Do You Wanna Start a War," the title track on Fozzy's sixth studio album, is a self-empowerment song about defeating the opposition. Lead singer Chris Jericho knows a plain thing or two about this very thing, as he's twice proved detractors wrong: first as a wrestler and later as a rock singer. He's a six-time WWE champion with a top 20 rock album, shows with Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold under his belt, and a current tour. I chatted with Chris Jericho about overcoming the haters, the lessons he's learned, his recent death hoax, and his favorite apps. Catch Fozzy on tour this fall. You have an amazing singing voice. When did you first realize that you had vocal chops? I've been in bands since I was 12. No one wanted to sing, so I said I'd do it. That's when I started honing it. Прошивка На Андроид Explay Informer 801 read more. It's a pretty scary thought when you first sing live, but once you get over that hump, you can get your confidence and go for it and be yourself onstage. I learned at a young age that it could be done by me, when I had my first gigs at 14, playing parties. Star Apps: SoMo. I've been working on it since then, from garages to parties to teenage nightclubs to playing 50,000-seat stadiums. Once you know you can do it at the smallest levels, you recognize that you can do it at bigger venues as well. So why didn't you just give attention to music? I was interested in doing both music and wrestling really. I was a fan of both, and I grew up in Winnipeg, Canada, where the music scene wasn't really big. Слесарь-Сборщик Оборудования Учебник Пту Без Регистрации. The Guess was had by us Who in the '70s and the Crash Test Dummies in the '90s, and nothing else. So I just moved from Winnipeg to Calgary to go to wrestling school when I was 19. I was playing in bands still, but it was the wrestling that moved forward first. But my whole career in wrestling, I sang and recorded always. It's something I've always done, but one started rolling first and one second. Fozzy started out as a cover band before moving into original material. Were you embraced by the rock and metal community immediately? No. It's interesting how each and every time you do something out of the box of what you're known for, there's always some animosity toward that, and everyone's gone through it. I'm sure Jared Leto went through it with Thirty Seconds to Mars. But I've been such a metal fan my whole life and then a columnist, so persons knew I was legit as far as my knowledge and love for heavy metal. There were persons who checked out the band 'cause I was in it, and persons who didn't. You always have to work against that. But people thought the same thing when I started as a wrestler. They said I was way too small and could never make it. It's easy now to say six-time world champion and future Hall of Famer, but it was never that before. It was the same when we started Fozzy. They said, "He'll never do it." I let it roll off my shoulders just, 'cause I had been through this drill before. I got rid of negative people and negative attitudes years ago. To this full day, it's why I think we've gotten as far as we have and continue to grow. The band is bigger than ever and continues to get bigger, because we know who we are and that even the detractors will eventually get it. If you don't like the band as a result of the music, fine. If you don't like the band 'cause I'm a wrestler, then that's crazy. But if you just first listen to the band, your attitude will change. zavodintra here. Fozzy\'s Do You Wanna Start a War is available on iTunes and Amazon. Are you still wrestling? I haven't wrestled for over a year, and even when I do it's just for short bursts of time. But for the last five years, Fozzy is my main priority, so anything else I do should be around that. I noticed that in a recent Twitter post you mocked the known fact that Wikipedia listed you as being deceased. Do you Google yourself often to see what comes up? It's tricky waters when you look yourself up online. You gotta understand that some people say, "You're the greatest thing in the world," and others are going to say, "You're the worst piece of s--- ever and don't ever show your face again," which makes you feel bad. So if you're going to read reviews, know that, and get a thick skin or stay away from it. But there's no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell your name right. So I get a kick out of it and joke about it over Twitter then. For me, if I walk off the stage and the crowd was going nuts, I already know that it was great. Paul Stanley once said that the only people who say that you can't do something are persons which have failed at their own dreams. And I always took that to heart. People who tell you you can't do something are the persons that are unhappy with their own lives. So it's about believing in yourself, and everything else is merely hearsay and opinions. What are your top mobile apps? The Podcasts are loved by me app, because I have my own, and I like keeping track of who's doing what. Twitter, because it's easy, and it's instant feedback. I love Instagram, another one that's cool. Snapchat is fun for messages and videos. It's a cool way to keep in touch or mess around with my friends. There's a new one called ItsASecret, which is actually cool, because you can go and record 90-second videos for fans, kinda like a VIP club sort of thing.
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