Drummer wunderkind Jay Weinberg has been publicly reflecting on his time with Slipknot these past few days.
Earlier this week, Weinberg took to Instagram to share a photo of himself recreating his first meeting with Slipknot, when he was just a wee child. Jay’s father, legendary E Street Band drummer and former Conan O’Brien bandleader Max Weinberg, phad introduced Jay to the group when he was a young fan.
Weinberg recreated that backstage meeting with his father and Slipknot guitarist Jim Root after the band’s show at the PNC Bank Arts Centre in Holmdel, New Jersey — the same venue where the original photo was taken years ago.
“Time is a flat circle,” Weinberg wrote. It’s incredibly wholesome stuff.
Now, Jay Weinberg has recalled the moment where he first told his father that he was joining Slipknot as a full-time member. During a recent Q&A with the Slipknot official fan club Outside the 9, Weinberg recalled: “I don’t know if he believed me, to be honest.”
“I actually couldn’t even tell him what band I had auditioned for, truthfully, for a while, till I asked the band if I could tell my dad. But once I did, he was very happy considering this is a band that he introduced to my life.
“I’m sure I would have crossed the path of Slipknot’s music at some point, but he really made that initial connection between myself and the members of the band. So, for him to have done that for me and did me that solid of introducing me to these guys at nine or 10 years old, and then 13, 14 years later, I joined the band, he was overwhelmed and overjoyed, I’m sure.
“It’s something we still talk about to this day when certain benchmarks are met, or certain interesting things are happening, like playing on late-night TV, where I grew up watching him work and stuff like that, and now we’re on a late-night TV program. It’s very interesting. So, yeah, when I first told him I was joining Slipknot, I think he flipped his shit.”
Weinberg joined Slipknot in 2014 following the departure of founding member Joey Jordison.
Slipknot will be heading down under later this year in support of Metallica’s WorldWired tour. Ticket information below.
Metallica’s WorldWired Australia Tour 2019
With special guests Slipknot
Thursday, October 17th
Optus Stadium, Perth, WA
Sunday, October 20th
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA
Tuesday October 22nd (Sold Out)Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, VIC
Thursday October 24th
Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, VIC
Saturday October 26th
ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
Tuesday, October 29th
QSAC, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets available through Live Nation
