Slipknot’s Sid Wilson honors Joey Jordison with high praise

Sid Wilson, the turntablist for multi-platinum, Grammy-winning metal giants Slipknot, discussed the death of the band’s original drummer Joey Jordison in a recent interview with Get On The Bus, as per Blabbermouth.

He wasn’t in the band anymore at that time… [But] I was still friends with Joey. I always maintained a friendship with Joey, man. I love that guy. Yeah, people just choose different lifestyles sometimes, and sometimes that lifestyle’s more important than hanging out with your buds it sucks. Did it stop us from hanging out? No.

About his passing, this is what he stated.

Yeah, there’s nothing easy about it, dude. Life’s tough, man. And you either got nerves of steel or you don’t. And sometimes even the guys that got nerves of steel, that shit gets beat down after a while, man. No one can understand it. You can’t understand anything about anybody. You’re not inside anyone else’s skin. If we could get a skin ticket to anybody’s life, then maybe we would understand, but it’s not for me to understand or try to figure it out or whatever. I just have to accept it and know that he was my buddy.

Wilson spoke highly of Jordison’s skills as a drummer.

I’ll say this: Joey was the best that ever did it. Hands down. The greatest drummers would come to our shows to watch this guy play. Stewart Copeland came and saw us play and said, ‘He’s the one.’ And he was. He was. That dude would hear anybody’s music once and could play it. Lars [Ulrich] didn’t make it to a [Metallica] show once [at a 2004 festival in the U.K.]. We were playing with Metallica. Joey got up there and played the set for him. He could hear anyone’s music once and know how to play it without playing it. He was like that. He was amazing. And he was such a little dude. All that power. It’s ’cause he was so little. He was, like, ‘I’m gonna fucking show you, man. Don’t think I ain’t got it. Don’t think I’m just some little dude, ’cause I’ll fucking tear your face off.’ He was like that. He had something to prove, man. Yeah, he was the best. And then I’ll say [current Slipknot drummer] Eloy [Casagrande] is a fresh breath of air for us. It hasn’t felt like the beginning until he came along. And I’ll leave it at that.