Musician Serj Tankian, best known as front man for System Of A Down, chats with Trey Elling about DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM: A MEMOIR (OF SORTS). Topics include:
- His family in the Armenian Genocide (0:00)
- The Lebanon Civil War (4:48)
- Being an immigrant kid (7:38)
- The music epiphany (10:32)
- Dad’s helpful advice (13:11)
- “System Of A Down” meaning (15:05)
- Rick Rubin (16:47)
- His first visit to Armenia (19:47)
- Criticizing the US, post-9/11 (21:31)
- Spurning the Grammys (24:55)
- B.Y.O.B. (28:22)
- Steal This Album! & “Boom!” (29:16)
- Maintaining creative freedom (31:15)
- Compassionate confrontation (32:12)
- Parenthood (33:48)
- System’s ONE Armenia show (37:30)
- Showing Bourdain around Armenia (39:08)
- An ode to America (42:42)
- An ode to making music (43:27)
- An ode to being Armenian (45:46)