How tall is Josh Dan. “On stage, we sometimes feel very vulnerable.

Josh Dun - drummer Twenty One Pilots. While many are trying to expand the scope of their hobbies and do several things at once, Josh with young age improved exclusively in drumming and achieved the greatest professionalism in this matter.

Josh was born on June 18, 1988, the same year as Tyler Joseph, in Columbus (Ohio, USA), he has two sisters and a brother. Tyler, contrary to rumors appearing from time to time on the Internet, is not his brother 🙂

Josh grew up in a religious family (by the way, like Tyler), which did not stop him from making music. Parents always supported their son's hobby and even gave him a room in the basement under music studio where Josh would sit for hours pounding his drums.

Josh doesn't music education and everything he learned, he achieved on his own, using videos of other musicians found on the Internet as a guide. There was a time when he didn't even have his own drum set and he went to train at the nearest record store.

Josh's aggressive drumming threatened to ruin him on drumsticks, and then the musical equipment company Zildjian asked him to custom-make reinforced (and slightly elongated) drumsticks. Later, the model was put into mass production.

In the Russian-speaking crowd, Josh received the nickname "Kazakh", with light hand one Internet user who wrote a message in the style of “help identify the clip”, where he called the main characters of the video “a boy with a dirty neck” and “Kazakh” 🙂 After that, it started ...

At all concerts, Josh performs his signature number - a back somersault with a piano. Regular attendees of the band's performances are so used to it that everyone is already waiting for this number and Josh has no choice ...

Josh admits to natural modesty and this explains that at first he performed at concerts in various masks (including a balaclava). Later he managed to partially overcome this shyness and in this moment only red eyes and bright hair remained from the former costume.

At concerts, in addition to somersaults, Josh has another signature number - crowdsurfing with drum set. Those who have seen say that the sight is outstanding.

Tyler and Josh are periodically trolled about homosexual preferences. The guys show complete indifference to these hints, and sometimes they start to make fun and add fuel to the fire themselves. What can you not do to let the public scratch their tongues ...

Worldwide success for Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots puzzled everyone, including, it seems, its participants. Decorated with tattoos and black paint, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, as if descended from posters from Bravo magazine in 2005, quietly released albums and slowly increased their “skeleton cabal” (as their fans call themselves). Suddenly, their word of mouth hit "Stressed Out" sounded on all the radio stations of the planet, and the song "Heathens" appeared on the soundtrack of the loud summer blockbuster "Suicide Squad". In general, now they own the hearts of teenagers who are hungry for beautifully reflective idols with tunnels in their ears.

The program composition of Twenty One Pilots, the track "Stressed Out", was released in April last year. But the hype around him began with a delay of about six months. It has since been viewed over 650 million times.

About tours in Russia

Actually, Tyler and I have been dreaming of coming to you for a long time. We know a lot of cool Russians, we are waiting for something unforgettable. In turn, I promise to beat the drums with all my might!

About the handshake from the "Stressed Out" video

We came up with it five years ago. We sat in the hotel room at four in the morning, could not sleep, and then they were like: “Let's come up with a secret handshake? All best friends should have it, right? Since then, every time we say hello. After the clip, however, this is no longer a secret. But I won’t teach anyone: come on, you yourself will come up with your own version with your best friend.

About the film "Suicide Squad", the main theme of which was the track "Heathens"

Listen, well, the film entertained me personally, and this is the main thing. I love superhero movies in general. And I never approach them overly critical: it's just an opportunity to disconnect from reality for a couple of hours and relax.

About superpowers

I would like to be able to run very fast. At least 50 miles per hour.

About reading

The best I've read in recent times, was Hulk Hogan's tweet: "Kevin Owens and A.J. Styles, remember: in order for WWE to blow everyone's towers, you need to rip off Eric Young's pants and leave him in speedos" (American wrestlers are listed. - Note. ed.).

