I was probably smoking weed or something…”

For some reason, that thought was weird to me. “If someone died in a car accident, you’d say, ‘Oh, poor thing.’ But if they died in a car accident while they were drunk, that would change your whole perception of how they died, and judging his or her death a in a different way. “It occurred to me how we are judgmental towards people, even in death,” explains Daron.

Precisely what ‘Why’d you leave the keys upon the table?/Here you go create another fable’ means is still up for grabs. Like many of System’s songs, the finished lyrics were vivid but opaque, designed to be shouted along to but not necessarily understood.

While the initial version had a recognisable shape, Daron’s original lyrics were completely different: ‘Tell me/Tell me what you think about tomorrow/Is there gonna be a pain and sorrow/Tell me what you think about the people/Is there gonna be another sequel?’ System singer Serj Tankian would alter song’s opening, turning it into an memorable clarion call: ‘Wake up/Grab a brush and put a little make-up.’ Even at that early stage, it could only have been a System Of A Down song. It shifted from broken-glass riff to quasi-rapped mutant-funk verses to a simple two-line sunburst of a chorus. Where the songs from System’s first album were designed to set off depth- charges in moshpits everywhere, this new song was simultaneously more experimental and more melodic. It was one of a batch of ideas that the guitarist spent the best part of a year working on in private before he presented them to his bandmates and producer Rick Rubin as contenders for Toxicity. It didn’t tumble out fully formed, nor was it the only song he had flying around his head. I just started playing that acoustic guitar, and that’s when I started writing Chop Suey!.” “There was an acoustic guitar I used to take around with me. “I was just hanging out by myself on a bed at the back,” says Daron. Sketches - /user/playlist?list.Modern metal’s greatest song was born in the back of an RV travelling down some long- forgotten highway between stop-offs on the tour for System’s debut album. My Music / Guitar Covers - /user/playlist?list. Kazookeylele playlist - /user/playlist?list. This could be a vlog, a music video, sketch or just a random video. Pockets discovered the Ukulele in 2006 and in his own words “has never looked back!” I tend to upload as often as I can, I am for videos once every week but sometimes life happens. Weekly RUclips video uploads and an album just to name a couple. Just back from a residency playing with the United Komedy Ukulele Orchestra in Dollywood Tennessee, he is spending the next few months creating as much of everything as possible. The Kazookeylele video of his performance is now sitting at a whopping 7 million views. Pockets's biggest claim to fame is his cover of an 80s hair rock anthem on an instrument he invented himself. Stuart has been on Rude Tube, Britain’s Got Talent and was asked to do an advert for Doritos in Canada. He has over 10 million views and 15 thousand subscribers on his RUclips channel /user/crouts0. PocketFluff Perform a System of a down song live on Ukulele! Live Edinburgh Fringe 2012 Patreon - Stuart Crout (aka Pockets) is a Musician, Director and Comedian based in Edinburgh.

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