SlipKnot Members [Part Two]
[All of this info was copied form the archive of this blog on Skyrock.com circa 2009 -2010: User: maggot777 on Skyrock. com ]
[Iām just sharing it and take no credit]
[This post will include the current members, circa 2010]
Name: Sidney George Wilson
Position: DJ
N Ā° 0
Nickname: Monkeyboy or Ratboy
Born March 15, 1978, Sid is the youngest of the group and by far the craziest. His scenic escapades helped to build the reputation of SlipKnoT in its early days. Since the European tour where he accidentally injured a fan during the concert in London, he has calmed down somewhat.
Although with British origins, Sid is American and was born in Des Moines. Passionate about music, he creates a posse of Djs called Sound Proof Coalition. It is thanks to this posse that he will meet the group during Dotfest in 1998.
āI donāt know why, but this skinny dude with his red T-shirt and green shorts caught my eye that day. And then it must be said that a guy who listens to punk while scratching on hip-hop is not common, āShawn declared.
Six months later, Sid will go to the Hairy Mary Club to see the band in concert. That night Shawn jumps into the audience and comes face to face with Sid. From this impromptu meeting was born the friendly rivalry between them, the goal being to knock out the other during the concert. For the record, this is the only time Sid has beaten Shawn. After this concert, Sid will meet SlipKnoT and tell them that he wants to be part of the group. The legend says that Shawn will not think more than ten seconds before saying yes, estimating the man enough barjo to join the group.
Since then, Sid has been a mainstay of the band, justifying his presence with samples and scratches on many tracks, heās also working on a more personal project for which he took over his DJ name Starscream and released a solo album called Full Metal Scratch It in reference to the movie Full Metal Jacket. The album announced for 2001 did not actually see the light of day until 2004 following a number of problems with the label that was to release the CD. In the end, it was N2O that played the role of distributing the CD containing most of the samples that Sid uses in SlipKnoT as well as in various other projects. He also collaborates with Ampt, a band from New Jersey that he joined as a DJ.
Name: Nathan Jonas ā Joey ā Jordison
Position: Drums
N Ā° 1
Nickname: Speedball
Born April 26, 1975 at the Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Joey spent all his childhood and adolescence in the small town of Yankee, located fifteen kilometers from Des Moines. Very introverted because of his small size (1.60 m), Joey has often served as a pain reliever for his classmates, but he knew deep down that one day he would prove to them that he was better. than them. Arrived in high school, he is deeply into Kiss and Black Sabbath and decides to start a group; he held the position of guitarist there. The guitar has always been his passion and he plays it whenever he can. However, the pitiful level of the drummer in his group pushes him to get behind the barrels. He finished his studies in high school and decided to get into music.
One of his groups (Modifious, of which Paul and Craig were part) has had some success but not enough to make a living from it. There is a job at a gas station. Working at night, he occupies his days rehearsing with the group. One evening, his best friend comes to see him with a certain Corey Taylor. Corey doesnāt make a good impression on him and the evening ends with a sentence to his friend about Corey (who is red-haired and had long hair at the time): āBring Dave Mustaine (singer-guitarist of Megadeath) to to treat, it is too serious this guy. ā
Some time later, he will be contacted by Paul to join an even more obscure called SlipKnoT group.
Outside of the group, Joey is involved in various side projects, the most successful of which is Murderdolls, a punk / glam band in which he is a guitarist and with whom he released an album. one owes the magnificent tribal S and as well as the logo of the group. SlipKnoTās capital K is due to the fact that at the time he drew it Joey was a mega-fan of Korn.
Name: Paul Dedrick Gray
Position: bass, vocal backing
N Ā° 2
Nickname: Porky or Balls
Born April 8, 1972, Paul is the only member of SlipKnoT who is not originally from Des Moines.
Born in Los Angeles, he followed his family when they moved to Iowa. Paul is one of the creators of the group along with Shawn.
Very discreet and yet very influential, he played with Joey in Anal Of Blast and in various other groups before creating SlipKnoT. He had moved back to Los Angeles when Shawn asked him to come back one evening because he had an extra project he couldnāt miss.
He died at the age of 38 on May 24, 2010 of an overdose.
Name: Chris Fhen
Position: percussion, vocal backing
N Ā° 3
Nickname: Pornochio or Mr Piklenose
Born February 24, 1972 in Des Moines, Chris is the little comic of the group. Always playing the puppet, he does everything to be noticed and is happy to go on stage. Chris is one of the last to join SlipKnoT. He joined the group after Brandon left and his integration was not without difficulty ā¦ for him. Shawn called him in for a rehearsal in which he had to prove himself. After two hours of playing, the group reunites in the garden while Chris, alone at the other end, paces. After letting him run around in circles for thirty minutes, Shawn finally waved him over and said, āSorry man, youāre not up to par.ā Annoyed, Chris lowered his nose and said, āOkay, itās okay guys,ā turning on his heels.
This is the moment that Joey chooses to say to him, āWeāre kidding, man! Ā», Before bursting out laughing with the rest of the group. But that was just a little taste of what to expect.
Heās the one we hear vomiting on the hidden SlipKnoT track while Paul laughs beside him. This memorable streak was actually Chrisā initiation into the āSlipKnoT spiritā, the others having forced him to watch a hardcore movie.
