With The Dillinger Escape Plan has gone all over the place to celebrate the last few years Reading Infinity and frontman Dimitri Minakakis, some fans have continued to ask the obvious question: what about Greg Puciato? The question on everyone’s mind should be, “will Greg Puciato ever return to TDEP?”
Now, we have a little answer from the man himself, as Puciato answered the question while speaking to Lochlan Watt Music Is My Life (as written by Blabbermouth). And what we got was a long, albeit in-depth, look at his thoughts on the fate of Dillinger and his relationship with the team he led from 2001 to 2017.
“It’s difficult [not to] because it is always in your face. It’s always in my face. It is not possible [not to think about it]. Every show, there’s people with shirts, every show there’s people out there [have] report [for me] to sign. They have Ire Worksthey have One of Us is a Killeror they ask me about it. But I’m proud of it. I’m not saying, ‘Fuck, it’s not me anymore. Nobody talks to me about it.’ I am proud of it. It made our lives, and everyone involved, possible to some extent. Everything that anyone of great importance in that group has done since then is because of our interactions with each other. So I look at it objectively. None of mine has negativity about it.
“And, yes, I can say every day of my life, I know it, but I don’t think about it, if that makes sense. Because you can’t – you have to let yourself be who you are now. I think the only way to do that is to always look forward. You can know what happened behind you, but you don’t want to turn around and not look at high school or different from me. You know you’ve been through it, it’s a part a big part of your progress, you are proud of everything that happened at that time, or an old person or something like that, but you have to continue that way.
We grow old, we change, and that will be for the best. Read loud and clear, man. But what about his thoughts on Minakakis’ return to the band? He certainly has some thoughts on that.
“Reading Infinity it is very important. I bought it the day it came out. I was a fan of that band… But, yeah, Dimitri was perfect on that record. That record has a sound that, unlike all the other records, is a unique sound, whereas after that, we started to be a different band, where we had a lot of different possibilities vocally and creatively. But I think that record is very clear – it’s a clear vibe – and to me it’s still fun.
“It’s funny because people expect me to be negative [opinion of what they are doing]like, ‘That’s it.’ But I wasn’t on that record. That would be amazing if I was included in that. I have nothing to do with that record. Why would I go out and play that record? If they do that with that record game, I don’t need to be there just for that game. If they went out and did a Miss Machine playthrough, or a One of Us is a Killer playing… I mean, look, obviously that’s not going to happen, but…”
Puciato fronted the band for 16 years, with his last album in 2016. Separation. The album ended up getting a year-long tour, with the band playing three final shows at New York City’s Station 5. As for whether he’ll ever join a band to celebrate one of the albums he’s been on, Puciato sounded unsure if it would be anything at all.
“There’s something about doing that, to me, that you have to put a cap on it if you’re going to do it. I feel like it’s kind of like an endorsement, like, ‘Oh, I’m not…’ That’s what I was thinking. I’d be like, ‘Oh, I, I need to work creatively now.’ It doesn’t really interest me, because it takes a lot of your time to do that. And I have a lot of gas for doing new things. I want to write new music. I want to write new songs, do new things, interact with new people. I enjoy music, I love art, and I enjoy singing. You already have to download something you have already done when visiting. We were already playing songs from 15 years ago when the band was going. We were playing Panasonic Youth every night, and it started to become, like, ‘Fucking hell, man. How many times…?’ … So you have to go. So when the group ended, I wouldn’t have told you it wasn’t. No fucking way. It will take up too much of my time. I walked out of that class feeling like I’d been shot in a rocket and had plenty of fuel to do some new shit. There was no question. I didn’t say, ‘What am I going to do now?’ I filled up with gas.
“So – can I do it? Miss Machine playthrough, because I think that’s amazing. There is no real need. They’re playing one album, because that’s the only album there is [with Dimitri]besides EPs and stuff. It would have to include everything from Miss Machine to Separationand it would have to have a cap on it. Because when you start doing that – it’s easy money again, and then, you start to feel like, you’re getting this money, but your life is passing. I’m almost 46 years old, so what am I going to do? Do it for a few years, then suddenly you’re 48. You can’t let it take too long. You have to keep doing new things. There’s something about it where you have to feel good about the fact that you have enough new things that aren’t all your own, and you can still go back to it without it consuming you all the time. ”
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