About fear and uncertainty

The older you get, the more you start to worry. Anxiety grows over the years - my doctor once compared it to a volcanic eruption. Generally, the main problem in that it is often difficult in principle to understand what exactly you are experiencing. For me, music has always been the best antidepressant and replaced psychotherapy. I'm sure I'm far from the only one.

About the funniest colleagues

We've toured with a lot of artists from Fall Out Boy to Echosmith. Who is the most fun with? Last summer I celebrated my birthday in New Hampshire with Mutemath and Chef'Special. So I ate Oreo pudding and ate it with Oreo cake - and it was probably my wildest birthday in my life.

How to maintain healthy relationships in a team where there are only two members

What do we do if we fight? To be honest, we just don't fight at all. What is important here is that we have already been good friends when they started playing together. We wildly respect each other, which is very important when you spend so much time together.

On October 22 and 23, Twenty One Pilots will perform in Russia for the first time. Tickets for the Moscow concert at the Sokol club (formerly Stadium Live) have long been sold out, in St. Petersburg the organizers moved the performance to a more spacious Ice Club.

Josh Dun is a popular American musician, as well as a member famous group Twenty One Pilots. He was born on June 18 (twins according to the horoscope) 1988 in Columbus (USA, Ohio). Full name— Joshua William Dun.

Josh Dun was born in absolutely ordinary family. His father, William Earl Dun, was a physical therapy assistant at the time, and his mother, Laura Lee McCollum, was a social worker. In addition to Josh himself, his sisters and brother - Ashley, Abigail and Jordan - were also brought up in the family. Since early age Josh loved music because it gave him the ability to feel more confident and calm. Together with her, he seemed to acquire strength and was transported to a completely different world, where no one could find him and disturb him. AT school years played the trumpet until he came to the conclusion that this instrument did not fit in with his musical preferences at all. It is for this reason that he soon starts playing the drums.

There was a ban on various music in the Dan family, as Josh himself recalls, he could not fully listen to modern music, since parents always controlled the personal preferences of each child. It was for this reason that he secretly went to local music stores and learned there about styles of music completely unfamiliar to him, and also found idols for himself.

Musical career

Josh initially worked at the Guitar store for three years until he came to the conclusion that he wanted to start his own musical career. He made his debut as a drummer by joining musical group House of Heroes in March 2010 after their drummer Colin Rigsby decided to take a break and spend some quality time with his family. Josh continued to play as part of this group until October 2010, when Colin returned and joined the group.

In 2011, Josh met Chris Salih, the former drummer for Twenty One Pilots. A little later, Josh fixes friendly relations with Tyler Joseph, the band's lead vocalist. In the same year, Nick Thomas and Chris Salih leave the group and give the opportunity to try their hand at Josh Dan. He eventually becomes a permanent member of the Twenty One Pilots. Together they released an album as well as several popular tracks.

Relations

In 2013 he started dating American singer and actress Debbie Ryan, but soon, due to personal reasons, the couple broke up in September 2014. In 2015, there were suspicions that the singer was dating the popular American singer Ashley Frangipane, better known under the pseudonym Halsey.

Twenty One Pilots (the band's name is always written in lowercase) have made a lot of noise over the past few years with their experiments with musical style and notable live performances.

Debuting in 2009 and signed to Fueled by Ramen in 2012, the band, made up of vocalist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun, released two critically acclaimed albums, Vessel and Blurryface. The latter became their calling card. Their lyrical, cheeky lyrics have resonated with many fans around the world.

The nearest concerts of Twenty One Pilots in Russia will be held on February 2, 2019 in Moscow (VTB Arena) and on February 4 in St. Petersburg ( Ice Palace).

The name Twenty One Pilots is taken from a play by Arthur Miller.

In college, Tyler Joseph studied Miller's play All My Sons, about a man who stands in front of moral choice after knowingly selling defective Air Force aircraft parts resulting in the deaths of twenty-one pilots during World War II. Inspired by this moral dilemma, Joseph names the group "Twenty-One Pilots". It is these ethical issues and situations from life that became the basis for many of the group's songs.

