SLIPKNOT Interview (MTV Australia) (Transcription)
(CROWD is chanting loudly "SLIPKNOT! SLIPKNOT")
WOMAN VJ: I have a whole stack of faxes here, and they are definitely not for us Andrew, they are for SLIPKNOT.
ANDREW: Slipknot...
WOMAN VJ: Slipknot, come on out...they are here! Here they are!!!
JOEY enters first, followed by SHAWN, and then COREY
(CROWD cheers loudly, JOEY can be heard saying something like "Fuck yeah". SHAWN starts slapping his (SHAWN'S) forehead. COREY ignores everyone to greet the crowd outside, JOEY runs to join him, and jumps briefly on the barrier, before walking around slapping hands. SHAWN, for some reason wearing a baseball cap, joins them. The noise is defeaning)
ANDREW (as everyone, except SHAWN, makes their way back into the studio): This is the coolest
WOMAN VJ: Wow...
(COREY and JOEY are now back in the studio, SHAWN is still outside)
WOMAN VJ: Hey..hang on...
(SHE adjusts something on JOEY, probably his mic, as COREY fist pumps to the audience who are chanting "SLIPKNOT", meanwhile SHAWN wanders back, now minus the hat)
SHAWN: Magic.
WOMAN VJ tries to hush the crowd. SHAWN and JOEY are very helpful in encouraging them.
ANDREW: So, I guess you like Australia then?
COREY: Oh..we LOVE IT IN AUSTRALIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
(Crowd cheers, SHAWN is pacing the studio ominously.)
JOEY: Scream. Give a scream to Australia.
COREY (blisteringly): YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!
ANDREW: So rocking. So you had a good time in Brisbane last night?
COREY: That was a great show, man. It was hot. It was crazy. Everybody was insane. And uh, we can't wait to do it again tonight.
JOEY: Man. It's going to be on.
WOMAN VJ: It's going to be huge. Are you all going to the ??? tonight?
(Crowd goes wild. Girl screams loudly "Slipknot". WOMAN VJ points and laughs)
ANDREW: Whave have these guys got to look forward to at tonight's gig?
JOEY (gesturing to the crowd): Oh, I think that says it for itself. Probably some of the craziest fans we've seen so far here. Those guys are insane.
(More loud crow cheers, camera cuts between Shawn, holding up his arm, and the crowd. JOEY and COREY make metal signs. More SLIPKNOT chants break out, encouraged by SHAWN and JOEY)
JOEY(?): Fuck yeah.
(Crowd chants "SLIPKNOT" while the camera cuts between JOEY and the crowd, COREY leans in to whisper something to him)
ANDREW: This is cool
WOMAN VJ: We've got so many faces here, with so many questions.
ANDREW: We've been flooded with fax, we've been flooded with e-mails. We've got loads of people on the phone, dying to ask you questions. Guys, some actually darted us in the chat room quickly, talking about the gigs, wanted to know would your gigs be the same without all nine people on stage?
COREY: No, definitely not.
JOEY: It's Slipknot.
WOMAN VJ (about SHAWN who is standing aside from the others, and on whom the camera has focused on): He's scaring me...
COREY: And uh, for whatever reason you know, we all came together. We've known each other for so long that we all came together and uh, brought the music out of our hearts instead of uh you know, just thinking about it.
ANDREW: It's uh, such a really emotional album. Is it the same on stage? More on stage? Obviously heaps more on stage.
COREY (distracted by the noise in the background, even JOEY is listening in): I'm sorry, what was that?
ANDREW: The album is like really full on emotionally. Like absolutely. On stage is it like, twenty times more, one hundred times more?
(SHAWN is holding his fist up to the crowd. The sound grows louder. Someone in the crowd screams)
COREY(?): Twice.
(NO ONE can hear because of the noise)
ANDREW: This is great...
WOMAN VJ: This is just...
COREY: It's twice as crazy on stage, just for the fact that uh, you can actually feel it, and we can feel the crowd uh going nuts right along with us man, and that's all we ask that everybody gets as crazy on stage as we are...
