"No one wants to be the weird kid. You just end up being the weird kid and you can't figure out how you got there." That sentence completely encapsulates my youth.
i love that line "if Jimi Hendrix was a big fat bald guy, we wouldn't still be talking about him" i use that when im trying to convince my band that how we look and how we preform is just as important as the quality of our song.
True, there has to be some kind of purpose behind how you look as a band. Hell, even the grunge era had a purpose as to why they chose to dress so boringly, it was a counter move to how popular it had become to dress overly pompous.
I really appreciate Rob's commitment to his fans in putting on a show. He could save a ton of money by not using pyrotechnics and giant set pieces but he would rather deliver.
nobody wants to be the weird kid you just somehow end up being the weird kid and you cant figure out how you got there ..... thats a classic if i ever saw one ! but its also true !
I mean, it's true. If you choose to not have an image, you'll be known as not having an image, so that will then become your image. Kinda like how someone like Sia is known for always hiding her face.
Rob has awesome visuals and live shows but the music is really underrated. His band could turn up with a stack of amps and a backdrop and they would still crush it.
For those who keep mentioning "image isn't everything," did you not hear why he uses imagery in his music? How he plugs everything that loves into his music?
Love how honest this guy is. You can tell he isn’t “ trying “ , just saying what he wants to say - being real. Much respect for Rob Zombie and what he does.
Great interview. Very quotable indeed. Rob, thanks for the wise words. Sam, thanks for the footage. I love Metal: A Headbangers Journey. you should do a follow up since it's a bit dated. the message of it is timeless but some of the bands have changed and things have changed a lot for metal in the past 10 years. I would love to see "Sam Dunn's, Metal: The Headbanger's Journey Continues!"
some people get mixed up with white zombie with rob Zombie. I think they both have different sound but what similar is that it's the same lead singer aka rob Zombie. because when you hear white zombie and rob Zombie their a huge different sound.
He understands what Rock music is about its all or nothing and the images matter completely...it doesn't matter what's in style there is always a smoke bomb band that keeps the great tradition alive...all the critics, fads, intellectualization is secondary...like David Lee Roth said so succinctly 'It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, its how cool you looked' or something like that ..
I remember seeing them in the opera house in Toronto and there were around 40 people there. We listened to White zombie for what seemed to be years ,popped acid and went to clubs demanding they play them. Up all night wired on LSD and listening to Zombie full blast I can truly say that they helped save me and as they did that they saved music ....
Rob Zombie is totally right on the money with metal not just being about the music if the theatric element wasnt there with the music it would be kinda stale
i tryed a lot to drop metal out of my life, cuz it felt like its making me more agressive sometimes and i kinda like this feelings, but it makes harder to communicate with some people cuz of that, so i tryed few times to drop metal, i was trying to listen trance, house, dubstep music and but i always , ALWAYS ended my day with a good old metal, cuz i just cant live without it, its a energy which my body and mind needs to keep going, its like a drug and im so much addicted to it, i just cant live without it.
I've officially passed down the metal tradition to my daughter. It gives me so much nostalgia to watch her go through the musical journey like I did. Her first foray into heavy music was Korn, Asking Alexandria and SOAD. She LOVES King Diamond too bc she's an avid reader and loves the storytelling aspect of it. So as Zombie would say "She's IN it" LOL
D Sol They might not say that literally, but that's the feeling I get when people say that they listened to metal when they were young, like it's something you automatically should grow out of. They are people with no deeper connection or emotion to music, and they never had.
They're probably just people who listened to it because they didn't know what they liked when they were young. It's not they they stopped liking metal, they just never really did.
He gets it!! Life. Religion. Politics. He is smart because he knows we earthly people live in an world. We LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE IS AJTHENTIC. HE IS REAL AND TELLS HIS OWN STORY.
