Throughout an look on a current episode of the Make It Good podcast, former SLIPKNOT and present SUICIDAL TENDENCIES drummer Jay Weinberg spoke in regards to the outpatient process he underwent in November 2023 to restore the torn labrum of his left hip and shave down a misshapen a part of his femur. The Nashville-based musician had the operation two weeks after SLIPKNOT introduced that he was not a member of long-running Iowa-based group.
“In regards to the summer time of 2018, I’d go on a run and I used to be in debilitating ache,” Weinberg stated. “I came upon that I had a misshapen bone, my femur going into my left hip. I had extra bone on one facet of it, so, unbeknownst to me, till the ache and the irritation began attending to me, it had torn my labrum. So I tore my labrum and simply wished to child it and defend it. ‘Trigger it did not hassle me once I was drumming; it was solely bothering me once I ran, actually. And once I was youthful, I had performed kickboxing and stuff, and I am positive that that movement did not do me any favors. However anyway, so it was summer time of 2018, I would go for a run and I would have ache. However then I had a surgical procedure to right it [in] November [2023].”
Requested what the therapeutic time for him was, Jay stated: “I used to be given 5 to 6 months. I would be mainly on the sofa for a few month, month and a half, all whereas doing bodily remedy. I used to be in bodily remedy the subsequent day. However, yeah, it was all proper. It was my first expertise with a surgical procedure like that.”
As for whether or not he was involved that the surgical procedure might negatively have an effect on his drumming capacity, Weinberg stated: “I feel anyone, naturally, if you embark on, like, ‘Okay, I am doing this corrective factor,’ you do it understanding that there is not any assure that you simply’re gonna have the identical mechanics as you knew them to be earlier than you probably did this.”
Jay went on to say that he feels “nice” now. “I am glad I did it,” he stated. “I closely researched my physician who was gonna do it. And it was years of planning to enter having that surgical procedure. And I am actually glad that I did it.”
On November 5, 2023, SLIPKNOT launched an announcement by way of social media through which it stated it had “determined to make a artistic choice and to half methods with Jay.”
Six days later, Weinberg, who changed Joey Jordison, SLIPKNOT‘s authentic drummer, in 2013, shared on Instagram that he “was heartbroken and blindsided to obtain the cellphone name”, “the information of which, most of you realized shortly after.”
Jay performed his remaining present with SLIPKNOT on November 3 on the Hell & Heaven competition in Toluca, Mexico.
Jay found SLIPKNOT when he was a pre-teen, by means of his father. He was hooked instantly and was an enormous fan of SLIPKNOT by the point he was invited to Los Angeles to check out as alternative for Joey Jordison in 2013.
For the primary few months after the discharge of 2014’s “.5: The Grey Chapter”, the members of SLIPKNOT had declined to call the musicians who had been taking part in drums and bass on their tour, although their identities had been revealed as Weinberg and bassist Alessandro “Vman” Venturella by a disgruntled former drumtech for SLIPKNOT who posted an image of a backstage name sheet on Instagram.
“.5: The Grey Chapter” went on to attain a trio of Grammy nominations, together with two for “Finest Steel Efficiency” and a nomination for “Finest Rock Album”.
Weinberg additionally performed on 2019’s “We Are Not Your Form” and 2022’s “The Finish, So Far”, each of which topped Billboard‘s rock albums chart.
In February 2024, SLIPKNOT recruited former SEPULTURA drummer Eloy Casagrande because the alternative for Jay.
Previous to becoming a member of SLIPKNOT, Jay performed with AGAINST ME! and MADBALL.
Jay performed his first live performance with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES in March 2023 in Osaka, Japan.
Along with Weinberg and frontman Mike Muir, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES‘ present lineup options lead guitarist Dean Pleasants, rhythm guitarist Ben Weinman (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN) and bassist Tye Trujillo (son of METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo).
Weinberg‘s pairing with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES got here lower than two months after he was introduced as the brand new drummer of INFECTIOUS GROOVES, the long-running outfit fashioned greater than three many years in the past by Robert Trujillo alongside Robert‘s then-SUICIDAL TENDENCIES bandmate Muir.
