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Slipknot co-founder Joey Jordison dead at 46

Doomtrain

Doomtrain

Gold Member
This is awful. Dude was an incredible drummer, and from what I've heard, he was an incredibly nice person who was always humble and grateful to his fans. RIP.
 
Droxcy

Droxcy

Member
This one hurts. I looked up to this man’s playing since 2000 very innovative drummer & awesome dude.

Got to see him with Slipknot twice sad his condition basically ended his career along with other things.

He’ll be missed.
 
Tschumi

Tschumi

Member
Shit :/

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V1LÆM

V1LÆM

Gold Member
oh fuck off. i haven't listened to slipknot in years and have no idea what joey was up to but he was such an inspiration for me growing up. because of him i learned to play drums. and his mask was my favourite! i alwaaays made a joey mask at school halloween lol.

any idea how he died? has he been ill or is this out of nowhere?

RIP Joey :messenger_heart:
 
FUBARx89

FUBARx89

Member
Passed in his sleep his family said. Wonder if he relapsed from the disease and killed himself.

Amazing drummer, underrated guitarist. Always thought he might of gone back to Slipknot at some point.

If there's anything after life, he'll be slaying it with #2 right now.
 
Droxcy

Droxcy

Member
FunkMiller said:
Fuck. That’s horrible.

Dude was a great drummer. Look up Download 2004. He played with Metallica after Ulrich got sick, and with no rehearsal played better than Ulrich ever did.
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Him and Dave absolutely slayed that show watching Joey play with his childhood favorite bands legendary he’s also played with Rob Zombie, Korn, System Of A Down was a joy to be around.
 
SafeOrAlone

SafeOrAlone

Banned
Slipknot always have a tragedy hanging over their upcoming records. I guess with so many members, you are open to more possibilities when it comes to stuff like this.
first there was Paul, then Clown’s daughter passed away right as WANYK was releasing a couple years ago, now Joey right before this one.

I hope they find strength through one another.

and they will pull all the stops for Joey. The album will be dedicated to him, of course, and they are going to lavish him with the credit he deserves.
I don’t like to comment on the “break up” because I wasn’t there, so I don’t mean to imply anything about that, I just know this won’t be swept under the rug by any stretch.
 
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QuantumZebra

QuantumZebra

Member
As a drummer he is the reason I use Pearl drumkits and focused on my toms and off timing but within 4/4 grooves. Such an innovator and really broke open what you could do in metal music on drums (before it was mostly blast beats and double bass all day).

RIP Joey.

Kev Kev said:
motherfucker sure was fast
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Perfect example right out of the gate.

Watch his fills and rolls... metal drummers just didn't incorporate toms and other "lesser" cymbals the way he did. So innovative.

SafeOrAlone said:
Slipknot always have a tragedy hanging over their upcoming records. I guess with so many members, you are open to more possibilities when it comes to stuff like this.
first there was Paul, then Clown’s daughter passed away right as WANYK was releasing a couple years ago, now Joey right before this one.

I hope they find strength through one another.

and they will pull all the stops for Joey. The album will be dedicated to him, of course, and they are going to lavish him with the credit he deserves.
I don’t like to comment on the “break up” because I wasn’t there, so I don’t mean to imply anything about that, I just know this won’t be swept under the rug by any stretch.
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They love Joey and still do, but he (from what I can tell as a passive fan) seemed to go downhill hard with drugs after Paul Gray died. Paul dying really fucked them up on a Metallica-level.

*also as another posted mentioned... he seemed to have some sort of degenerative condition that affected his playing... but no one ever elaborated on it and no one seems to know what it was
 
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SafeOrAlone

SafeOrAlone

Banned
QuantumZebra said:
As a drummer he is the reason I use Pearl drumkits and focused on my toms and off timing but within 4/4 grooves. Such an innovator and really broke open what you could do in metal music on drums (before it was mostly blast beats and double bass all day).

RIP Joey.



Perfect example right out of the gate.

Watch his fills and rolls... metal drummers just didn't incorporate toms and other "lesser" cymbals the way he did. So innovative.



They love Joey and still do, but he (from what I can tell as a passive fan) seemed to go downhill hard with drugs after Paul Gray died. Paul dying really fucked them up on a Metallica-level.

*also as another posted mentioned... he seemed to have some sort of degenerative condition that affected his playing... but no one ever elaborated on it and no one seems to know what it was
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The interesting is that you can apparently get that disease from doing too much coke. I’m no medical expert but that’s what I’ve read. So it’s a blurry line when it comes to the true root cause of him being kicked out.
 
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