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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/27/Artsandentertainment/Michael_Moore_helps_b.shtml

Michael Moore helps band go 'Boom!'

By GINA VIVINETTO, Times Pop Music Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 27, 2003

One of the most provocative, political hard rock bands today, System of a Down, is in cahoots with Academy Award-winning documentary director Michael Moore. The band, of Armenian descent (recognize its members by their interesting beards), recently had Moore direct the video for its antiwar tune Boom!. This week, Moore won an Oscar for Bowling For Columbine, a documentary examining gun violence in America and got some boos for his antiwar rant onstage.

The video features footage from war protests around the world as well as satirical animated images of President George Bush, Saddam Hussein, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden riding atop rockets.

Daron Malakian, the band's guitarist, said in a statement that going to war with Iraq is an "extremely personal" issue for him "because I have family who live there."

"I visited Iraq when I was a teenager, and I can tell you first-hand that the people who I met there are really nice, ordinary people who don't war with us or with anyone."

© Copyright St. Petersburg Times.

[Don Gwinn]

Look, I like to listen to System of a Down (at least, I liked the self-titled album a couple of years ago.) But to call them "political" is an understatement so large as to amount to a bold lie. These guys are tinfoil-hatters of the first order. If you don't believe me, read the liner notes for "System of a Down." They believe the CIA and some kind of world conspiracy are reading their thoughts and attempting to control their minds. They believe the solar system is doomed to collapse into the sun soon, but no one is telling the public. They believe a whole lot of crazy things.

Doesn't bother me--Johnny Paycheck was a little crazy too. But that reporter loses a lot of credibility by downplaying it.

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They deserve each other...:scrutiny:

[JoeSF]

Saddam killed how many of his own people? Someone ought ot get a list of names of his victims and start naming them on C-span. I am sure it will take days and days. Maybe then the Moore-on and his pals will get it.