About 8/10 times I listen to his music I watch music videos or live videos instead of just listening to his music on spotify. The music part isn`t even the thing I`m so obsessed about being a fan of his, it`s the full show, the visual part of his art is as important as the sound, maybe even a bit more important sometimes, like thinking about the old white zombie, they were amazing but some of their old songs kinda suck but if I see videos of him singing them live in the late 80s I`m super hyped. Musically he`s not even my favourite artist but the show he puts on and everything, the music videos and devils and robots on stage, his style and cool clothes and dreadlocks and all, he`s like the coolest guy in the world. Only minus is that he runs and jumps too much on stage, the vocals get kinda silent when he`s always out of breath. I`ve also seen a few videos from the 90s when he forgot the lyrics of More Human Than Human and a few other songs too, that was a bit awkward but just made me feel fine for that being a good reminder about how everyone fails sometimes.
While I love White Zombie and like (some) Rob Zombie, I think he's a bit off-base about the image thing and it has reflected in his solo career. It seems he's gone too far "the other direction" and put image over music. Hell, I even remember a live performance from White Zombie's last days in 1995 where he was all decked out, running around on stage the whole show. It was an energetic performance, only problem was he was so out of breath he could only belt out every other syllable.
He's right i'd hate Hendrix and The Doors if Jimi or Jim didnt look cool, i have all there albums but only look at the photos of them. Same with bands, i think image & merch is much better than bothering with making good music. I think the same about films, as long as the visuals are good i dont give a fuck about the story. Same with books, if the covers good i'll buy it.
I think it reaches a point when you don't give a shit about being the weird guy, when you're a kid you often try to fit in because it's hard to be isolated from the world, but there comes a point where that doesn't matter anymore
I disagree with Rob on the grunge aspect. Grunge brought back the harder elements back into popular music. With great bands like Alice in Chains and Soundgarden.
Personally I liked a lot of "grunge". Main stream music became bland. A lot of the harder rock groups were doing a lot of bubble gum pop ballads. Grunge, with it's roots in rock and punk, was bringing in a lot of talented musicians. The Music was more focused in my opinion. But on the other hand, groups like White Zombie, Ministry, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Marilyn Manson, Revolting Cocks, Nine Inch nails (Which were going on at that time also) were great also.
if you disagree than make an arguement? or if you cant make an arguement, dont tell people you disagree. no one cares about shitty comments about what you like if you cant put an arguement of why you like it.
Grunge shows were just like the punk shows. Moshing headbanging and thrashing about. Your eyes weren't glued to the performers. That's not a bad thing. It was just different.
love it love it love it 10 minutes goes by so fast i could listen to robs point of view 24 hours a day. i cant think of one time in 20+ years ive ever disagreed. guess ill just have to play chicken run blast o rama again and again and again and again and again and againand againand againand againand againand again ALWAYS MAX VOLUME
I believe it's all part of a natural progression. Rocks n' roll was spawned by the blues, so in that early inception we have the DNA that has thus given life to all the various styles...metal, punk, grunge, and so on. My point being that grunge and punk are not separate from metal but directly linked, just as hair metal is related to thrash and punk related to blues-rock...all part of the same family tree. I see the future progression continuing to incorporate all these various styles into the collective amalgamation that will blaze a path of creative brilliance forward for the time we have left before our self-destruction.
Image always matters. I agree Rob. Image is just as important as the music itself. You have e to give people what they paid for. They paid to see a show so you give them a fucking show. Ha.
I was the goalkeeper and captain in the senior school football team so i was really popular and got the girls n shit like that, and i discovered metal! I became that weird kid but the whole school followed me! So i was responsible for fucking up like 1000 souls in one town, it was epic!
image matters if youre trying to hit it big, but not if youre trying to sound good. absence of image is a way to sift out fans that dont understand your sound...
Stop calling Rob Zombie evil!!!!!!! IV watched many interviews yeah he write evil deranged lyrics and yes he Directs very extremely violent gory Horror movies. But he's a very nice genuine guy!!!!!!!!! Outside music and movies he is just a happy socialable guy!!!!!!!!!!
