Who Are Slipknot You Ask..?? Here Are Profiles On them
Name: Sid Wilson
Nickname:"Monkyboy"
Number: 0
E-Mail: 0@Slipknot2.com, sid@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the DJ.
*He suffers from 'organic brain syndrome'
*He's in a fight with #6. On the Wait and bleed video (and live) , they can be seen brawling.
*He is the youngest at 22 yrs
*Joey describes Sid as a "ladie's man"
*Sid's family is from England.
*Sid is the crowdsurfer of the band. He's not the only member that does, but he'll do some crazy shit.
Mask: He has 8-9 different gasmasks. He gives them each names.
Instrument:
2 Technics SL1200MKII Turntables
Sony MDR-V700DJ Headphones
Rane 10" TTM4 mixer / Roland DJ 1000 10" mixer
Shure M447 Cartridges (needles)
Joey Jordison (1)
Name: Joey Jordison
Nickname:"Superball"
Number: 1
E-Mail: 1@Slipknot2.com, joey@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*Real name: Nathan Jonas Jordison.
*He's the lead drummer
*He's the shortest
*He was one of the original members of Slipknot, and drummed for MFKR
*He was in the band Anal Blast before joining.
*He's the most talkative of the group.
*He created the term 'Maggot', (a Slipknot fan).
*He writes a lot of their songs, including Scissors.
*He mixed the self titled album.
*He's the most talkative member.
*Joey attained the nickname "Superball" after one show that Slipknot played horrible in, so he got mad and started "bouncing around the room".
*He has an obsession with Fiona Apple.
Mask: Joey wears an expressionless Japanese Kabuki mask, some blank and some with scars painted across the forehead and mouth. He cuts off the arm and leg sleeves of the Slipknot outfit so he can move more freely while drumming. Why he chose his mask: "My mom had that type of mask and one time when I came home really late, she was waiting for me. She came around the corner in the mask on and this robe- it scared the living fuck out of me"
Instrument:
Custom Orange County Percussion
Zildjian Cymbols
Paul Gray (2)
Name: Paul Gray
Nickname:???
Number: 2
E-Mail: 2@Slipknot2.com, paul@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the bassist
*He's co-founder of the group, along with Shawn(#6)
*He burned a picture of Korn posing for Calvin Klein in Teen People on- stage.
*He was one of the original members of Slipknot.
*He was not born in Des Moines Iowa, like the rest of the band. Paul was born in Los Angeles, CA and moved to Des Moines when he was young.
*He's half black.
*He was in the bands VexX , Body Pit, Anal Blast, and Inveigh Catharsis before Slipknot
Mask: Paul has two masks: The tight, normal one that tends to look like a beaver, and the loose, more pig- oriented one. He says it reflects his indulgent personality.
Instrument:
Warwick Corvette Bass
Carvan Eden WT Head
Ampeg 8X10 Cab
Chris Fehn (3)
Name: Chris Fehn
Nickname:"Mr.Picklenose"
Number: 3
E-Mail: 3@Slipknot2.com, chris@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*Chris is the co- drummer and first percussionist.
*Chris has a habit of "jacking" off his nose. He can be seen doing it in many interviews, the Spit It Out video, and on Conan O'Brien.
*He is the comedic member of the band.
*He can be heard puking in the bonus track of Slipknot.
*Rolling Stone describes him as the most "handsome, wholesome" member of the band.
*Many speculations prove that previous "member" Cuddles was indeed Chris in disguise.
Mask: Chris wears a Pinnochio- like mask with a 7 1/2 inch nose and a zipper for a mouth. "It hurts. And that goes along with the aggression we create."
Instrument:
Drums are made from Titianium (space shuttle material), and I believe Shawn made them (he was formally a welder).
2 mounted toms
1 floor tom
1 bass drum turned on it's side
1 empty steel beer keg
James Root (4)
Name: James Root
Nickname:"The Peach"
Number: 4
E-Mail: 4@Slipknot2.com, james@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*James plays Guitar for the band.
*James was the last to Join Slipknot.
*At 6'6, "Jim" towers over his 6'2 guitarist counterpart, Mick, who is beleived to be the tallest.
*His real hair color is brown.
*He is more oftenly called Jim.
*Previous to Slipknot, James was in the bands Dead Front and Atomic Opera.
Mask: Actually, more than one mask. James was forced into wearing a stiffling bondage hood when he joined the group to tame him. This same exact type of hood was worn by the member he replaced, Josh. However when Slipknot played, sweat would be trapped inside the mask so he made a Jester- like mask to reflect on his Jester- like personality. It has a zipper for a mouth and a spike for a chin. It is smelly and disgusting, and he claims that everyone gets pissed at him because the mask stinks up the whole house.
