks for standing within!
FACT: the group of people walking into the church in the beginning of the Godsmack Voodoo video are a REAL coven, led by the lady you see in the front, with white hair.
her name is Laurie Cabot.
she's the Official Witch of Salem and she just happens to be Sully's Aunt.
so of course, he's Wiccan! 🙆🏼♀️
cool beatles shirt sully!!!
3:53 is fucking hilarious!
generally: can you make such videos with storys about songs??? Only if the artist want talk about it. To Godsmack nice band and Erna sing "nothing else matters" better than metallica, really nice cover.
As a native of south Louisiana I’d say it sounds like he got some bad gris gris put on him in one of their visits 😹 but much love to Godsmack 💜
I dont know even know why we were even naked 😂
I think he sells himself short saying he sounds like James Hetfield
"I don't even know why we were naked"
Just realized that he's turning into a mixture of Sean Penn & Ringo Starr, lol
@Little Kobold 🍿
Interview jonathon davis please
If you were a fan you would know how he is.
Fabian Wagner how is he? He seems like a cool guy from what i have heard
Anthony Banchieri he has anxiety lol
@@fabianwagner9362 that's right you tell em
11 bottles of wine ?? whoa man
holy shit the hangover
Uh. Navy using a song called "sick of life" for recruitment. Too. Much. Irony.
Andrew N 😂
AWESOME!!
i would love if loudwhire made up this with corey taylor!! (sorry for bad english)
There is one for him! :D
I was that NOPE as a soundbite!
lol always thank the guy for the negative press
Sully should be president
New Orleans is heavy. Maybe its just being from New England but I cannot walk around there without feeling demonic energies.
Wastieface????
Read this comment at the exact same time he said it. Confused and set straight at the exact same time. Tripped out.
I like some Godsmack songs. Sully Erna is intelligent, charismatic, musically gifted, and fun yet smart in some ways.
Though, I will say America's troops are usually working class Americans who sell their souls to the military because they don't have money to live properly. America has extreme wealth inequality caused by very rich tyrants who enslave working class Americans. It has always been a tyrannical country founded by upper-class white men who stole natives' lands. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy were assassinated by the C.I.A. The C.I.A. targetted black people more than white people for MK Ultra. The C.I.A. started political coups to destroy progressive countries for creating unethical sweatshops and child slavery overseas. America started to become a third world country with indoctrination institutions disguised as broken education systems, rotting infrastructure, dirty water, unhealthy food, floods, droughts, increasingly limited jobs, wage slavery, etc. because its true rulers have extorted so much wealth and resources from most people while making our world burn. So, the American military is not controlled by people who give a shit about making the world be a better place for everyone. It's controlled by Wall Street monsters who don't know the meaning of justice and compassion. They only created the women's liberation movement in America to tax women, break family units, and indoctrinate children away from ethics, morals, mathematical literacy, scientific literacy, etc. They don't want working class children being critical thinkers. They want indoctrinated soldiers who make very rich men wealthier than most people. America's military insults Martin Luther King, Jr's antiwar legacy.
New Orleans is a bizarre place anyways.
I don't know what to say
Can I borrow 12 dollars?
xD
Sully almost sounds like CM punk o.o
Nice guy
Id have sent the dude who complained a fruit basket lol
Oh no it wasn't a past life lol that's just Orleans lol everybody gets that there.lol
clearly people dont listen to lyrics before criticizing art. Godsmack is on the otherside of war, far from supporting it..
What the fuck is a hut patata?