{"id":3889,"date":"2024-11-27T22:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2024-11-27T22:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:15:30","slug":"3889-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Felt the Whole Stage Moving\u201d: Slipknot Takes Us on Their 25th Anniversary Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3887 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-764x1024.jpeg 764w, https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-768x1029.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-1146x1536.jpeg 1146w, https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-750x1005.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7-1140x1528.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Photo-Oct-10-2024-2-01-21-PM-7.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>CRAHAN: For us, things have changed so much. It\u2019s sort of like you can\u2019t keep our attention. We come from such a beautiful world of learning music without the internet and programs to teach you faster. And hey, AI can master your music. That\u2019s cool. But really, this art form is all the peers that we know. We\u2019re all from that school. We\u2019re not from any new school that performs on tape or relies on a bunch of stuff. We took the rocket into space to see space, and space is a big place, but we\u2019re still in our little rocket going forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ROOT: It\u2019s crazy. There\u2019s so much digital that happens, and we\u2019re more of an analog band. That way we don\u2019t have to play to tracks. So many bands play to tracks these days. You might as well just put the CD on and have them jump around on stage with instruments not even plugged in. And it\u2019s kind of a shame. I mean, it\u2019s great for bedroom musicians and bands that like to self-produce and do everything from home, but it takes away some of the danger and the happy accidents and the humanity. We came from an era where Milli Vanilli was vilified for lip-syncing, and now it\u2019s glorified. That\u2019s how much it\u2019s changed. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: 100 percent. I was talking with someone recently from a different band, and he had brought his daughter to a show, and his daughter was super stoked whenever the musician would spin or something. And he was really taken aback like, \u201cHe\u2019s just doing his job.\u201d But the bar has kind of changed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: Well, I think everybody\u2019s being brainwashed and programmed. Honestly, if you go on any network and get any sort of song, you\u2019re getting an encoded piece of crap. There\u2019s all these different ways of listening, but everybody that\u2019s going to shows, they\u2019re getting direct input. I could go on and on and on about what it really is. But I\u2019m 55, the world\u2019s moving to get off the planet, the world\u2019s moving to not leave the house and just be some sort of droid and do all your business from a camera. That\u2019s evolution. That\u2019s where it\u2019s going. And in music, we see it all the time. Man, we\u2019re real players. Most of our fans won\u2019t look away because they\u2019re listening and watching. But I go to all these festivals and I watch people watch big, big artists [perform] like zombies that have been programmed to what you visually are being given and hearing. And there\u2019s a lot of control in all that garbage. How old are you, if you don\u2019t mind me asking?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: I\u2019m 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: You\u2019re half my age. Our album came out when you were born. So what I\u2019m trying to say is, we\u2019re all together because we loved what we were doing in such an elementary way that we got together and put together all-ages shows and learned how to charge and flyer and clean up the stage and carry our equipment. And then the bar owner\u2019s telling us, \u201cHey, we\u2019ve got to pay more money for our Sunday liquor license, so you dudes got to get out and flyer the whole city.\u201d We just come from a realm where the love of music made everything else happen. I mean, we\u2019re happiest when we\u2019re playing. The rest of it is complete bullshit in my opinion. So it\u2019s just really fresh when the bands come out and can\u2019t throw the curveball anymore. I can\u2019t remember the last time I was on stage and felt that danger instead of whatever fabricated ride the world\u2019s deciding to take us on. All I\u2019m doing is defending the era we come from. We haven\u2019t changed. We\u2019re just ourselves and still have the ability to do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: I totally hear it. I have a brother who\u2019s 16 and I take him to shows. I had to yell at him because he just takes the iPhone out and records the whole show and watches it through the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: I\u2019m like, \u201cGet off the fucking phone, dude.\u201dCRAHAN: It\u2019s not necessarily his fault, because if you don\u2019t go with change, you get left behind. All of us are going to see younger people doing things that we\u2019re a little taken aback by. That\u2019s the brainwashing I\u2019m talking about. He picked that up somewhere, and so did everyone else. And we\u2019ve heard artists like Jack White say, \u201cNo cameras, no phones with lights.