- All five members of KoRn are
from Bakersfield "B-Town," California.
- Bakersfield is an agragian mining
community, located at the nethermost point of California’s San Joaquin
Valley. The outskirts of town are ripe with citrus groves,
vineyards, almond blossoms, and dairy cows put out to pasture.
In which 1/3 of breadwinners make their living off the land.
- Bakersfield was a huge country
music mecca. Now more of Rock Mecca. Producing such bands as Orgy,
Adema, Videodrone, Karmahitlist (new band formed after the break up of
Videodrone, Ty Elam as singer, a close friend of Jonathan from his
first band, Sexart), and of course, KoRn!!
- KoRn was a jeopardy question.
The question was "the name of the song by KoRn, about an untrustworthy
neighbor".
The answer was "Mr. rogers" then Alex (host) said "who can hate Mr.
Rogers?" :)
- Munky, Brian, Fieldy, and David
used to party in Bakersfie;d's notorious "dirt fields".
- During filming of "Clown", a
locker fell on Munky. Luckily, he was not hurt, so they
continued shooting.
- When asked what’s your most
traumatic childhood experience they said:
- Jonathan -
"when my parents broke up, I was like 3. I was shuttled off to my
grandparents, to mom, back and forth"
- Head -
"When I threw up on the floor when I real sick, and my legs flew out
from under me and i landed in a big pile of throw up"
- Munky -
"When my father held me down, and cut my long hair off"
- David -
"My great grand mother dying"
- When asked what's your
favorite place to play live is, they said:
- Jon-
"A tie between Chicago, and Cleveland"
- Munky-
"Seattle, or New York"
- David-
"St.pete, or Detroit
- Head-
"I don't know. There’s so many"
- When asked what their favorite
childhood toy was their response was:
- Jon-
"Robotron"
- Munky-
"A tonka tanker truck"
- Fieldy and
David- "Green machine"
- Head-
"Barbie"
- 1 in 10 KoRn fans claim that
KoRn's music has saved them from suicide.
- Fieldy cleaned carpets, David
worked at Pizza Hut, and Brian and Munky worked at a furniture-moving
company, while in Creep and LAPD
- On Tour, KoRn is stocked with an
arsenal of alcohol that would put Liquor Mart to shame and enough
porno magsto fill an adult bookstore, the tour bus has all the makings
of home. Their CD collection for the tour bus features the likes of
the Village People and Blondie.
- According to Brian, Megadeth's
guitar playing frontman was a consummate "dick". (Jonathan) "the other
Mega-guys were cool; it was that Dave guy. There were all these rules.
We almost got kicked off the tour for throwing some water at the
crowd. It was ridiculous."
- When KoRn was making Self titled,
they argued over it many times. Though Life is Peachy was much
smoother, taking only a few days to write..
- Coal Chamber's nick name is "KoRn
jr". Tool, Sugar Ray, Deadsy, Orgy, Incubus, The Urge, and Soul Fly
are also friend of the band.
- Jonathan: "We’ve got metal
fans, alternative fans, Goth fans, punk fans, and hardcore kids. You
go to one of our headlining shows, you see all kinds of people. I like
that. It shows that kids don’t listen to us because it’s cool."
Fieldy's response: "I remember calling my girlfriend a couple of times
and saying like, ‘You should see the crowd.’ I don’t know, man, it was
like they were out of the eighties."
- Silverchair were great fans, so
much so that they put KoRn stickers on their instruments.
Whenever David and Jonathan would run into the underaged rockers, they
would invariably attempt to ply them with drink. But since Silverchair
never ventured far outside the watchful gaze of their parents, all
such efforts were failures.
- Deftones won't tour with KoRn
now, because they are sick of being "a KoRn band". Though KoRn, and
the Deftones, are still friends.
- Orgy's lead singer, Jay Gordon,
was Sexart's guitarist
- On the Sick and Twisted tour, the
Seattle concert was recorded, as the loudest concert ever.
- Two of KoRn’s favorite hard-rock
outfits are Sepultra (Jonathan even appears on "Lookaway" with
Sepultra) and Machine Head. These two bands supported KoRn’s sound
from early on.
- Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares
charged KoRn with "ripping off" his band. Jonathan retorted, "I hate
that jealous bitch. I heard he just got a seven-string guitar like us
and he’s wearing Adidas suits like me. I don’t understand it." The ill
will between the bands would continue, and was even rumored to have
escalated into full-blown physical combat on at least one occasion.
- KoRn has opened for KISS.
- When KoRn was first getting
played, MTV did not support KoRn at all. In fact they didn’t start to
play KoRn videos until Life is Peachy. Due to overwhelming
amount of demands for KoRn, MTV was forced to play KoRn.
- Munky attributed the phenomenon
of song writing for Life is Peachy as "a lot of creativity buildup,
like blue balls of creativity. In the studio it just kinda spewed
out."
- KoRn writes songs in an odd
manner; they all play around with their instruments, and the producer
(or cheerleader, as they affectionately entitle him/her) will have to
pick out something that sounds cool. "Somebody plays something and no
one says nothin’—everybody’s too lazy," admits Fieldy. "[Munky] could
play something cool and it’ll just go straight past ‘cause we’re too
busy being arrogant with ourselves. I’ll be busy playing my stuff, I
won’t even hear what he’s doing. We have to have somebody point it out
like, ‘What are you playing over there?’…All kinds of riffs go past
that might be good that we just don’t hear ‘cause anything we play we
don’t think is good…"
- On January 17th, 1996, Jonathan
was hanging out at Manhattan’s Whiskey Bar with a roadie and Ozzy’s
drummer. He drank like a man possessed. The drinking binge ended with
Jonathan toppling off his bar stool and stabbing his face with a
burning cigarette (which, incidentally, he continued to smoke as he
lay prostrate on the floor). "I woke up in the morning and I was so
f**king hungover. I was getting out of the bus and I fainted. They had
to get two people to carry me in. They dragged me in, like right in
front of Ozzy and Sharon, his wife, everybody. Just looking like,
f**ked up! I go to the stage, I faint again. They slapped me, threw me
onstage, and I pulled the show off. I don’t know how the hell I did
it. I didn’t know what words were coming next, I didn’t know what song
it was. I just f**kin’ closed my eyes. I’d been doing it for so long,
I pulled it off."
