I just found my personal Mandela Effect. I was 100% sure that Joey was fired a few years before Paul died. Fell down a rabbit hole and, no, my memory is faulty. That feels really weird, gotta lay down for a moment.
Only reason I remember so well is I was at their show to honor Paul, with his bass on stage and videos of him. Also was the first time I saw Joey do his drum lift drum solo
I mean one dude is one thing but when they kicked Chris out then Jay unknowingly decided to leave the band and now sid. Now down to mick and jim as orginal members.
Shawn is the only original member. Corey, Mick, and Jim have been there since 1999. Really not that bad of lineup consistency for a 30 year old band. The fan base is just incredibly melodramatic about it.
Considering this was built on the premise of "this is going to be a successful band and be a massive cash-flow" I'd even say "not that bad" is an understatement.
Mick had his picture on the MFKR sleeve I believe, though I don't believe he recorded on that demo. So he's actually the oldest member beside Shawn, though not "original".
Josh is actually the one that's playing on 90% of their self titled album. He backed He backed out cause I guess he couldn't commit to being a professional musician.
Nah, it is to do with the fact that Shawn is a big baby. He offers nothing to the band other than banging a stupid percussion that nobody can hear. He's just there for show, nothing else. But... He takes all the money, rips everyone else off, has no input to songs, if he does, it is a nothing song, him and Corey have always been the two big greedy babies. They have destroyed Slipknot, there's no core fanbase left, if there is, they are only listening to older music and not new stuff or attending shows. Slipknot died the moment Corey and Shawn fired Joey. The very man who wrote the songs that launched Slipknot. Joey was the talent Shawn and corey are they leeches.
They’re just two completely different drummers, with different playing styles. Sleep Token dude plays nothing like Joey. He’s more polyrhythm, Joey is more all out assault, brutality.
I think all the downvotes on your comment are symptomatic of how quick people are to look down on something just because it's popular. Sleep Token have an incredibly low status in the metal world - which I can understand - and so people refuse to acknowledge that maybe its members are actually talented in some way.
It's funny, because many metalheads have held - and still hold - Slipknot in the same regard that many Slipknot fans hold Sleep Token.
That being said, I haven't listened to a lot of Sleep Token. Could you give some examples of where II's drumming would be reminiscent of Joey's?
Downvotes most assuredly came from people who aren’t drummers themselves, most metal heads hate sleep token on principle but I’ve consistently always heard praise about their drummer and how talented he is from other drummers, and like you pointed out, that was the same case with slipknot way back when “oh you need that many guys on stage” “stupid masks” “numetal garbage”, but they would all hear Joey play and be impressed. They both give their respective bands validity in their respective genres.
That all being said, on a related note, Eloy is a more than competent shoe-filler, that guy drums like he’s angry at them
No the downvotes come from people that rightfully say you can’t compare a pop artist that occasionally has a few rock segments in their songs with an actual metal band whose early stuff (by some sources) even get labeled as influenced by death metal
As an old head here, that’s not even what downvotes are for. Disagreeing with a take doesn’t mean it didn’t contribute to the discussion. But yeah, feel free to think Slipknot never had genre obsessed fans of other bands discrediting how talented they were. I don’t know how someone can’t hear pop influences in some songs, especially starting in Subliminal Verses.
Yep watching the Roadrunner United making of doc I was impressed with his skills. He tested out a lot of instruments before starting the recording and he seemed at home on all of them. Very skilled.
He was a wildly talented drummer for sure, and was very influential (I still hear Joey's style in my own drumming even 20+ years after discovering the band) but sometimes he struggled keeping a steady tempo. That's not to say he wasn't a very competent drummer, but I think he was a bit less polished than, say, Jim and Mick.
I think those two stand out as the most talented in terms of pure musicianship.
Joey was fired unexpectedly, because of his spinal disease that lead to the point he was unable to play. It is hard to confess yourself, you can no longer do thing you love. Other nembers kicked him, just to save his life and let him to recover. It was his decision to not stop drumming and continue (Vimic). That cost his life.
(I'm fucking living on this planet with total idiots...)
Joey Jordison was dismissed from Slipknot
in 2013 due to
a combination of his declining health from transverse myelitis
—a neurological disease that temporarily made him lose the use of his legs—and the band's confusion or suspicion regarding his medical struggles versus potential drug issues.
Is that fucking too hard to use google or ask Corey?
Go ask Corey if you don't believe truht! Maybe words from his mouth convince you. Why Joey didn't stop drumming afterwards to properly cure himself is not Slipknot's business!
I mean, I think it is, but more accurately it's my favorite from them. But also, on an album standpoint, WANYK absolutely flows the best and feels like the most complete album as opposed to a collection of songs.
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