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Could someone out there please let Aaron Lewis know he's a Rock God? For virtually all of this Staind Live From Mohegan Sun Blu-ray, captured on November 25, 2011 as the band set out on tour for the first time with their then new drummer Sal Giancarelli, Lewis seems to be largely unaware that he's performing before throngs of screaming fans. He's incredibly "interior" for the bulk of this concert, literally hanging on to the microphone and stand with his eyes firmly shut, singing as if to satisfy some inner muse and evidently not caring one whit about the more or less real world "out there". When Lewis does open his eyes and make contact with the audience, it's in ironic moments like his solo rendition of "Country Boy", a narrative song which sums up Lewis' philosophy as more or less, "I ain't no rock star, so don't try to pigeonhole me that way." In an interview included on this Blu-ray as a supplement, the band seems both slightly amazed but ultimately nonplussed that they're celebrating their seventeenth year as successful musicians. Staind is yet another band that came up through the trenches their own way, self-releasing their first album (with evidently only 4,000 units press…