(After a momentary lull, the crowd starts cheering/screaming again)
WOMAN VJ: I can barely hear myself think...we've got lots and lots of faxes.."Who are your support tonight?"
COREY: Oh it's Aggression, yeah.
(SHAWN whispers something to COREY)
WOMAN VJ: Yeah, it's Aggression. That was from, um, Nick and John. Also Brad wants you to say "Happy Birthday" to him, he's your biggest fan.
COREY: Where's he at? Where's the camera at?
(COREY walks towards the camera and screams, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHHHHHHHNNNN!!!!". The crowd whistles and cheers)
WOMAN VJ: That was...there you go Brad...that must have been the best "Happy Birthday"...there's lots and lots of questions here, but I might even go out and see if there are any fans out there that want to ask you some questions?
(More blisteringly loud cheering)
WOMAN VJ: Oh hang on, hang on...
(COREY vanishes off quickly somewhere, motioning for something. SHAWN still is pacing. JOEY remains stationary with his hands behind his back)
ANDREW: You guys have to be quiet...
(Crowd starts chanting "SLIPKNOT")
WOMAN VJ: We have...
ANDREW: You guys have to be quiet
(CUT and COREY is back. CROWD is chanting "SLIPKNOT! SLIPKNOT! SLIPKNOT!")
ANDREW: We've Slipknot...with the added best street chorus. Everyone outside saying every single word...that was awesome, you guys just go around there and sign a whole bunch of stuff. You guys have to be quiet, just one second. Just be quiet, just one second.
(More cheers and screams)
ANDREW: Um, you can call your questions into us, 19022230..from Tasmania, um guys, Mark is on the phone from Tasmania. Mark, you there?
MARK: Yep.
ANDREW: Mark, speak up. It's pretty loud here.
MARK: Uh, yeah. Okay, then I'll try.
WOMAN: Go ahead, Mark.
MARK: Yeah. Um. I was just wondering un, if Slipknot will ever take their masks off*.
JOEY: I don't think that right now the fans want to see us any other way. And, uh, the reason that we wear these whole things, I mean, these kids have identified with it. So, right now, I don't see that we will be taking them off any times in the future, even remotely, so no.
ANDREW: Thanks for your call, Mark.
WOMAN VJ: Thanks Mark.
ANDREW: Thanks for calling. On the phone from Brisbane. Shane from Albany Creek. Shane, did you catch the show last night?
SHANE: I beg your pardon?
ANDREW: Did you catch the show last night?
SHANE: No.
COREY: Oh, bud. Come on, man.
(CROWD boos)
JOEY: That's all right...
COREY: That's all right. We'll be back soon. You know this.
ANDREW: Do you have a question, Shane?
SHANE: Yeah. Um. Hang on a minute...how did you all meet?
JOEY: We all grew up together, we all have known each other for like ten plus years, so uh when it came like, to form like a new sound, a new band, a new creative force within all of us, we all looked to each other and just like all came together and said "Let's push the envelope, search the deepest part of the brain, and create the band that we would like to see". We all grew up together, so that's how we met.
WOMAN VJ: Where did you grow up?
JOEY: Oh, all in the confines of Des Moines, Iowa.
COREY: Des Moines, Iowa...
ANDREW: "Confines", you speak like it's a prison
JOEY (firmly): It is.
ANDREW (chuckles): Really?
JOEY: Why do you think I used that word?
COREY: It's uh...the only place I know on earth where a sixteen year old, can feel like he's thirty-five, so...you know, it's kind of saying something for it.
ANDREW: Glad to hear that.
WOMAN VJ: Thanks, Shane! Thanks...uh...Joey...
JOEY:...Yes?
ANDREW: We got another phone in? (Holds ear monitor) No, we don't have another phone in, no.
WOMAN VJ: I've got a fax here from Damian in Victoria, and he wants to know, did you make your masks yourself? Because that's what it says in "Sweating Bullets".
COREY: Yeah...
