John Dolmayan’s Funny Response to Glenn Close/System of a Down Golden Globes Joke
System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan has now chimed in on the delightfully random joke from the Golden Globes about Glenn Close being a “former drummer” for the band.
He shared a doctored SOAD band photo on Instagram and captioned the image, “I guess the cats out of the bag thanks to that a@#h*+£ @nikkiglaser. The fact is @glennclose wrote the drums for most of the second system album and had to come in to lock down decent takes of a few songs as I just couldn’t handle the difficulty and we were running out of time.”
Dolmayan added, “Thanks to @daronmalakian @serjtankian @shavoodadjian and @teamcoco for keeping the secret for so long. (a little known fact is that Conan co- produced all our albums ) I feel better that the truth is out there.”
Earlier this week, SOAD Daron Malakian had also commented on the joke. He shared a clip of the joke on Instagram and captioned it, “Bet you didn’t know!!!! Bet you didn’t know!!!!! Somewhere between our first drummer and John [Dolmayan], Glenn Close was tearing sh-t up on the drums for us!!!!!!”
In other System of a Down news: The band will be playing three stadium shows this year that each feature a major special guest. The first show is set for August 28 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. with Korn. The second show is on August 31 at Soldier Field in Chicago with Avenged Sevenfold. The third show is on September 3 at Rogers Stadium in Toronto with Deftones. Complete ticket and show details can be found at SystemOfADown.com.
The band’s last official tour was in 2018, with the final show of that tour taking place on October 19, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. According to Setlist.fm, they have performed only 15 times since then. In 2024, they only performed two shows: A headlining set at Sick New World in Las Vegas on April 27 and a special one-day festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The latter show also featured Deftones and The Mars Volta.
