Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has discussed the pressures of joining one of the world's biggest (and craziest) metal bands, as well as having to replace an iconic member in former drummer Joey Jordison, who left Slipknot in 2013 (Jordison passed away in July 2021).
“I never felt overawed by the pressure to replace Joey," he tells Metal Hammer magazine. "Up until that point I had always come into existing projects, primarily as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band; to me, that’s incredibly intimidating. I was playing to crowds of 80-90 thousand people in stadiums, and I had only been playing drums for three years! Having accomplished that, I had set myself up to be this guy who could jump in on a moving freight train, be it Madball or Against Me!. So, I put myself in that context, and I knew how to be myself, I knew how to find my own voice in another artist’s catalogue. But Slipknot was the biggest challenge. That took all my experience and turned the dials up to 20."
