In a brand new interview with Drummer’s Evaluation, former SLIPKNOT drummer Jay Weinberg mirrored on his mindset and strategy to enjoying with the band when he first joined SLIPKNOT in late 2013 because the alternative for the group’s founding drummer Joey Jordison. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I feel approaching music, whether or not it is in purely the creation of it or coming right into a venture that exists and understanding the historical past and respecting the historical past, these are all vastly essential issues to me. To be within the current second and enjoying what’s impressed, but additionally whenever you’re tasked with respecting that previous, it is at occasions, perhaps a high-quality line to experience. However I feel for those who, in your coronary heart, have the proper mindset and the strategy of eager to strategy issues with respect… And within the case of SLIPKNOT, a big a part of that was approaching issues in a fan-first kind of perspective. I knew that to respect such materials meant not approaching it 99 p.c or much less. And that meant approaching it with 100% tenacity, focus, drive, respect. These have been all of the issues that I form of stored in thoughts.”
He continued: “I do not actually suppose I’ve ever discovered myself in a state of affairs the place I’ve wanted to strategy it with lower than 100% of any of these issues. However I feel, in a sure manner, to respect the state of affairs at hand, it actually required pulling no punches and simply going for it to the fullest extent attainable. After which that kind of morphed into different issues, as a result of then it was a matter of being… I imply, we began enjoying collectively and the very subsequent day we began engaged on new materials collectively. So in the midst of a day, to shift from that fan-first perspective to then form of crossing a threshold as a co-creator and collaborator and all these kinds of issues, you form of need to make a change in your head. Particularly in the case of making new materials for myself, and this even goes on from file to file, you utterly ignore the previous. And even within the occasion of our second file collectively, it was a matter of utterly ignoring what we had simply executed. Despite the fact that I used to be tremendously pleased with that effort, that did not come into focus in any respect whenever you’re engaged on new stuff. So there’s form of this like inner form of switch-around of development and one thing that you just checked out a technique utterly in a brand new manner and retaining tempo. And never simply retaining tempo, however hopefully accelerating the event of latest songs and new materials and contributing in a roundabout way the place, like I stated, if I can authentically signify no matter it’s that I am being requested to do, to push one thing, to be the very best that it may be, then my focus is on that completely. And in an occasion like that, it does require not being timid, not being shy, though your instincts, you would be forgiven for approaching something, particularly of a measurement like that, you would be forgiven for approaching one thing with shyness or no matter. However that is not the duty at hand. The duty at hand is to knock down each single door in entrance of you. So, yeah, that is form of how I have a look at conditions like that.”
Throughout an look on a July 2024 episode of the “One Life One Probability With Toby Morse” podcast, Weinberg addressed his shock firing from SLIPKNOT in November 2023, saying: “Reality be instructed, I am at form of some extent the place I am not fairly but actually prepared to speak about it, actually. And that is to not dismiss the dialog, however I’ve hung out, and spend time, simply processing your entire expertise. And the expertise not being the final six months, however actually the final 10 years [of playing with SLIPKNOT]. And eventually, in a manner, processing all of that. And doing it in form of what I’d contemplate the accountable manner.
“I’ve a unbelievable therapist who helps me,” he continued. “Earlier than I communicate on it, it is essential for me to do the proper work of processing these occasions that you just spend 10 years solely dedicated to at least one factor. There’s quite a bit to course of that on the opposite facet. And I feel there’s undoubtedly a time the place I am going to communicate to my lived expertise over these ten years — simply not fairly but.”
On November 5, 2023, SLIPKNOT launched an announcement through social media during 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 unique 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 ultimate 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 have been enjoying drums and bass on their tour, although their identities have 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 Sort” 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 shaped greater than three a long time in the past by Robert Trujillo alongside Robert‘s then-SUICIDAL TENDENCIES bandmate Muir.
