Imagine you're Jay Weinberg. You just finished college and somebody calls you and tells you that they want you to fly out to LA to audition for something, but they don't tell you what. You get into the room and discover the band you're auditioning for is actually Slipknot.
This is exactly what happened to the current Slipknot drummer. He was not told ahead of time, according to this new interview on Best Friends with Sam Pura podcast:
“I finished school. Shortly after that I got a call to come out and audition for something. I wasn’t told what it was gonna be, but just like… ‘can you please come out to LA and audition for this thing?’ with no other information other than that and it was like “well, yeah why wouldn’t I go check that out”. Like, what’s the worst thing that could happen? I get a free flight to LA or something?
“So I just kind of followed that and it was just like alright go in that room… there’s a drumset. You’re going to audition for Slipknot right now. And that was it. Like half the band was there. We had become good friends over sixteen years. They watched me grow up as a person.
“It was me, Jim, Mick, Corey, and Clown. It was like, lets toss this kid into the ring and see whatever the fuck happens with this, you know, with no expectations of what would happen. Because they didn’t know that I knew the band’s songs. They knew I loved the band but they didn’t really know to what extent I had studied the music.”
You might recall when Jay was first introduced, the band did not identify him, although it was pretty obvious, and eventually did leak out anyway.
Can you imagine showing up to an audition like that unprepared? It goes to show what a big fan Jay was that he was able to complete songs without any rehearsal beforehand. It also explains why his father, legendary Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg, is so proud of his son.
[via Rock Feed]
