MIKE:(Question thx to Brian Coleman): You guys know about mtv and what they do for bands' careers. Will you ever feature a censored video or something that is not you just so you can be on mtv?
Shawn: We did submit a video called "Spit it out", we did a rendition of the Shining, they didn't take it so we are not doing anything else for mtv. We then put it on home video at a low price, and gave it to our fans. We can give two shits less for what's going on.
Joe: We recognize that the current success of the band is thanks to the fans and the fans only. Not because of mtv or magazines cause you won't see us much in either one of those. However, thanks to our current success, they might in turn look at our next video and actually play it.
MIKE: I noticed on your cd, the opening of (sic) ...it reminds me a little bit of Marilyn Manson. What is your opinion of him?
Joe: The first two records are really good...
MIKE: Do you like his old shit?
Joe: Yeah...
MIKE: What do you think about the new image that he is trying to get out there?
Shawn: I just think he's out there to do his thing, and i don't think Slipknot is anything like him. We never met him, but if you' re a musician and you are working very hard at it, we respect you.
Joe: I think he's just pushing the limits of what he can do.
MIKE: How do you feel about Korn and their success?
Joe: The first record was really good, the second has some good stuff on it, but the third one, i didn't care much about. The latest one, i haven't heard much of.
MIKE: Do you guys fuck with your masks on?
Joe: (Laughter) I think Shawn might have, but i haven't yet.
MIKE: Have you ever slept with anybody so ugly that you had to put the mask on her?
Joe: Oh, no.
Shawn: That's what the lights are for.
MIKE: The sound effect at the end of your cd... what is that. Some kind of fucked up porno?
Shawn: We can't tell you.
Joe: You gotta keep something secret.
MIKE: To me it sounds like some nasty ass porno.
Shawn: It's like this man... number one, we are against the whole hidden track thing. A whole bunch of bands that were doing well started doing it. But with that particular thing going on in our lives, it was so real and so disgusting...
Joe:It was one of those things you' ll remember even when you're eighty.
MIKE: How did your appearance on Howard Stern affect your popularity?
Joe: I don't think it did shit! If we didn't do it we'd be at the same level of popularity that we are at now. We were only on for a second and i don't think when people heard us it made an impact.
MIKE: If you were a New York City cab driver, would you pick up a black guy?
Joe: Yeah, sure, why not?
MIKE: How do you feel about the distribution of MP3z?
Shawn: I'll be honest you with man... I think the Internet is the greatest invention the world has ever seen. If a kid can't be at a Slipknot show, he could be with you intimately at home, regardless of where he is around the world. MP3z I think are fine, but it's very dangerous when certain people get a hold of an album before it is released and leak it out to the public. Then people download it and distribute it... You have to understand; if you're a musician, you learn how to, and i'm gonna quote something from Henry Rollins here: "you learn how to starve creatively". This is our livelyhood, and MP3's can be very dangerous. I'm a great supporter of the Internet. Our Slipknot1.com page got over 230,000 hits last month, and it's a great way of reaching out.
Joe: It's more fun to me to go out and buy a CD from a record store, than to just get it off the Internet.
Shawn: I think the corporate world needs to wake the fuck up and make it more fun for fans to go online and get educated about their favorite bands.
MIKE: What's the hot cd's in your player right now?
Joe: The new "Amen" record is really good and the new "Accused".
Shawn: And i got to say, the new "Nine Inch Nails", whether you like them or not, is an awesome album.
MIKE: What about Limp Bizkit? What's the story between you and them?
Shawn: Let's go on the record and say something right now: We live of the most common things in life, number one of which is respect. I don't talk shit about anyone, unless i have something to say. A couple of people in that band said that we're with RoadRunner so we'll never go anywhere. And also that we speak for fat ugly kids. So take that for what it is, but when we see Limp Bizkit for the first time, we are going to get naked and take it in cromag style. I'm gonna have a fucking quarter in my hand and we're gonna flip for fucking punches.
Joe: Punches in the face. Fifty fifty chance of winning.
Shawn: We'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I'll flip for a punch with those cock suckers any time! But if they didn't say anything, then we're all good.
Joe: Let me make something clear about them. Wes, the guitar player, fucking rules. Wes is the shit.
Shawn: Few people have the gift, and Wes is one of them.
Joe: He can jam with us any time.
Shawn: The rest of the band, whatever, but Wes is the man.
MIKE: What kind of background are you guys from?
Joe: As far as musical asperations, we grew up with "Black Sabbath", then we got into the black metal shit like "Venom", and "Slayer". Then we started getting into the "Jane's Addiction" type of staff. Pretty much a wide range of everything. Right now, we're so involved with "Slipknot" we don't listen to anything except from the few we just mentioned. From an attitude perspective, we were all raised pretty well, but we were raised in an environment were you had to develop your own sense of individuality. I had 16,000 imaginary friends. I had my own fucking army. Where we came from you don't really have an outlet to let go. This is why we stuck with this for ten years.
Shawn: It's beautiful because we know were we wanna be, and it's easy because we're all guys and we're all best friends. We're doing it all and it's easy. We're just starting, so this is just fucking foreplay. (At this point Shawn gets very excited and sticks his head through the wall. >>>>>>>*@*!*@*#*>>>>