I like the interviews. There camera man needs work dude. Here's filming a interview not a documentary. Either stick to a medium shot of zombie or do a 2 shot of them both. Lol
i grew up in the 90's i like rob zombie but i agree you have to have your own gimmick or persona otherwise it would be stale . i mean if you really think about it who else dresses up as a zombie for a musical act? can you imagine if other bands did it ? it die out fast. as for grunge you have to take into account there are a variety of music fans . some love hard metal some love hard rock some love punk some love grunge. it really boils down to what people like
"No one wants to be the weird kid. You just end up being the weird kid and you can't figure out how you got there." That sentence completely encapsulates my youth.
Amen, brother. Amen.
i love that line "if Jimi Hendrix was a big fat bald guy, we wouldn't still be talking about him"
i use that when im trying to convince my band that how we look and how we preform is just as important as the quality of our song.
True, there has to be some kind of purpose behind how you look as a band. Hell, even the grunge era had a purpose as to why they chose to dress so boringly, it was a counter move to how popular it had become to dress overly pompous.
I really appreciate Rob's commitment to his fans in putting on a show. He could save a ton of money by not using pyrotechnics and giant set pieces but he would rather deliver.
Case and point, Rammstein. Love or hate them they put on one hell of a show
Gotta make up for the vocals..
@@np466 and the music lol .
White zombie made some really good music everything after ehh
Rob Zombie is awesome!!! I love all of the stuff he did especially, on his Hellbilly album.
nobody wants to be the weird kid you just somehow end up being the weird kid and you cant figure out how you got there ..... thats a classic if i ever saw one ! but its also true !
that shit HIT 2000. but you know what. i think everybody else are the real weirdos
Rob Zombie just scored mega points for me on this one. Excellent interview. Rob Zombie is the truth!
Its heresy Ive heard people say "White Zombie was cool for the Summer".My response is "You only lived one Summer then"
Not even his best work,shame that song is what most know them from.
Star Wars Underground.....I love it. Devil Music will always be my favorite. I still jam that shit in my truck. The whole album was good
still here after all these M.F. yearrrrrrrsssssssss
I find him extremely handsome
He has nice hands, yeah
Still doo .
So؟
So sexy
I had no idea his voice was so nice
I’ve loved Rob zombie and Sheri since I was a kid... I still can’t get enough of his music. He’s a GENIUS and a genuine creator.
"The music...got to be a show"
If you choose not to have an image you still have an image
lol
David Vela lol. its true... the irony.
Someone's been listening to Rush.
+David Vela I'm sorry the truth sounds so stupid to you.
I mean, it's true. If you choose to not have an image, you'll be known as not having an image, so that will then become your image. Kinda like how someone like Sia is known for always hiding her face.
WEIRD KIDS UNITE!!
Hell yeah
howdy ho hehe
Nah. Let’s just enjoy the music and know that we’re all different 🤙🏼
My sister called me a freak once.I used to think that was the worst thing she could have called me. Now I wear it like a badge of honor.
Rob has awesome visuals and live shows but the music is really underrated. His band could turn up with a stack of amps and a backdrop and they would still crush it.
For those who keep mentioning "image isn't everything," did you not hear why he uses imagery in his music? How he plugs everything that loves into his music?
Strong reason why he likes Baby Metal, they give the audience a show
Love how honest this guy is. You can tell he isn’t “ trying “ , just saying what he wants to say - being real. Much respect for Rob Zombie and what he does.
This man...has my mind...and is speaking it out loud...He gets it...This is the recipe that all bands need to follow to MAKE IT...
