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Slipknot interview - Reading Festival, August 2000 (Transcription)

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August 2000 Interviewer is Jody Thompson JODY: I'm here with Joey and Jim from Slipknot. Hi guys.  JOEY: Hullo JIM: Hello. JODY: How does it feel to be playing Reading Festival? The last day, arguably the best festival in the UK this year? JOEY: A dream come true, literally. I mean, we're from America, so we have always seen it on TV. It's been like a big thing. You know, America always televises it, and MTV covers it, so we've always known about it. So it's a dream come true to play here actually.  JODY: And what's it like to actually be above the bill of other bands like Rage Against The Machine, who are usually way up there in The States? JIM: That's uh, kind of a freaky thing. You know, it's weird playing after a band like Rage. I mean, they have accomplished so much, and they have done so many things, you know, and they've got great fuckin' records out, so it's hard to imagine playing after a band like that, you know, but we're going...
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Muse (Interview 1999) - transcription

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c.1999 *STUDIO SETTING* MATTHEW: Hi, we're called Muse. This song is called "Sunburn." (SUNBURN plays) DOMINIC: My name's Dominic, and I play the drums in Muse.  MATTHEW: My name's Matthew, and I sing and play guitar. CHRISTOPHER: My name's Chris, and I play the bass. (SUNBURN cont) MATTHEW: In school we were about sixteen, in an art lesson. And someone, I think it was one of our teachers, said something about 'Muses'. And we didn't know what it meant, so we looked it up in the dictionary and thought, 'That's a good name'. But the main reason is because it's only four letters in the word, when you put it on a poster it looks big. Bigger than all the other bands. Four letter name. Short names are good.  (SHOWBIZ CONT) Ry Cooder (remind you of anyone?) MATTHEW: I started doing music when I was very young, about the age of thirteen. I used to play a lot of um, Spanish guitar. I learnt a lot of Spanish guitar. I grew my nails so I could...
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Plug in Baby

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Guitarist (Issue 225)  July 2002  "Amp-wise I'm using Marshall JCM 2000s" says Matt. "I usually have one on the side of the stage mic'd up, and another onstage that I use for feedback. I just use one two-channel amp, one full on. A lot of people switch between channels for crunch sounds or clean sounds but I tend to stick to one channel 90 per cent of the time, which is volume on full, with the gain really low. You get this really attacking, clean sound which I use quite a lot. I'm actually involved in the new amp Marshall are building. It's not a signature - I'm not famous enough for that - but the sound is something I like".  
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KNOT'S LANDING

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Sunday World (Dublin)  Sunday 5th June 2005 Cory says not having a dad screwed him up SLIPKNOT frontman Cory Taylor reveals that he's screwed up because he never had a dad in his life.   In an exclusive interview, Taylor tells Remix; "I grew up not knowing my father, whose family were Irish. That was a huge f**king issue for me.   "Now that I've got kids I miss them so badly when I'm on tour. I'm prone to outbursts of stupid crying and it's not a very manly thing to do."  Cory has a step-daughter aged six, as well as a two year old son. "My little boy, man, he's so there." Taylor says with obvious price. "He's got so much personality. He freaks me out."   The caring side of Taylor is not the image people have of outrageous group Slipknot. "Oh, I don't give a f*** what people think about this image. We are real people at the end of the day. When we take of the masks it's just us," he responds.  Stage masks ...
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"Only One Guitar Has What It Takes! Introducing the Mick Thomson Signature Model"

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  (Guitar Magazine - March 2002)
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Slipknot's craziest member? Meet Sid Wilson (Unmasked & Unhinged)

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Get On The Bus c.April 2026 SLIPKNOT SID: So everyone else, I think...we weren't all born in Des Moines, but we grew up there. Paul went there as an adolescent. Um, but he was, you know, he went there when he...I think he was already in his teens, or close to it. So, he already had a good sense of who he was, and what kind of music he liked by the time he went to Iowa, and he had that LA influence. So, he already knew he was like 'the DJ is what's up'. We need a DJ. And he'd seen me scratching. So, he was just like 'this is amazing'. And then everyone, they started talking to and asking, like 'who...who do we get for a DJ?'. Everyone was like, 'Sid'.   Q: Right SID: 'Sid's the guy'. You know, so I don't know. I just...I..it just happened like that. You know what I mean? I went over there, and some of the guys, were like 'I don't know', cuz they were just like straight metal heads. But once I started jamming with th...
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Rockers Muse to play in Ulster

Belfast Telegraph  Thursday 12th February 2004 BRIT-NOMINATED rockers Muse are to play the Ulster Hall in Belfast on Saturday February 21, it has been confirmed.   The band's third album, Absolution, sold well over 750,000 copies.   After releasing albums Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, Muse performed at the Reading and Leeds festivals in 2002 before returning to their own studio in East London to record their third.   Singer/Songwriter Matt Bellamy, whose father was in legendary 60s band The Tornadoes, explains the thinking behind Muse.   "I don't really know many English bands that do rock music of a relatively modern nature, and I think that we're definitely trying to, not necessarily go against it, but prove that there is a lot more to it," he said.   Tickets to see Muse, priced £22.50 go on sale this Saturday, February 14th from Virgin and usual Ticketmaster outlets.  (Maureen Coleman) Link to original article (subscriptio...
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