Staind

Staind Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia

  • Aaron Lewis also goes on his own tours as a solo artist. []
  • They toured with 3 Doors Down, Hurt, Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin in their Staind Tour 2006 to promote the release of Chapter V. []
  • The influences for their first album Tormented have been cited as Pantera and Sepultura. []
  • Band member Aaron Lewis helped Linkin Park in the remix of the song "Crawling" titled "Krwling". He also performed background vocals for Sevendust's song "Follow". []
  • The CD's that they have released are Tormented (1996), Dysfunction (1999), Break the Cycle (2001), 14 Shades of Grey (2003), Chapter V (2005) and The Singles: 1996-2006 (2006). []
  • They have released two DVD's called Staind: MTV Unplugged and Staind: The Videos. []
  • During a January 2006 Episode of WWE RAW, a tribute video to then WWE Champion Edge featured the band's song Right Here. []
  • Their song So Far Away was featured on an episode of WWE RAW as part of a video tribute to hardcore wrestling legend Mick Foley. []
  • The song Price to Pay was the theme to WWE Vengeance 2003. []
  • Wysocki's inspirations are: The Police, Toto, Tool, and Sevendust. []
  • John Wysocki plays the drums for Staind. []
  • Mushok's influences are: Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, and James Taylor. []
  • Mushok studied under "shred artist" Tony MacAlpin. []
  • Mushok began to study the electric guitar at age thirteen. []
  • Mushok received his first acoustic guitar when he was six years old. []
  • Mike Mushok is the guitarist for Staind. []
  • Lewis doesn't like to speak in detail about his childhood, except to say that he had low self-esteem, and often felt terribly alone. []
  • Lewis once dealt with fleeting thoughts of suicide. []
  • Lewis penned the track "Waste" after a mother approached him after a show in Detroit, looking for answers as to why her son committed suicide. []
  • An Illinois teen was so affected by "Outside" that he taught himself to play it on his guitar, recorded it, then listened to it before he hung himself. []
  • Lewis names his wife as the biggest influence in his life. []
  • The woman in the video for "It's Been Awhile" is Lewis's wife. []
  • The ballad "It's Been Awhile" was #1 on the modern rock and mainstream radio playlists for 4 months after it was released. []
  • Staind released the track "Outside" off of the Break The Cycle album, and it was #1 on the charts for seven straight weeks. []
  • Staind toured twice with Limp Bizkit, twice with Kid Rock, and once with Korn. []
  • Staind bought themselves all Rolex watches when their album Break The Cycle went triple platinum. []
  • Staind's second album, Dysfunction went platinum, selling over one million copies. []
  • Staind used to practice in Mushok's parent's basement when they first started out. []
  • Staind put out their first album Tormented November 29, 1996. []
  • Lewis went to Goldsmith school in Arizona, as a backup plan, in case the music business didn't work out. []
  • Mushok graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in electronic engineering. []
  • Staind considers themselves four ordinary guys, who are doing an extraordinary thing. []
  • Staind was formed in November 1995. []
  • Staind credits Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit for giving them their start. []
  • Aaron Lewis and Mike Mushok met at a house party ten months before they started a band together. []

Quotes

  • Lewis: I didn't know if the audience that responded to 'Dysfunctional' would even begin to understand where we went in 'Break The Cycle'. []
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