AUDIOSLAVE, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLIPKNOT Members Share Halloween Antics

Launch Radio Networks reports: Rock music and Halloween just seem to go together, and plenty of rock musicians have had some interesting experiences on this scary and mischief-filled holiday. A few of them shared their tales of tricks and treats with Launch:

AUDIOSLAVE bassist Tim Commerford told Launch that when he was younger, he was one of the kids you wanted to stay away from on Halloween. "I didn't dress," he said. I was a rough kid. I was a mean-hearted, sort of jerk kid, you know. I was into my clique of people and we would torment all other children. So, like, my Halloweens were filled with tormenting trick-or-treaters, you know, and looking for other kids who were dressed up and adding to their cost in candy, whatever."

Sounds like SLIPKNOT's Jim Root may have had a run-in with Tim Commerford, or kids like him, when Root himself was growing up. "You know, when I was, like, nine or ten years old, the older kids in the neighborhood used to chase me around and steal my candy," he told Launch. "But I know who they are, even though they were wearing masks, and I'm gonna find them and kick their asses now."

For SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian, Halloween night is all about the partying. "I DJ, and I've been DJing for, like, eight years under a different name," he told Launch. "And at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, I played this party. I was wearing a kimono and long wig and no one knew it was me when I got up there. And by the time I got up there, 'cause I was last, you know, the place was just going crazy. It was really cool, like, because that place is haunted, you know."

P.O.D. drummer Wuv, on the other hand, keeps his Halloween partying close to home. "I do the normal dad stuff, man," he said. "I go out with my kids around the neighborhood. My boys are 10 and 8, and then my daughter's a little 3-year-old. Last year they wanted to venture out and hit, like, the real scary haunted house, so I took 'em there last year, which was cool, you know. They handled it pretty well. But I'll probably do that, you know, and just, and hang around the neighborhood, man, let my kids have fun."

And of course, it wouldn't be Halloween without at least one band playing a show in crazy costumes. In this case, it was the DEFTONES, as guitarist Stephen Carpenter told Launch: "Everybody in the band dressed up. I had a mask and an Afro wig, but the rest of the guys all dressed up like girls. Go figure. Actually, Chino (Moreno, vocalist) was dressed up like Prince, he was trying to be Prince. Chi (Cheng, bassist) was definitely a drag queen, not even a girl, just a drag queen completely, and same with Abe (Cunningham, drummer). Abe, that's Abriana (laughs)."