This is a post I was not expecting to be writing so soon. Honestly, at all. When do you ever consider the mortality of people you have never met but who nevertheless succeeded to affect your life so profoundly?
I never had the chance to meet Joey Jordison, but I will always remember the few times I was lucky enough to see him live together with Slipknot. It was chaos, but a form of chaos that just radiated and managed to give you energy to keep going. To fight. We all fight our own battles. Joey fought his own, and he gave me the strength to fight mine.
Being a young, passionate and odd kid, drums and Slipknot were some of the only things that gave me comfort and confidence. They made me feel like I had a home, and that me and my struggles were valid. If someone can make me feel these things, then maybe I can do something like that too? No, Joey wasn’t the most technical or skilled drummer, but damn it if he wasn’t one of the most passionate and expressive. He never played for skill. He played for emotion. His contribution to music and drumming will live on, not just through me, but through our entire beautiful community who I know shares my sentiments. I am eternally and deeply grateful for having lived at the same time as him.
I remember speaking with Corey after a show with Stone Sour back in 2010, and he mentioned that the nine had seen some of my YouTube videos during their rehearsals. Joey had apparently become angry at how this little Swedish kid on YouTube was playing their songs “better than him” haha. The sweetest and most humble form of hyperbole I’ve ever heard.
Thanks Joe. For everything.🖤 Ok if I keep the name, just for a bit longer...?
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This is a post I was not expecting to be writing so soon. Honestly, at all. When do you ever consider the mortality of people you have never met but who nevertheless succeeded to affect your life so profoundly?
I never had the chance to meet Joey Jordison, but I will always remember the few times I was lucky enough to see him live together with Slipknot. It was chaos, but a form of chaos that just radiated and managed to give you energy to keep going. To fight. We all fight our own battles. Joey fought his own, and he gave me the strength to fight mine.
Being a young, passionate and odd kid, drums and Slipknot were some of the only things that gave me comfort and confidence. They made me feel like I had a home, and that me and my struggles were valid. If someone can make me feel these things, then maybe I can do something like that too? No, Joey wasn’t the most technical or skilled drummer, but damn it if he wasn’t one of the most passionate and expressive. He never played for skill. He played for emotion. His contribution to music and drumming will live on, not just through me, but through our entire beautiful community who I know shares my sentiments. I am eternally and deeply grateful for having lived at the same time as him.
I remember speaking with Corey after a show with Stone Sour back in 2010, and he mentioned that the nine had seen some of my YouTube videos during their rehearsals. Joey had apparently become angry at how this little Swedish kid on YouTube was playing their songs “better than him” haha. The sweetest and most humble form of hyperbole I’ve ever heard.
Thanks Joe. For everything.🖤
Ok if I keep the name, just for a bit longer...?
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