(Someone screams LOUDLY and as if they are being attacked in the crowd)
COREY (cont): Yeah, we built them ourselves and uh...I don't think you could have something as personal if you went out and bought it new in a store. You know what I'm saying? These masks represent something that we feel in the music, and uh, we put a lot of blood, a lot of puke, a lot of snot into them. And uh, you can't cheese that. You can't go out...it's not storebought, man. It's something you got to feel inside, you got to release out. So...
ANDREW: Can I just ask a question? Speaking of puke, who threw up at the end of the CD, in the secret track?
JOEY (without hesitation): That's Chris.
COREY: Yeah, that's Chris. That's Bud. That's Bud.
ANDREW: I'm not even going to ask what you were watching...we've got enough e-mails to tell us what it was already.
COREY: We won't tell you anyway, so there you go.
(More cheering breaks out, JOEY encourages the crowd - as he is only 5'4, he climbs on to the podium)
WOMAN VJ (trying to be heard above the crowd): Can I...ask a question, do some of you have girlfriends?
COREY: Uh yes, some of us have girlfriends, some of us have wives...you know, but uh...
WOMAN VJ: So they've got wives and girlfriends, I was wondering that...
ANDREW: Very cool
WOMAN VJ: I'm going to go out and get some questions from your fans, okay?
ANDREW: We did have a question on the chatroom. "Metal Lord" wanted to know what sort of guitar pedals your guitar players use?
(Note this question is to a vocalist and two members of percussion, not the strings)
COREY: Uh, that's something you will have to ask them. I'm not really sure...
JOEY: I think I know, but I ain't going to like going to detail...
ANDREW: Secret?
COREY: Exactly
ANDREW: Sure...(to the crowd)...do you have a question for us?
WOMAN VJ (with a young fan): So, what is your name?
TIM: Tim.
WOMAN VJ: Tim! How are you?
TIM: Pretty good thanks
WOMAN VJ: Pretty excited seeing Slipknot?
TIM: Yeah.
WOMAN VJ: Have you got a question for the guys?
TIM: Yeah (mumbles quickly) Whatareyourinfluences?
WOMAN VJ: What are your influences? Who do they listen to, maybe?
ANDREW: The influence question...
COREY: We've got so many influences man, it's hard to pick one out. I mean we are all pretty eclectic as far as the music we listen to. Um, as far as I am concerned, I listen to anything from old school Slayer (loud cheers from the crowd) to uh, uh, something as melodic as you know, uh, the quiet stuff from like Sarah McLachlan to uh Mister. (Crowd cheers) Hey! I can't lie! I'm not here to lie to you man!
WOMAN VJ (to blonde female fan): Hello, what's your name?
COREY (cont): But uh we listen to stuff like Mr Bungle...really cool band...yeah, and uh, you know obviously old Faith No More, man. One of the baddest bands on earth.
WOMAN VJ: I've got Lisa out here. Lisa, have you got a question for Slipknot?
LISA: Do you guys have girlfriends?
COREY: Um, I don't know. Why? What are you doing tonight?
(Laughter, Lisa looks bashful)
WOMAN VJ: I don't know...what are you doing tonight, Lisa?
LISA: Ummmm....I don't know...
WOMAN VJ: Okay, I've got to find another person with a...(CROWD starts cheering)...okay, hang on, okay...okay, okay...I promised you boys, I did promise you boys...okay, Scott, so have you got a question for Slipknot?
SCOTT: Hey fella's, what's going on with Limp Bizkit? Is there a bit of a rivalry going on or what, cos you'd kill 'em anyway! Limp Bizkit, who?
COREY: You would have to ask the Limp Bizkit question...uhhh...all right, I'm gonna go on record right now...you guys ready? Are you guys ready?
(Various cheers from crowd)
COREY: Limp Bizkit. Somebody in Limp Bizkit had the audacity to say to one of our good friends, this was a very reliable source, 'that Slipknot fans are nothing but a bunch of fat, ugly kids'.
(CROWD reacts in anger)
SOMEONE IN THE CROWD yells: Fred Durst is fat!
JOEY claps. Goes back to standing with his hands behind his back.