This makes me proud to have my dads 99 ozzfest shirt
Been to every zombie show in Detroit. Kicks ass every time. Love it
Every show
Time travel neds to be invented sir
Great interview. Very quotable indeed. Rob, thanks for the wise words. Sam, thanks for the footage. I love Metal: A Headbangers Journey. you should do a follow up since it's a bit dated. the message of it is timeless but some of the bands have changed and things have changed a lot for metal in the past 10 years. I would love to see "Sam Dunn's, Metal: The Headbanger's Journey Continues!"
some people get mixed up with white zombie with rob Zombie. I think they both have different sound but what similar is that it's the same lead singer aka rob Zombie. because when you hear white zombie and rob Zombie their a huge different sound.
Rob's Visions & Honesty = Amazing! Thank you Rob for all you have contributed to Metal & Movies!
I'm 51 and i'm still the weird kid 🤘🤘and i'm proud of it!!
Rob Zombie is awesome, been through so many huge eras and has great experience. He’s like Stanley Kubrik + Music talent. Classic.
He understands what Rock music is about its all or nothing and the images matter completely...it doesn't matter what's in style there is always a smoke bomb band that keeps the great tradition alive...all the critics, fads, intellectualization is secondary...like David Lee Roth said so succinctly 'It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, its how cool you looked' or something like that
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I remember seeing them in the opera house in Toronto and there were around 40 people there. We listened to White zombie for what seemed to be years ,popped acid and went to clubs demanding they play them. Up all night wired on LSD and listening to Zombie full blast I can truly say that they helped save me and as they did that they saved music ....
Astro Creep 2000 - one of the best albums ever....
Love this so much! Really great questions by the interviewer!👏🔥👌
Rob is the realest surrealist you'll ever see...
More human than human
Andre Agassi said it best in 1990 while rocken neon tennis gear and mullet wig, "IMAGE is EVERYTHING"
Rob Zombie is totally right on the money with metal not just being about the music if the theatric element wasnt there with the music it would be kinda stale
This host looks like Geddy Lee's long lost brother.
He wishes...lmao.. no one will resemble Geddy or Rush...
I was gonna say that but you got it coverd
i tryed a lot to drop metal out of my life, cuz it felt like its making me more agressive sometimes and i kinda like this feelings, but it makes harder to communicate with some people cuz of that, so i tryed few times to drop metal, i was trying to listen trance, house, dubstep music and but i always , ALWAYS ended my day with a good old metal, cuz i just cant live without it, its a energy which my body and mind needs to keep going, its like a drug and im so much addicted to it, i just cant live without it.
I love Rob so much
I've officially passed down the metal tradition to my daughter. It gives me so much nostalgia to watch her go through the musical journey like I did. Her first foray into heavy music was Korn, Asking Alexandria and SOAD. She LOVES King Diamond too bc she's an avid reader and loves the storytelling aspect of it. So as Zombie would say "She's IN it" LOL
I think of this interview anytime I meet the person who says "oh I liked some metal back in high school"...instant thought no. ..no you didn't.
+D Sol Posers.
"Then I grew up, got a job and a family, so I couldn't listen to metal anymore".
Haha I don't think anyone's ever told me that one
D Sol They might not say that literally, but that's the feeling I get when people say that they listened to metal when they were young, like it's something you automatically should grow out of. They are people with no deeper connection or emotion to music, and they never had.
They're probably just people who listened to it because they didn't know what they liked when they were young. It's not they they stopped liking metal, they just never really did.
He never changed his look until the world finally caught up with his style. Like the mature/older version than the younger version.
I agree with Rob 1000%. When I pay my money I wanna see a show. I love all kinds of music but some are radio or stereo bands for me.
He gets it!! Life. Religion. Politics. He is smart because he knows we earthly people live in an world. We LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE IS AJTHENTIC. HE IS REAL AND TELLS HIS OWN STORY.