Chris played an important role in the recording and mixing of SlipKnoT. He helped Ross Robinson and Joey with the post-production work. Ross Robinson says of him, āChris is a great guy. He really has his heart set on his feet. ā
Name: James Root
Position: guitar
N Ā° 4
Nickname: The Peach
Born October 2, 1971, James (or Jim) is the giant of the group, dominating the situation of his 1.90 m. He joined the group at the end of the recording of SlipKnoT as a starting point for the previous guitarist, Josh. Prior to being a part of SlipKnoT, James was playing in Atomic Opera and Deadfront with which he released an album and was about to record another when Joey called on him.
The latter explains: āJames was one of the best guitarists in Des Moines. With Atomic Opera, they were by far the leaders of the Iowa metal scene. And then I knew the guy, he had the job profile. He also stars in Stone Sour.
Name: Craig Jones
Position: sample
N Ā° 5
Nickname: 133 mhz (we nickname him like that because heās crazy about machines and 133 times 5 plus 1 equals 666)
Born February 11, 1973, āThis guy is definitely the most crossed out of the nine. He never says anything and thatās what gives me the fuck. It is there and yet we forget it. Having said that, itās better if he doesnāt say anything. The only time he opened it we had nothing but shit. This is how Craig is described by Ross Robinson. This is hardly flattering but nevertheless very true: Craig is the āghostā of the group, always the last to arrive on stage and the first to leave.
He joined SlipKnoT as a guitarist to replace Donnie Steele. He will prove himself during the recording of Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat .. He also contributed to the ambiences with his samples, which really impressed Shawn in addition to his performance on the guitar.
Seeing his mad passion for machines and computers, Joey and Shawn decided to promote him and integrate him full time into SlipKnoT. In three weeks, Craig went from replacement guitarist to official sampler of the band.
Name: Shawn Michael Crahan
Position: percussion, vocal backing
N Ā° 6
Nickname: Clown or Kong
Born September 24, 1969, Shawn is at the same time the leader, the pillar and the dean of the group. SlipKnoT is her baby. It was he who chose who would be part of the adventure and that from the start. Before joining SlipKnoT, he set up various groups which were only successful with critics.
Unable to live on his music, he then manages with the means on board. He was first hired as a welder (this experience would later be used for the creation of drum-kits). The savings he made enabled him to buy the Hairy Mary Club, a bar in Des Moines called to become the SlipKnoTās lair for a few years.
As a wise businessman, he will regularly organize metal evenings in his club and the Saturday night concerts will quickly become an institution in Des Moines for any metal and rock fan. It is during this period that SlipKnoT is formed. The future members of the group all hanging out regularly in the club, convincing them to play together will not be very difficult.
Next is the recording of Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. Which costs Shawn all his savings and pushes him into heavy debt.
He sells the Hairy Mary Club to repay his debts, before the scale gained by SlipKnoT allows him little by little to live on music.
The Hairy Mary Club having been sold, the group had no room to rehearse, and it was only natural that Shawn put his family to
contribution: SlipKnoT invests in his parentsā cellar. They spent almost two years there, Ross Robinson came to see them rehearse before signing them on his label. It was also in his parentsā garage that the photo was taken that served as the cover for SlipKnoT (album).
Married with four children, Shawn is a very cultured person; he adores CĆ©zanne and Picasso, which contrasts quite a bit with the image of the slightly psychotic Clown that we see at concerts (I confirm). He also likes to philosophize about life around a bottle of wine, which makes tell Corey, āShawn is a very smart guy, even if you donāt always understand what heās saying. ā
Name: Michael Thompson
Position: guitar
No. 7
Nickname: Log
Born November 3, 1973, Mick spent his childhood in Des Moines. Big fan of music, his tastes range from Jimi Hendrix to the Beatles through Morbid Angel and Deicide. He joined a group for the first time at the age of sixteen. Subsequently, he is part of various formations with the future members of SlipKnoT, but seeing that it is hard to make a living, he decides to give guitar lessons. It was then that one evening, taking advantage of Donnieās departure, Paul called him and asked him to join SlipKnoT.
āI was really pissed off at that time. When Paul called me I jumped at the chance, āsays Mick to explain his arrival in the group. Outside the group, Mick is a very discreet person; he describes himself as a person who likes to live at night.
Name: Corey Taylor
Position: Vocals
N Ā° 8
Nickname: Faith or The Sickness
Born December 8, 1973, Corey is in a way the guru of the maggots. His singing, his tone of voice and his charisma (I also confirm) make him a unique singer in the metal scene. Corey initially wanted to be a drummer but decided to write songs after listening to Screaming Life by Soundgarden and Bleach by Nirvana.
Born of an unknown father, (but now we know who he is) he lived for a long time with his mother and his sister, traveling the North-East of the USA and sometimes (even often) finding himself homeless to sleep. Completely addicted to cocaine from the age of fifteen, he overdoses twice. The second made him realize the fragility of life and he went to settle in Ohio with his grandmother, to be far from his bad company. It was there that he developed a taste for music thanks to his grandmotherās record who listened to rock ānā roll and in particular Elvis Presley, of whom he became a very big fan.
At eighteen, he chose to take his independence and return to the roads to finally return to his hometown of Des Moines. There, he assembles the group Stone Sour, with which he begins to record some titles. On several occasions, his path crosses the path of the members of SlipKnoT. And it is finally after a Stone Sour concert that Corey sees Joey, Mick and Shawn unload in the sex shop where he works. Corey sums it up in a few words:
āBasically, they told me that if I didnāt join their group they would give me my birthday. I admit I hesitated a little but finally I said to myself that it was the right choice for me. ā
Corey is very involved in songwriting; his difficult childhood is a source of inspiration for him. However, he refuses to talk too much about it. In early 2004, he married Scarlet, his long-time fiancƩe, with whom he had a son, eighteen months earlier.
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