How is Drowning Pool with Ryan McCombs different from Drowning Pool with Jason “Gong” Jones or Dave Williams?
Stevie Benton: After Dave passed, Ryan was the original singer, I think, we wanted, the reason being we knew the guy, we were friends with the guy. We just thought he’d be a great fit, both musically and personally. Unfortunately, he was still working in a band, so we didn’t want to go in there and break up that whole rig. So instead, we held auditions and just wound up getting a total stranger in the band. We’ll always be proud of the record we made with Gong. That was never a problem. It was once we got on the road touring together every day that we realized the personality conflict was not gonna allow the band to continue that way. With Dave, we had always been such a tight-knit group, such a family—brothers, basically. So we weren’t used to having to deal with these personal issues that we had with Gong, just the personality conflict. I would say probably he didn’t handle that very well and neither did we. So that’s what ultimately led to us parting ways. By the time that happened,
