Joey Jordison dead

[g4ry13]

Just saw the sad news that Joey Jordison has died. Pretty shocking at the age of 46.

[Mastodon2]

Sad news but not surprising. Much like Alexi Laiho, he lived a hard life, full of drink, drugs and tabs. When you have unlimited access to all three, that stuff will put you toes up well before your day is due.

[Zetec-S]

I believe he'd been diagnosed with some form of MS a few years ago, so possibly related to that?

[Swampy1982]

I was fortunate enough to see him play a few times, one of life's real characters, sad to see he has passed on.

[st3ven1]

Very sad news.

Seen Joey play a number of times, I was even there when he stood in for Lars Ulrich and played several songs with Metallica.



Will always remember the first time his drum kit rose up from the stage, tipped forward and started spinning all while he was performing a drum solo.

Apparently he had transverse myelitis.

"Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord. This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers (myelin). Transverse myelitis interrupts the messages that the spinal cord nerves send throughout the body."

Edited by st3ven1 on Wednesday 28th July 11:52

[AJB88]

Gutted. I had the pleasure of seeing him in a few bands and also got to have a few beers with him a few years ago.

[Gompo]

A shame. I didn't really like anything he played on, but I know he was a respected and talented drummer. My first thought was that it would be self inflicted somehow, sad regardless of course.

[Its Just Adz]

AJB88 said:

Gutted. I had the pleasure of seeing him in a few bands and also got to have a few beers with him a few years ago.

Glad you have the memories of that.

One of the best drummers ever to live.

[AJB88]

Seen him live with Slipknot, Murderdolls and a very intimate Vimic show in London (think there was about 20 people there)

[Silenoz]

st3ven1 said:

Very sad news.

Seen Joey play a number of times, I was even there when he stood in for Lars Ulrich and played several songs with Metallica.



Will always remember the first time his drum kit rose up from the stage, tipped forward and started spinning all while he was performing a drum solo.

Apparently he had transverse myelitis.

"Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord. This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers (myelin). Transverse myelitis interrupts the messages that the spinal cord nerves send throughout the body."

Edited by st3ven1 on Wednesday 28th July 11:52

I saw this too. Thought how much better Metallica sounded with a decent drummer!

Very sad news, such a talented man.

[AJB88]

He wasn't just a drummer. he also played bass and guitar, produced, wrote, recorded. He was involved in a lot of Roadrunner stuff.

[Greshamst]

Slipknot’s self-titled album was a revelation for me. It kickstarted my love of a double base pedal. What a shame.

[AJB88]

"Slipknot" is a cracking album, have you listened to "Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat" which was their "Demo" album, its very raw and a few are quite jazzy. I love it.

[Colonel D]

I was gutted to hear about this. Not really a metal fan but Slipknot are a guilty pleasure, since their self titled album. Got to see them once around that time and it was probably the best act I've seen live. I still love this clip, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-EAK0VEV4

[AJB88]

The 911 call has been leaked, appears his "family" are away on vacation and it was his ex that suspected something was up so she attended the address.

Been watching a few old videos of him behind the mask. So hard to believe hes not going to play another drum solo.

Edited by AJB88 on Friday 30th July 18:25

[S100HP]

Great tribute

https://fb.watch/743vTLIhe7/

[smithyithy]

Really sad news, as it was when their bassist Paul died.

Slipknot was my gateway drug into heavier metal music. Around 2000 me and my friends were about to start secondary school, we were all into skating an nu-metal (Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park etc) was really popular..

I'd heard of Slipknot but didn't really know their music, then one of the older 'greebo' (local slang for the goth / rocker types) at my new school gave me a dodgy copy of their first album after chatting to him about bands..

I put that in the hi-fi as soon as I got home and holy st. Imagine being 11 and hearing Sic, Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Surfacing etc for the first time.. absolutely mental. Parents were disgusted, I was hooked.

Iowa came out not long after and that just sealed the deal. We were fortunate enough to see them twice live, once in the Iowa era when they did the Unholy Alliance tour with Slayer, then a year later they headlined Download after releasing Vol. 3. What an experience.

I dip in and out of their later stuff, but the first 3 albums I can just put on loud and not help but headbang along. Sounds soppy but their music was actually a big help during the st years I had at school so it's sad to hear this news.

[AJB88]

smithyithy said:

Really sad news, as it was when their bassist Paul died.

Slipknot was my gateway drug into heavier metal music. Around 2000 me and my friends were about to start secondary school, we were all into skating an nu-metal (Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park etc) was really popular..

I'd heard of Slipknot but didn't really know their music, then one of the older 'greebo' (local slang for the goth / rocker types) at my new school gave me a dodgy copy of their first album after chatting to him about bands..

I put that in the hi-fi as soon as I got home and holy st. Imagine being 11 and hearing Sic, Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Surfacing etc for the first time.. absolutely mental. Parents were disgusted, I was hooked.

Iowa came out not long after and that just sealed the deal. We were fortunate enough to see them twice live, once in the Iowa era when they did the Unholy Alliance tour with Slayer, then a year later they headlined Download after releasing Vol. 3. What an experience.

I dip in and out of their later stuff, but the first 3 albums I can just put on loud and not help but headbang along. Sounds soppy but their music was actually a big help during the st years I had at school so it's sad to hear this news.

Pretty much same story for me, I started high school in 2000, but my mate who is about 10 years older had me listening to Manson at about 8 haha.

[AJB88]

S100HP said:

Great tribute

https://fb.watch/743vTLIhe7/

It is good. I keep thinking though. And obviously we will probably never get the full truth on him leaving Slipknot now, but it seems that towards the end he was being carried on/off stage by other band members and then got diagnosed with that type of MS. Then apparently fired by email from the band that he started with Shawn and Paul.

Obviously in a dark place after that, the ex on the phone to the police says he has/had a drinking problem, not really sure if any of the Slipknot guys really gave him that much time of day after, apparently Jim used to speak to him occasionally. Are the guys from Slipknot ultimately responsible for his downfall? seems they dropped him in his hour of need, if they had put him on gardening leave instead until his MS was sorted and just brought in a session drummer.. would he still be here.

As I said above he played in front of about 20 people at the 100 club in London. That has got to hurt while your real band are touring around the world still doing Knotfests etc.

[Gompo]

I don't think you can blame the rest of Slipknot for his death.

smithyithy said:

I put that in the hi-fi as soon as I got home and holy st. Imagine being 11 and hearing Sic, Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Surfacing etc for the first time.. absolutely mental. Parents were disgusted, I was hooked.

I'm a little older, but I remember the my teacher asking my favourite band when I was in 5th year at primary school; so probably 10. She was a little confused when I said I can't decide between Death or Deicide (it was probably Slayer at the time to be honest)..