\u201d And yes, a majority of kids will literally watch the shows through their phone, and we could be mad about that, but it\u2019s not going to go away. I\u2019m just really proud to be a part of an organization that still fucking bleeds man. We bleed, we bruise. We go for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ROOT: That\u2019s definitely kind of a tip of the hat to how technology can be good and bad. In some ways, you\u2019re sacrificing yourself from a live event that\u2019s happening right in front of your face. But at the same time, you\u2019re sharing it with 100 or maybe even 10,000 other people that can\u2019t be there at that moment, documenting in real time. It\u2019s kind of a double-edged sword. And I still get up there and do what I did 10 years ago, 20 years ago. I might not jump as high, but in some ways, maybe I\u2019m still 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: Definitely. People from my generation maybe never even got to experience concerts before smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: You have no idea. I mean, think about this brother GG Allin. Of course, there were chemicals involved in things like this, but GG Allin and The Murder Junkies would be fight club. You\u2019re talking about people getting beat up by GG or the crowd beating GG. I mean, this wasn\u2019t just that band. You\u2019re talking about a whole world. You can\u2019t even imagine a Black Flag show. We were from Iowa, we didn\u2019t get a lot of that, but 1982 or 1983, Bad Brains at CBGB, go look that up. Just watch H.R. do backflips and people rushing the stage. This is the world we come from, where some bands would let you sit on the stage and encourage it. I\u2019m not belly aching, but I am saying that hopefully the physical performance is always needed. I feel very fortunate to have come the full distance. And I guess I\u2019m talking about this a lot because it really is about celebrating 25 years. You have your whole life to write your first album, and then you get to play it 25 years later, and people want it and love it and say thank you. So it\u2019s just been a privilege and an honor to be able to take the journey I\u2019ve been on to be where I\u2019m at now. It\u2019s been a great ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ROOT: It\u2019s been awesome. Can you imagine a world though, where we\u2019re all at home and our sound and light PA travels and people get VR goggles and we literally play live from home jacked into a Pro Tools or something?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: I can\u2019t imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: It\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: Well, this is a good segue into my last question, which is that we\u2019re 25 years into Slipknot. What\u2019s the next 25 look like for you guys? Where do we go in this strange future of digital bullshit?ROOT: I mean, as far as songwriting goes, we\u2019re still trying to learn how to do that and evolve. And I think Clown, for Shawn, he\u2019s got a lot of weight on his shoulders with the artistic vision of the band. I mean, this all came from his brain. And listening to him speak, there\u2019s a lot going on in there. How do you combine art and logistics and make them cross perfectly? There\u2019s a lot of that to look forward to in the future. And maybe it\u2019s not too far off from that VR goggle thing or holograms, who knows? Or maybe we strip it all the way back down and we just go back to playing clubs and doing a Pappy and Harriets type show like we did before we started this kind of run.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: I agree. I\u2019m a fact guy. I was explaining to my youngest son a couple of days ago that my mom checked out at 58, that\u2019s three years ahead of me right now. That\u2019s in the genes. So where I stand, it\u2019s like a testimony that the end is unavoidable. But what\u2019s exciting is just what Jim said. There\u2019s so much to ponder. And I love that about Slipknot, that I wake up every day still thinking and dreaming in my own way, and I know the other guys do, too. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to change until we do exit this reality. But until then, it\u2019s a very exciting time. It\u2019s time to write and it\u2019s time to contemplate art and life and the future. And it\u2019s scary, but it\u2019s also beautiful and full of mystery. And that\u2019s what Slipknot\u2019s usually best at. We step into everything. I\u2019m really excited for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: That is a terrific place to end this convo. I\u2019m really feeling some FOMO about not seeing you guys now because it sounds really fucking fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ROOT: Come catch the European show. It\u2019d be fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RIBEIRO: Oh, it\u2019d be super fucking fun, dude. Have a fun, safe, or unsafe rest of the tour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CRAHAN: Safe is kind of one of those words. We need to hear that, but it\u2019s also one of those words that scares us because it is completely unsafe for us at all times, in many ways. But man, come check us out, be our guest, and we\u2019ll house you over there. Come to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RIBEIRO: I would be honored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAHAN: For us, things have changed so much. It\u2019s sort of like you can\u2019t keep our attention. We come from such a beautiful world of learning music without the internet and programs to teach you faster. And hey, AI can master your music. That\u2019s cool. 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