Instrument:
Jackson JD-R Pro Dinky Reverse
Mesa Boogie Head
2 Carvan 4X12 Cabs
Craig Jones (5)
Name: Craig Jones
Nickname:"133mHz"
Number: 5
E-Mail: 5@Slipknot2.com, 133@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the sampler.
*He is married.
*He's the brains behind the opening track from Slipknot's new album, 742617000027.
*He originally joined the band as a guitarist.
*Him and his wife run Slipknot1.com.
*He leaves shows early to maintain his anonymity.
*He feels isolated and independant.
*He maintains the official site.
*He is a computer game freak, his screen name when playing Quake 3 Arena online is ZZ 5. He even has his own "Slipknot member" skin, so it looks just like him when he plays.
*At photo shoots, he wears leather covering his eyes from being seen, and prefers not to take part in any interviews, to remain anonymous.
*He gets most of his samples from movies. For example, in (sic), he got the "here comes the pain" part from the movie Carlito's Way.
Mask: Craig wears a diver's helmet that he found at a gas station. He put the "spikes" through it himself using tape. The "spikes" are really nails. Contrary to popular beleif, the old mask he wore had the flashlight at the top and but the new one doesn't. The new modifications include more white at the top, and no tube hanging out the bottom.
Instrument:
Yamaha controller
Yamaha PSR 720
Roland JP8000
AKAI MPC2000XL sampler
Nord Lead Synth or a Yamaha Crsx-7 for 74126000027
Shawn Crahan (6)
Name: Shawn Crahan
Nickname:"Kong"
Number: 6
E-Mail: 6@Slipknot2.com, shawn@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the second percussionist, along with Chris.
*He was a welder before joining the group, and he welded his own drums.
*He has a wife, Chantal, and 3 kids.
*He is co- founder of the group, along with Paul.
*He has a drumkit made of titanium.
*He does most of the interviews.
*He runs slipknot2.
*He has a habit of banging his head against walls.
*He has fractured knuckles, split a collarbone, suffered slipped vertebrae, bruised his pelvic bone, dislocated a shoulder, gotten a concussion, partially severed a finger, and smashed his head often enough to require 22 stitches during performances.
*Has been arrested several times.
*Sometimes he goes on AIM and chats with fans.
*From what I hear, he is by far the craziest member of Slipknot.
*It is confirmed that Shawn will switch masks for the next album, and it will definitaly be a clown mask.
*He named his mask "Dude".
*He is 30 years old, the oldest of Slipknot
Mask: Shawn found the mask one day on the clearance counter of a store,so he bought it. Shawn was the first in the group to wear a mask. He wore it to practice one day and the group thought it was tight , so they all started wearing them to rehearsal. Shawn was actually the first member of the band to wear coveralls. Before they all wore identical outfits, Shawn wore white coveralls with paint splattered on them.
Instrument:
Drums are made from Titianium (space shuttle material)
2 mounted toms
1 floor tom
1 bass drum turned on it's side
1 empty steel beer keg
Mick Thompson (7)
Name: Mick Thompson
Nickname:"Log"
Number: 7
E-Mail: 7@Slipknot2.com, number7@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the second Guitarist, along with James.
*He is a "night person".
*He's a fan of serial killers, and loves cats.
*His previous job was teaching guitar lessons, which he still does to this day.
*Before Slipknot wore coveralls, Mick dressed up as Little Bo Peep.
*Many speculations prove that previous Slipknot member Grouch was indeed Mick, just with a different mask.
Mask: Mick has two masks. The first was a green painted modified hockey mask, and the second is a metallic leather mask.
Instrument:
Custom B.C. Rich Warlock with "H-A-T-E" inlays
Ibanez RG470 (1998-2000, discontinued playing it live)
Rack Head Unit
2 Carvan 4X12 Cabs
Corey Taylor (8)
Name: Corey Taylor
Nickname:"The Sickness" And "Faith"
Number: 8
E-Mail: 8@Slipknot2.com, corey@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the lead singer.
*He prefers the nickname"Faith".
*He's loud as shit onstage, but offstage he's very calm and down to earth.
*Before Slipknot wore coveralls, Corey dressed in a preist outfit.
*He was in the band Stone Sour before Slipknot.
Mask: A crash dummy mask. The dreads on them are partially his real hair wrapped in twine which he sewed on after being pissed from having to pull it through the little holes on the top, and a scalp infection. I hear his mask is supposed to represent a scarecrow.
Instrument:
Shure SM58 mics.
BAND BIO
Biography
Rarely since the fiery crash of Buddy Holly's plane in 1959 have the words "Iowa" and "rock and roll" been used in the same sentence. As we've come to know it, Iowa means corn, livestock, conservatism, and precious little else. And like a thousand other landlocked heartland nowheres, it brims with kids dying from boredom, and with small-minded politicians trying to keep their little slice of Americana quaint, quiet, and soul-crushingly sterile. But the kids aren't all right - they're getting pissed.
