If Wednesday 13 has anyone to thank for getting him the job as the singer in Murderdolls, it’s Joey Jordison’s mom. It was the spring of 2002, and the two men were sitting at the kitchen table in Mrs Jordison’s house in Des Moines, where Joey was still living despite his success in Slipknot.
The 26-year-old Wednesday had signed up to Murderdolls as their bassist. He was playing bars to a couple of hundred people back home in North Carolina with his own band, cross-dressing crypt-creepers Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. What did he have to lose by joining the drummer from Slipknot’s glam-punk side-project?
