Rocklahomawasasmashing successduringLaborDay weekend. Multiple bands performed for the crowd that amassed over 60,000.
Filter was one of the bands to grace the stage during the event. The band was created after Richard Patrick left the band Nine Inch Nails in 1993. Filter had a short hiatus in 2006 when Patrick, Dean and Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots and Ray Luzier of Korn formed the supergroup Army of Anyone.
EventhoughPatrickcame up with the name of the band inamundaneway,themeaning is much deeper.
“I was at an oil changing place like Jiffy Lube and saw the word filter, then I thought everybody has one,” Patrick said. “And the way I see the world is different from the way anybody else sees the world.”
“The mind is like this big, huge thing that deciphers information,” he continued. “We all have filters.”
Patrick said it is also based onthephilosopherImmanuel Kent.
The band took the stage and came out of the gate with four songs off of their new album. He said the song “Obliteration” is “starting to get traction.”
Many musicians and bands travel the world. They play huge venues and small festivals. Patrick said he doesn’t have a preference for either, that he likes both for different reasons.
“To me, it’s just all awesome,” he said. “Festivals are outdoorsandpeoplearecrazy and less inhibited.”
“Both are amazing, though,” he continued. “Arenas are better for the shows, like the smoke goes where it’s supposed to go.”
Patrick attributes his love of music to his eclectic taste in artists. He grew up loving musicians from Patsy Cline to Mick Jagger.
He said that musicians who are just breaking out in the music industry are starting to get on the road.
“Make sure you have time to yourself everyday,” he said. “Put some earphones in, try to be quiet. You’re going to be surrounded by people all the time, busy, and talking about yourself all the time. Get some you time.”
Charles White