About 8/10 times I listen to his music I watch music videos or live videos instead of just listening to his music on spotify. The music part isn`t even the thing I`m so obsessed about being a fan of his, it`s the full show, the visual part of his art is as important as the sound, maybe even a bit more important sometimes, like thinking about the old white zombie, they were amazing but some of their old songs kinda suck but if I see videos of him singing them live in the late 80s I`m super hyped. Musically he`s not even my favourite artist but the show he puts on and everything, the music videos and devils and robots on stage, his style and cool clothes and dreadlocks and all, he`s like the coolest guy in the world. Only minus is that he runs and jumps too much on stage, the vocals get kinda silent when he`s always out of breath. I`ve also seen a few videos from the 90s when he forgot the lyrics of More Human Than Human and a few other songs too, that was a bit awkward but just made me feel fine for that being a good reminder about how everyone fails sometimes.
3:05 That time Rob Zombie refers to that era as “stare at your shoes” 👌🏼🤣🤦🏼♀️
I still love it tho🤘🏼🤷🏼♀️🤟🏼
Yeah, those bands became known as "shoe gazers"
While I love White Zombie and like (some) Rob Zombie, I think he's a bit off-base about the image thing and it has reflected in his solo career. It seems he's gone too far "the other direction" and put image over music. Hell, I even remember a live performance from White Zombie's last days in 1995 where he was all decked out, running around on stage the whole show. It was an energetic performance, only problem was he was so out of breath he could only belt out every other syllable.
I must've seen the same slo show here in Indy
I definitely am the weird kid; always will be
He's right i'd hate Hendrix and The Doors if Jimi or Jim didnt look cool, i have all there albums but only look at the photos of them. Same with bands, i think image & merch is much better than bothering with making good music. I think the same about films, as long as the visuals are good i dont give a fuck about the story. Same with books, if the covers good i'll buy it.
haha yup!
I loved White Zombie from the first time I heard Thunderkiss '65, they embodied everything good about Americana. And then I discovered Ministry.
this is why he is a dude ,awesome music and the movies are pretty decent also .Its the full package
I don't really care for Rob Zombie but I love just about everything he says in this interview.
Same.
Great interview!!
Cool interview.
Metal fans love it FOREVER.... Rob Zombie
The metal pledge of allegiance
Rob Zombie, Kix, and D.A.D. would be an awesome line up.
Rob used to hangout with my grandpa and his brother back in the 90s in Woodcrest California. Wish I would’ve had the chance to meet the crazy SOB
If you watch that and don’t end up thinking, damn, that man is super intelligent, you aren’t very bright yourself.
Rob is cool. I felt the grunge stuff was boring also.
I think it reaches a point when you don't give a shit about being the weird guy, when you're a kid you often try to fit in because it's hard to be isolated from the world, but there comes a point where that doesn't matter anymore
Super cool dude and artist and Banger rules White Zombie was awesome live
I hear you brother
Class interview
Never knew his music was metal. This guess you learn something new everyday. I thought it was novelty music.
Rob Zombie Is What Happens When The Audience Member Becomes The Star
I disagree with Rob on the grunge aspect. Grunge brought back the harder elements back into popular music. With great bands like Alice in Chains and Soundgarden.
ChameleonLost88 honestly AIC and soundgraden where one of the heavier grunge bands
Personally I liked a lot of "grunge". Main stream music became bland. A
lot of the harder rock groups were doing a lot of bubble gum pop
ballads. Grunge, with it's roots in rock and punk, was bringing in a lot
of talented musicians. The Music was more focused in my opinion. But on
the other hand, groups like White Zombie, Ministry, My Life with the
Thrill Kill Kult, Marilyn Manson, Revolting Cocks, Nine Inch nails
(Which were going on at that time also) were great also.
if you disagree than make an arguement? or if you cant make an arguement, dont tell people you disagree. no one cares about shitty comments about what you like if you cant put an arguement of why you like it.
Grunge shows were just like the punk shows. Moshing headbanging and thrashing about. Your eyes weren't glued to the performers. That's not a bad thing. It was just different.
2004? or 3004? cause damn 😳 QUALITY!!!
I swear we could be related! He loves and thinks of this stuff just like me.
Rob so ahead of his time......me too it's outsider,loner,metal is my wife my all my mother....who didn't abandon me......
