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Drummer Jay Weinberg was asked if he had any regrets about his time with Slipknot in a recent interview with The Garza Podcast, which is hosted by Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza, as per Blabbermouth. Specifically, he was asked about how he was let go from the band about two and a half years ago. Only two days had passed since Jay’s last performance with Slipknot on November 3, 2023, at the Hell & Heaven festival in Toluca, Mexico.
No, no. Much has been said about it, but I don’t think living with regrets… Your trajectory, it is what it is. And I think as long as you work your hardest, try your best and apply yourself and do things for the right reasons, I think those are the things that lead you from fulfilling moment to fulfilling moment.
I really believe in being in tune with the things that my friends and people who I’ve shared creative spaces with are saying, I saw something recently that a friend of mine said of, like, the only thing that’s consistent in life is impermanence. And if you are comfortable with that, then you stand the chance of continuing your path or whatever is meant for in that sense. And with that in mind, the idea of impermanence and this and that, it’s, like, no, I don’t regret any of these things.
When Jay was a preteen, his father introduced him to Slipknot. He became enthralled with Slipknot right away, and by the time he was asked to try out for Joey Jordison in Los Angeles in 2013, he was an avid fan. A disgruntled former drumtech for Slipknot posted a picture of a backstage call sheet on Instagram, revealing Weinberg and bassist Alessandro “Vman” Venturella’s identities. However, for the first few months following the release of 2014’s “5: The Grey Chapter,” the members of Slipknot refused to identify the musicians playing drums and bass on their tour.
