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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Bassist Collaborates With WU-TANG CLAN's RZA, GZA

October 18, 2005

MTV.com is reporting that SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian is in talks about forming a side project with WU-TANG CLAN's RZA and GZA.

"[WU-TANG] were in the studio two months ago," working on their forthcoming, yet-untitled album, "and I got a page from RZA," Odadjian told MTV.com. "He's like, 'We're in [Los Angeles]. Come down and hang out.' So I went to the studio around midnight, and we started talking about maybe me doing some bass lines for the record. I had this white, fretless six-string bass I thought would be amazing for hip-hop, and we jammed all night, until like 7 the next morning — just RZA, GZA and me, going off on weird beats and playing weird time signatures.

"We all hit it off, so we'll be working on a solo project soon," the bassist said. "GZA's writing beats and all of the lyrics, RZA's writing beats and I'll be playing all the bass and writing most of the music. It's not written in stone, but we're talking about it. I want to get [SYSTEM frontman Serj Tankian] to play drums, maybe sing on some songs. We have a few ideas for songs and it's going to be really cool. It's going to be a really crazy album, but it's not going to be like WU-TANG or SYSTEM. It'll be wherever I'm at in my head and wherever they're at in their heads."

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