COREY (Laughs): Hold on a second...hold up...I want to tell you what I said to that, uhhh...one...I'm a fat ugly kid...two...Slipknot fans, for the most part, enjoy all kinds of music, like Limp Bizkit. Maybe. (Starts approaching the camera) So what you are basically saying is your fans, are 'fat ugly kids' too? Is that what you are trying to say to me, mutha...(stops himself from swearing)...huh, is that what you wanna say? You wanna talk shit on the people that you care about, man? (Starts yelling) WE WILL COME OUT, AND WE WILL KILL YOOOOOOOOU!
(Crowd starts cheering loudly, starts chanting "COREY". SHAWN nods.)
~ After a short break in which "Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowies has apparently played, it's back to the studio with Slipknot. Everyone is out of the studio, and near the crowd now.
COREY: What is up with this video? Horrible. What is up? Alright...is it off?
ANDREW: It's off
COREY: Is it off? GET IT OFF!!
ANDREW: It's gone. It's all right.
COREY: GET IT OFFFFFFFFF!!! GET IT OFFFFFFFFF!!! (turns back to the crowd) All right...welcome to Slipknot TV people...I've got something to say right now...one thing; I love Sydney, Australia....two; we're going to kill people tonight, AREN'T WE!!!!!!!!
(The crowd, which had been listening in a reverent silence, erupts)
COREY: And there ain't nothing they can do about it...there ain't nothing they can do about it...
(Crowd start chanting "SLIPKNOT" again)
(CROWD cheers. COREY throws down the mic, which is retrieved by the WOMAN VJ)
ANDREW: We still have some guys on the phone. On the phone from Whyalla...you guys have to be quiet so Tyson can hear the guys. Tyson, are you there?
TYSON: Yes I am
ANDREW: Tyson, you got a question for Slipknot?
TYSON: Yes, um...you are playing a gig on Sunday night in Adelaide. Why does it have to be on a school night? I can't go, and I'm so...yeah...it really sucks...
SHAWN (while COREY is pacing around): How about you give someone your mom's phone number, so we'll get you, and bust you out of the house.
TYSON (laughs): I was thinking of running over there, but by the time I run over there, you might be doing your next gig.
SHAWN: We'll bring your mom too, and your dad, your grandma and whoever.
WOMAN VJ (handing the mic to COREY): What do you guys say to all the moms and dads out there, who get angry at their kids for listening to Slipknot?
COREY: Deal with it, because you can't stop it!
(The crowd cheers and whistles)
COREY: Do you see it!? Do you see it?! Are you going to stop this?! YOU CAN'T STOP THIS!! SO FIGURE IT OUT!!!
(COREY goes back to standing with SHAWN and JOEY)
COREY: See...
ANDREW: Sam...Sam in Port Augusta wants to have a chat. Sam, you there?
SAM: Yeah.
ANDREW: Wassup man
SAM: Hello.
COREY: What's going on?
SAM: I was wondering when your next video is coming out?
COREY: Uh, not sure. Right now we are just concentrating on getting on to as many people as possible, like the great people of Australia here. Uh, we don't have...we don't have really any set time to do a new video. We have been talking about going back in and doing a new CD here soon. Uh. But right now, we are going to stay out on the road, and kill each other, so...
JOEY nods
ANDREW: This is your next home movie? When will that come out?
COREY: Uh, end of...beginning of next year...and it's gonna be called...
(CROWD screams)
COREY (cont): Just because you guys as are crazy as you are, you will be on the next home video...
(CROWD cheers, chants "Slipknot")
WOMAN VJ: Just...thank you...thank you so much Slipknot for coming in...I've got one last question..
COREY: Okay...
WOMAN VJ:...from a girl who has faxed in...she wants to know your opinion on where the human race is going?
COREY: The human race? (Chuckles) Do I look like a politician?
SHAWN: We are all going to live on Mars.
WOMAN VJ (laughing): Thank you. Please put your hands together for Slipknot!
Notes
Unmasking: Ironically, Joey who answers this question, would be one of the first to unmask.
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