And in Des Moines, their rage has a name: Slipknot. Draped in Ed Gein-style coveralls and nightmarishly surreal masks, touting a sound patched from the best parts of metal, hip hop, violent L.A.-style "new metal," and armed with a multidimensional percussive onslaught the weight of a hundred Neubautens, you could call Slipknot equal parts style and substance. You could also call it payback time for Middle America.
In a recent Alternative Press cover story, drummer Joey explained the band's vitriolic attack this way: "All of us were so used to having the middle finger thrown at us, that when we finally threw it back, we did so with ten times the venom."
And they hit a nerve in the process. Slipknot's self-titled Roadrunner album is nearing platinum status. Their home video, "Welcome to Our Neighborhood," has dominated Billboard's Top Ten since its release, and is already platinum. But that's just America. Australians have made the album gold and the video platinum, and the band continues to sell out gigs there - and throughout Europe and Japan too. Even grumpy old England -- notoriously intolerant of heavy American rock -- has chimed in with a Silver record and New Musical Express' declaration of Slipknot as "brilliant." Similar accolades can be found within recent cover stories in Alternative Press, Circus, Guitar World, Hit Parader and Metal Hammer, and the band has also been featured in Kerrang!, Metal Maniacs, Rolling Stone, and Spin, among others. To top it off, the tune "Wait and Bleed" (which the band performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien) has lately been rotating on MTV, KROCK NY, KROQ LA, LIVE 105 in San Francisco, WHFS Washington, DC, KNDD Seattle and so on. The video for the single has been officially added to MTV as well.
Surprised? Don't be. From the skull-pummeling "Sic" and unforgiving bludgeon force of "Surfacing," to the sublime melodicism of "Wait and Bleed," to the entrancing percussive drive of "Prosthetics," Slipknot's Ross Robinson-produced Roadrunner CD swarms with such dense instrumentation that you'd swear it was a whole symphony of sickos in command. And you'd be right: Slipknot is made up of nine native Iowans: DJ Sid (#0), drummer Joey (#1), bassist Paul (#2), percussionist Chris (#3), guitarist Jim (#4), sampler Craig (#5), percussionist Shawn (#6), guitarist Mick (#7), and vocalist Corey (#8). Nine guys, each with his own gruesome visual persona AND dehumanizing number. Sounds like a lot? Percussionist Shawn wouldn't have it any other way.
"Our music is so reliant on each other that if one guy is gone, it just wouldn't be our songs. Without one person, something is really, really missing. Everybody has to be present. Even the littlest things make our songs magical."
And it is about the songs, after all. While some visually oriented bands forget about that, the beast that is Slipknot, with its virally infectious sense of melody and explosive, percussion-driven backbone, knows its priorities well.
"We never put on the shit we wear to try to get people into us," says Joey. "We did because, after being degraded constantly for trying to play music or do something in Des Moines, it just came out to be like we were an anonymous entity. No one gave a fuck. No one cared, so we were never about our names or our faces; we're just about music."
Shawn concurs, but refuses to downplay the importance of the band's freakish, startling visuals. Or their pathological appeal.
"The masks are an extension of our personalities," he says. "Everybody's got a sort of tweaked, demented way about themselves, and we just alter the masks over time. It feels really, really good when we wear our masks for an hour and then take them off. The first thing we do is go, 'God, what a relief.' But we always seem to put them back on after a show."
Forming in mid-1995, Slipknot endured the necessary growing pains and lineup changes before arriving at what they now call "a family unit." Within a year, they'd recorded, self-released and self-distributed their debut, "Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat," which helped catch the fancy of more than a few big label suits. Eventually signing with Roadrunner via Ross Robinson's I AM RECORDS imprint, they recorded the explosive self-titled album and exported the horror to the outside world through a series of live shows that Shawn understates as simply "like nothing else out there." This included an exposure-grabbing stint on Ozzfest 1999 and a slew of sold-out shows with label-mates Coal Chamber.
Which brings us full-circle in a way. Because, in actuality, there was one other strange incident besides Buddy Holly's death in which "Iowa" and "rock and roll" could be uttered in the same breath before Slipknot: January 20, 1982, when Ozzy Osbourne bit the had off a bat during a gig in Des Moines. "We got the whole thing about the bat right in us," recalls Joey. "When we were little, we kept hearing about this guy named Ozzy biting the head off a bat. That was here in this town, and we've had a little bit of the bat in us ever since."
The heaviest band around could have no better teacher. And indeed, as Slipknot moves from a slot on last year's Ozzfest to the headline act at this summer's Tattoo the Earth and MTV Return of the Rock tours, one thing is clear as crystal meth: Corn ain't the only thing growing in America's heartland. Consider yourself warned, planet earth!
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