What Rob said Kicked Ass
what a legend
I would credit Arthur Brown taking the visual to rock music.Alice Cooper tok it a step further. The visual is the icing on the top and it's great . ☺
I want to know what muscle cars and hot rods he owns.
Zombie nailed it. The weird kids in one place. Fuck yeah! Brothers and sisters in Metal. 🤘
Zombie: a boss here, a boss now. Badass cool.
love it love it love it 10 minutes goes by so fast i could listen to robs point of view 24 hours a day. i cant think of one time in 20+ years ive ever disagreed. guess ill just have to play chicken run blast o rama again and again and again and again and again and againand againand againand againand againand again ALWAYS MAX VOLUME
RZ it's my artist idol definetly he has done everything i would like to do: music, comics, cartoons, movies....
I believe it's all part of a natural progression. Rocks n' roll was spawned by the blues, so in that early inception we have the DNA that has thus given life to all the various styles...metal, punk, grunge, and so on. My point being that grunge and punk are not separate from metal but directly linked, just as hair metal is related to thrash and punk related to blues-rock...all part of the same family tree. I see the future progression continuing to incorporate all these various styles into the collective amalgamation that will blaze a path of creative brilliance forward for the time we have left before our self-destruction.
But what about bb king? He was always a big guy and guess what he also play some of the most quotable music still to this day
Almost sounds like Lars is interviewing him lol
"I just said, up yours baby"
this is cool guy, i love white zombie : la sexorcisto mostly
La Sexorcisto one of my all time faves back to back Every song hits!
Image always matters. I agree Rob. Image is just as important as the music itself. You have e to give people what they paid for. They paid to see a show so you give them a fucking show. Ha.
Awesome. Hail Rob Zombie.
not boring at all!
I was the goalkeeper and captain in the senior school football team so i was really popular and got the girls n shit like that, and i discovered metal! I became that weird kid but the whole school followed me! So i was responsible for fucking up like 1000 souls in one town, it was epic!
2007 can not believe that is 9 years ago. Almost ten years i have been a metal head!
Mr zombie, I love you... Lol. You're absolutely fucking awesome.
image matters if youre trying to hit it big, but not if youre trying to sound good. absence of image is a way to sift out fans that dont understand your sound...
GREAT!
These are my favorite bands
1acdc
2van Halen
3skinnard
4 def leppard lol
south saturn delta by jimi hendrix is still one of the best songs of all times no matter what he looked like
Stop calling Rob Zombie evil!!!!!!!
IV watched many interviews yeah he write evil deranged lyrics and yes he Directs very extremely violent gory Horror movies.
But he's a very nice genuine guy!!!!!!!!!
Outside music and movies he is just a happy socialable guy!!!!!!!!!!
yes ceep it up rob
Would the doors still be as big as they were if Jim Morrison wasn’t as good looking? What do u guys think ?
he's 100% right, and im a big fat bald guy
He has a Blade Runner patch on his hat🤘
Hang on...how are you friends with Rob Zombie and have no idea what goes on at a metal show?!
How's that even possible?
+Teutone I think he was just asking for the non Metal fan maybe.Dudes been to plenty of shows
you seem not to understand the point of an interview
I know rob doesnt give a shit but I didnt realize how down to earth he was.
music comes first. then image
What's up Haverhill.
Some people are obsessed with sports and some are obsessed with the Manson Family.
I like the interviews. There camera man needs work dude. Here's filming a interview not a documentary. Either stick to a medium shot of zombie or do a 2 shot of them both. Lol
A headbanger's journey
i grew up in the 90's i like rob zombie but i agree you have to have your own gimmick or persona otherwise it would be stale . i mean if you really think about it who else dresses up as a zombie for a musical act? can you imagine if other bands did it ? it die out fast. as for grunge you have to take into account there are a variety of music fans . some love hard metal some love hard rock some love punk some love grunge. it really boils down to what people like
Flash before substance...i'd take an old White Zombie show over a new RZ show anyday.