SLIPKNOT INTERVIEW
     Docks, Hamburg 29.01.2002

    ..... dummerweise schon wieder eine Stunde zu spät. Mist !  Kam uns doch der ätzende Feierabend-
    Stau und ein kleines Stückchen marokanischer Bobel dazwischen, rechtzeig vor dem DOCKS zu sein. 
    Doch problemlos kommen Werner und ich zu unserem erhofften SLIPKNOT Date mit Sänger Corey. 
    Die and`ren Zines scheinen gerade mit ihren Interviews fertig zu sein und in Anbetracht der etwas
    entmutigten Gesichter der abziehenden Interviewer beim Verlassen und Corey`s Blick in unsere
    verpeilten Augen lassen ein witziges Gespräch erhoffen. Er ist total besoffen und versteckt seine 
    roten Augen nicht wie sonst, unter seiner Dreadlock-Kopfgummimaske sondern ganz lässig hinter 
    einer verflucht coolen Ray Ben.... (ich wäre so gerne auch Rockstar......)

High Corey, we are not very good prepared to this interview.  Is there something special you would like to talk about ? Corey (vocals): Just ask me everything you fuckin`want to know… I know that you come from a very rural area. Very, very, very rural. Very farm based, very rolling country side. A basic peace of shit. Fucking cities. It`s ok. It is a kind of quartered off from the rest of the world. That was really the fuel behind  this band. We always knew what we wanted to do. We knew how we could do it. It was the hardest work I ever did in my life, but we did it. Now I am sitting in Hamburg, talking to you guys. It is great fucking feeling.

    Lets talk about your image. It is a certain point that deals with slipknot. How important 
    is that to you ?

    Our image was never primary to slipknot. It was always secondary. The music was 
    always first. We never took our mask and started to practice. We came up as normal 
    people and worked on the music. The music gets a whole new meaning when you put 
    on the cover masks and play live for people. We knew that we could do 
    anything to the music, people would still look at the masks. But that is bullshit! 
    I mean, you can go to any fucking concert you want. You can see the most boring 
    piece of shit fucking band on the planet. But if you get that one song, dude, that opens 
    you up- you can`t fuck with that, you can`t touch that…. Especially when we mean 
    everything that we say in every minute of every fucking day.

    How do you work on your music ? There are nine people…..

    I know, there is a lot of people in the band. It is a lot easier than you think. Because there 
    are so many people, your ideas are coming from all over the place. You have always to 
    compromise at the same time you create it. Songs can grow up in different directions. 
    That`s why it is so fucking interesting to listen to it. It is fucking great shit. 
 
 
 

But there must be a certain connection     between all this different people.      Just one thing that connects  you all ?     We just dig what we write. I cant`t think of     two greater guitar players than fucking     James and Mick; I can`t think of a fucking     greater drummer than Joey; I can`t think     of two greater fucking performers and     percussionists than Chris and Shawn;      I can`t think of a better DJ on this fucking     planet than Sid, I can`t think of a more     cracy and more serial killer guy than     Craig, I can`t think of better fucking     bass player that lays it down than Paul.     It is just the fact of being a fan of     everyone who deals with this     fucking band. I can`t talk for     anybody else…..

    And you always have the biggest crew when you come up…..

    ALWAYS !!! It is fucking insane dude, but at the end of the day the majority of this 
    people came out of my town or were with us from the beginning. It is a giant family 
    going out on the road to share adventures. 
    It sounds like a lot of fun.

    It can be. Sometimes it is pain in the ass, but a lot of times you can`t touch that sense that 
    you are there. It doesn`t matter how impossible the doubts , the walls, the problems are, 
    you are there and it is happening. At the end of the day all these kids will walk away from this 
    show feeling like they were part of something special. And if you do this, everything else 
    comes second. If you are not happy, nobody else is happy…..i am pretty fucking happy 
    right now ! I am completely drunk right now. I can guarantee you now that you will see a 
    show that you`ve never been seen before tonight ! (ja, wie auch…?)

    Is there something special happen tonight ?

    Let`s say it this way: We will deviate from the setlist. And it may not be as long as people 
    want. But I will something special and fucking huge. Something the people will remember. 

    jonas.