Slipknot drummer since 2014, Jay Weinberg reveals what the process of replacing the band's original drummer, Joey Jordison .
“I wouldn’t say I was walking on eggshells,” Weinberg stated in an interview with The Metal Circus . “For me, I understood my role in the context of the band drastically changing its dynamics, working on new music without two of its founding members [Jordison and the late bassist Paul Gray ]. That was immense for a band that, at that point, had been around for almost 20 years or something like that. It wasn’t like walking on eggshells, because I knew the role I was coming to fill,” the drummer assured.
“I had a lot to bring and a lot to prove – not to an audience,” he clarifies. “I wasn’t worried about that because I can’t control that – I can’t control how an audience will accept the new Slipknot songs that are my first songs playing with the band or anything like that; I can’t control how anyone will react to that. But I had a lot to prove to myself, I had to prove to my new bandmates that, for some reason, they liked the way I played and that I was chosen to be part of the band for some reason.”