The musicians put photos of their grandfathers on the cover of "Vessel"

The two older men on the cover of Fueled by Ramen's debut release are Tyler's grandfathers Joseph and Josh Dun. Joseph and Dan thought it would be cool because no one had done it before.

Their ski masks symbolize facelessness

After the release of Vessel, the Twenty One Pilots began wearing balaclavas during live performances, and at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, the audience even followed suit. In an interview, the band stated that ski masks are a way not only to surprise people at concerts, but also to make the music more impersonal and thus irrelevant - to separate it from faces and names so that people can make it their own.

Blurryface is the character the album was named after

Tyler Joseph said that Blurryface is a character he invented, personifying his own complexes and the complexes of other people. To get into character on stage, he applied black paint to his neck and arms, which he says symbolizes the fear of suffocation (the paint on his neck) and the thing he makes with his hands (the paint on his hands). He also wears red wristbands because red is the character's color.

They tried to attract the attention of stage workers during concerts.

When the Twenty One Pilots were just a local band in Columbus, they tried to get the attention of everyone in the club, even the bartenders who served the patrons. In an interview, Tyler said that they aimed to ensure that even service staff interrupted his studies for even a second and glanced at the stage.

They are Christians, but not Christian performers

Both Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have said that they are Christians, but they are not going to convince anyone of anything through music. However, since their beliefs are important to them, they often slip through texts and general symbolism in one way or another.

Tyler once kicked an attendee out of a concert.

Once Tyler Joseph stopped the show because he saw a guy in the audience hit a girl. He stopped playing and, along with several other people, pushed him off the court.

Twenty One Pilots Won't Tell What Their Logo Means

Tyler Joseph designed the band's logo himself, and refers to it as the "kitchen drain". He stated that it had a certain meaning to him, as well as the fact that he is the only person who knows what it symbolizes. And if he tells, then the meaning will be lost.

None of the band members play the guitar

Twenty One Pilots usually manages with synths, ukuleles and drums, which makes their music quite distinctive because they don't use guitar at all. This is because neither Joseph nor Dan play it. They say that if they used a guitar, they would have to look for someone to play it, and then the music would come through someone who wasn't part of the band.

Josh played drums for House of Heroes

Prior to joining Tyler Joseau in Twenty One Pilots, Josh Dun was the touring drummer for the rock band House of Heroes. After original members Nick Thomas and Chris Sahlin left the band, Dan, who worked at the Guitar Center with Sahlin, met Joseph and they started playing together.

Tyler Joseph released solo album

While still at school, Tyler Joseph released an EP of Christmas songs. He also featured on a live performance of "Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel" on Christmas with the Stars for Five14 Church and as backing vocalist on Dallon Weeks's (Panic! at the Disco) single "Sickly Sweet Holidays".

Tyler also starred in videos for his church.

Before Twenty One Pilots became world famous, Tyler Joseph shone his acting talents in short videos that he and several others from his church in Ohio made. In the video, titled "The (moderately inspiring tale of the) Longboard Rodeo Tango", he plays an intern who finds out his comrades are a skateboard gang.

The Vessel album was written without much expectation that anyone would hear it.

When Vessel came out, the band was still fairly unknown, so when they went into the studio to record, no one expected anything from them. However, the band has said that when they recorded "Blurryface" it was hard not to think about the fact that there is an audience out there somewhere that is hungry for this record.

They filmed a music video for Will Smith

In one of his most interesting videos on "House of Gold", the band appears in front of the audience in the middle of some kind of wasteland and half of their body is torn off. But the place itself is also of interest. The video was filmed on a ranch north of Los Angeles owned by Will Smith.

Once they got a tattoo right on stage

Both Tyler and Josh have an "X" tattoo that they got on stage in Columbus. Joseph wears it on his forearm and Dan wears it behind his right ear, symbolizing the devotion of the fans in their hometown.