What’s true and false about Slipknot? Drummer Jay Weinberg joined us to show and disprove what’s written about him and the band on Wikipedia.
In the event you see Jay in particular person, don’t name him “ballbag.” Regardless of what Wikipedia says, that’s not one among Weinberg’s precise nicknames. Nonetheless, Jay has a principle on why that bought added to his Wiki web page.
“That may have come from the time frame once I was nonetheless nameless within the band,” Weinberg begins. “To relax into [‘Spit it Out’] Corey motions to me to start out the music again up. Each evening he was saying some type of totally different title to me, in order that’s most likely what that was born out of.”
Weinberg bought deep into telling the tales of his first instances onstage — performing visitor spots with the Bouncing Souls and the Used when he nonetheless had little or no expertise on the drums. In reality, working towards with the Bouncing Souls at his dwelling was the primary time his father, legendary Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg, bought to see his son play.
“The primary time my dad ever noticed me play was once I kinda raised my hand and requested the Bouncing Souls guys, who have been at my home enjoying with him, ‘Hey, can I play a pair songs with you guys?’ We ended up enjoying two songs collectively at [an] Asbury Lanes present. Tremendous, tremendous rad.”
Possibly probably the most fascinating piece of knowledge Jay shared with us is in regards to the outdated story that when he and bassist V-man joined Slipknot, the 2 got a possibility to design their very own masks, however ended up created “cartoonish” ones that the band rejected. Based on Jay, that by no means occurred, and placing that story out into the press was considerably of a hazing ritual from the traditional Slipknot members.
“Whereas we have been making [.5: The Gray Chapter] it was like, ‘That is a lot to deal with, I’m not even desirous about [masks],’” Weinberg recollects. “To my understanding, Clown type of had this concept to offer the brand new guys within the band the identical masks, the place we’d discover our id in that. It was by no means one thing spoken, it was by no means one thing that was on function, it simply occurred as a result of that’s the way in which life occurs — [V-man’s] masks grew to become extra him, my masks grew to become extra mine. Our personalities began to indicate by way of within the ways in which they have been decomposing and I’d smear make-up on mine and stuff and it simply grew to become this new factor. [I used] that as a foundation for a way I’d rework into a brand new masks.”
The drummer lightheartedly continued, “[The failed masks story] was most likely freshman hazing stuff that we went by way of. ‘Oh yeah, these guys made masks they usually didn’t work out.’ That didn’t actually occur.”
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