Clown: “We have been inexperienced, we have been undoubtedly a lot youthful, and we have been bodily extra aggressive than we at the moment are, as a result of our our bodies are just about damaged at this level (laughs). I keep in mind arriving on that tour, and we determined to see who was the quickest within the band – we’d do sprints within the parking zone. I keep in mind working in opposition to Joey [Jordison, drums], Chris [Fehn, vocals/percussion], Sid [Wilson, DJ]… we have been like safety canine that wanted to be taken out on laps! Even earlier than it began, we have been doing sprints, simply to get the aggression out. Nevertheless it was the doorway of the dream. We needed to know that what we have been attempting to do was gonna work, so we have been very disciplined, and there have been quite a lot of guidelines we made for ourselves with a view to preserve that self-discipline. However that didn’t translate to the remainder of the group; the group was fairly troublesome to navigate round, and quite a lot of it needed to do with being new. After which there was the entire ruckus of what we have been. We don’t simply play exhibits, we begin wars.
“[At one show] I jumped off the stage and right into a blue barrel. Within the previous days, enjoying bars earlier than we have been signed, I’d at all times sing the track Tattered & Torn inside a rubbish can. I’d discover myself in the course of the ground with folks leaping on the rubbish can and kicking it – I used to do it with out the can, however then I’d get kicked and punched, so I assumed I’d get myself some armour! So at Ozzfest, I assumed this factor was a rubbish can and that I’d soar in it… however it was filled with water. I couldn’t transfer or get out; I used to be the other way up, my ears and nostril stuffed with water. I used to be trapped and thought to myself, ‘You silly fuck, you lastly did it – you simply went together with your feelings and now you’re fucking lifeless.’ Then, abruptly, certainly one of our techs pulled me out, and I acquired again onstage. After the present I gave him a hug, like, ‘You saved my life!’ There have been little issues like that: electrocutions, stitches, all the traditional shit. What’s unhappy is that folks could have heard issues that occurred, however they didn’t see the weeks of therapeutic and what actually went on. It’s dangerous, man. There are quite a lot of bruises, however fuck all of it.”
