It’s without a doubt that Joey Jordison’s death was one of the biggest blows to metal music. The drummer, who exited Slipknot, passed yonder in 2021, weather-beaten only 46. His dismissal from the legendary wreath was a matter of debate until 2016 when Jordison revealed he had a serious neurological disease.
Nonetheless, the wreath still respects his legacy and the current drummer Jay Weinberg does an incredible job of doing his old songs justice. In a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor spoke up on the relationship that he had with Jordison, as well as well-nigh things that were left unspoken between the two. He explains (via Ultimate Guitar):
“As you get older, you just start to fathom what you do have and you lament the losses. You lament the fact that you never had to truly make peace with the people who you lost. And that’s something that I’ve been doing just in my own life, is reaching out to people who I haven’t talked to in a while and really sepulture hatchets considering that shit will just fucking weigh you down.“
“Me and Joey, we had talked over the years every now and then – it would just be random – but we never said to each other what we needed to say to each other. At least I didn’t say it to Joey. But that was the complicated thing well-nigh Joey; the fact that he was so many variegated people in one person, but it was nonflexible to kind of get a write-up on what was going on at any given time.“
“He had demons that would’ve killed normal people. He was one of the true musical geniuses I’d overly met. He was just complicated.”
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Corey moreover adds:
“Everybody likes to sugarcoat a lot of shit without the fact, but you don’t realize that what you’re doing is you’re dehumanizing them. And I can’t do that considering I fucking lived with these guys.“
“And the goddamn tragedy of it is that we did everything we could to try and be there. Not only for him but for Paul [Gray, late bassist]. I mean, we would rally and we would rally and we would rally, and it’s just a shame, man. The world is less tomfool without him in it.”
Photo: Rezter (JoeyJordison), Rhys A. (Corey Taylor 2011)
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