On Tuesday, the news that Joey Jordison, slipknot’s founding drummer and co-writer of many of their biggest hits, died in his sleep shocked fans. Look back at our 2001 cover story to remember the band from 20 years ago.
Backstage, five-ninths of Slipknot lounge in their dressing room. Guitarist Jim Root plucks out Radiohead’s “Optimistic” on his guitar; percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan paces ceaselessly while talking on his cell phone. DJ Sid Wilson trims the lining out of his new, slightly ill-fitting mask and in the process cuts his finger badly. Craig Jones, the band’s ominously mute programmer, sits ominously, monitoring everyone.
Slipknot have elaborate pyrotechnics now, but they don’t need them. Sometimes they vomit from the heat and exertion; sometimes they kick and beat one another. They’ve destroyed enough equipment and sets that it became more cost-effective to build a stage of solid steel and drums of titanium. They’ve earned their rapidly growing fan base without marketing, radio or MTV play. The stage at Ozzfest is littered with Slipknot’s peers every night — artists these Iowans never imagined they’d befriend.
“Were the people in the first twenty rows on Valium?” Fehn asks, dropping his coveralls, changing into his other band persona: Naked Guy. “They were sitting there all spiritual and into it. What’s spiritual about ‘People=Shit,? ‘Oh, yes, that’s amazing. “People=Shit.”zzfest ’99 introduced the world to Slipknot. It was the end of a long journey for all of them: unsuccessful bands, unsatisfying day jobs and a culturally barren hometown. Crahan, the band’s twisted P.T.
Slipknot first toured Ozzfest with tweleve people in a bus that slept eleven. Economaki was the tech for all nine members. Now there are seven techs, four buses, two semis to haul the 50,000 pounds of gear and forty-two members in their party.
Big Mick relishes the challenge of weaving such a complex sonic blanket, calling Slipknot “a one-spliff band,” referring to how many he can smoke while working . “It is something new,” he says with a wink. “Samplers? What are those?”he crew has been at the venue since 6 A.M., but the band is still at the hotel — the Founders Inn. Unbeknownst to them, it’s connected to right-winger Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, whose headquarters are in Virginia Beach.
Thomson is a burly six-feet-four with long black hair and a beard. He looks like a lumberjack from Hades and is no friend on our Lord Jesus: “Generally I say whatever makes you happy, fine. But leave me the fuck alone. However, Christianity is a fucking blight on humanity. There is nothing sicker that this world has ever seen than organized religion. People give me shit, because I watch The 700 Club and Robert Tilton. Whatever. Know thy enemy.
Around the venue, homemade masks and coveralls dot the crowd. Just before and encore, the band plays “Spit It Out,” their most radio-friendly number to date, and Taylor engages in heavy-metal call-and-response: “OK, I want all of you fuckers to get the fuck down on the ground. Now!” The vast majority do, and it is a sight to see: from the front rows up to the top of the lawn, a crouching crowd. “Don’t get up,” Taylor commands. “Stay the fuck down, until I say jump.
Jordison punches the band’s security guard, a massive, very chuckly man named Smitty. A few girls hover nearby, giggling. They aren’t typical Slipknot groupies, who, according to Jordison, are “very quiet, seductive, goth bondage-looking chicks, always with black hair. A lot of them want you to have sex with them with the mask on. You know, if a girl is going to take her pants off that easily for you, who knows who she’s already been with. Probably Crazy Town.
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