- Fieldy on the A.D.I.D.A.S. video:
"The only thing I didn’t like too much was being zipped up in that
body bag—and I didn’t like putting the contacts in my eyes. I guess
the worst part of the video was towards the end of the video when we
were laying on those tables for about five hours. It f**king sucked,
man! I don’t really think I would ever have the patience to act."
- Brian has joked that he hopes
"that Jonathan doesn’t get help; we’re screwed if he gets cured."
- KoRn was hailed as the long
awaited antidote for the Hanson epidemic.
- Life is Peachy was originally
called "Life is Pee-Chee" after the popular suppliers of school
utensils. Yet the name was copyrighted, and was renamed, "Life is
Peachy." One song on life is peachy was called pussy scab, but they
ultimately changed it as well.
- KoRn was supposed to play the UK
Ozzfest, but couldn't, since Head's wife was expecting. She ended up
delivering later.
- (Chicago Tribune record review
for Life Is Peachy) "If KoRn wasn’t so sarcastic about it, they could
have titled their second album Life Is Lunacy. Here we have an
assembly of twisted souls—perverts, psychopaths, and
paranoiacs—dramatized by the creepy multipersonal soliloquies of
singer Jonathan Davis. What emerges is an overload of troubled
emotion: thrashy hiphop, the vocal spasms of Davis and guitarist Head,
and a sound that is both grooved and jagged."
- Enertainment Weekly review)
"KoRn’s sophomore release may be of interest to mental-heath
professionals, but there is no reason for even the most twisted
thrash-metal fans to expose themselves to this fifty-minute
self-indulgent primal scream. Profanity-driven rants like the aptly
titled "K@#!" and "Kill You" undermine the band’s compelling fusion of
heavy riffs and tight hip-hop beats, leaving the impression that the
frontman Jonathan Davis is turning his well-publicized childhood into
a cheap marketing device." (Jonathan’s response) "Who’s this f**king
bastard to say that? These are my feelings you’re talking about and
I’m not putting my feelings out to make money at all. I’m putting my
feelings out for myself and other people; if I get money, that just
comes along with it, but I’m not one to be money-hungry. F**k them,
f**k those scared little bastards.
- At one stop on tour, the guys
were walking around the festival grounds, taking in the scenery, when
a group of fifteen cartgoers approached them. The laid-back musicians
went with the flow, talking to the fans mano a mano, and shaking their
hands. When their goings-on caught the attention of a nearby crowd,
KoRn suddenly found themselves besieged by hundreds of clamoring kids,
and fearing for their lives. Peace was restored only when security
arrived to throw the rockers a lifeline. In retrospect, David had to
admit that "that was a pretty good feeling, just to see these crazy
kids think that our dumb asses were cool enough to do that."
- At the Kerrang! Awards Ceremony
in London in August 1997, the band received the award for Best Album
for Life Is Peachy. Aside from wining his first award, Jonathan also
managed to run into his first rock idol, Duran Duran frontman Simon Le
Bon.
- KoRn's favorite brand of
deodorant is speed stick, because it goes on dry. Though Munky’s
favorite brand is old spice.
- Nathan Cox is a long time friend
to KoRn and especially Jon. He also produced Who then now and shot
Videodrone's "Ty Jonathan down" video.
- There were arguments about
featuring "Got the Life" for the debut of Follow the Leader. The
arguments were rooted in the hard rockers’ phobia of all things disco.
(Head) "I don’t know, man. I don’t know if we should put this (Got the
Life) on the record. People are gonna be like ‘You f**king pussies’."
Also, Got the life's main guitar riff was made when Head and Munky
took apart a Blondie song and changed it around, go figure.
- Freak on a leash is #20 on the
most expensive music videos.
- No matter what the lyrics might
someday spark in the mind of little Nathan, "My Gift to You" went over
great in the Davis household.
- MTV had a show called "12 angry
mothers", where the moms would either give a yes, or no for videos.
A.D.I.D.A.S. 12 NOs.
- Head, and Munky were asked: "How
do you keep from turning into a snob??"
- Munky -
"By remembering how it felt to be treated badly. Plus there are plenty
of people around being assholes to remind you not to be one"
- Head -
"I don't think we could be the popular type if we tried. Not
me, personally. I'm not like that. If I'm in a bad mood one day, I
might not be friendly, but it's not because I think I'm cool"
- (Fred Durst) "KoRn bet me five
hundred dollars that I wouldn’t sing ‘Faith’ naked. So ‘Faith’ came
up, and I ran to the side of the stage and stripped buck-naked, except
for my Kangol hat and my Adidas shoes. I was not at my most proud
naked moment. Next thing you know, I’m looking on the Internet and
there’s a picture of it. But I got five hundred bucks!"
- During the Family Values, KoRn
and Limp Bizkit played all in the family, but could never finish the
song, since in the middle would get into little wrestling matches on
the stage. Every member from both bands played the song.
They would take turns playing their parts of the song.
- On March 5, 1998, Eric VanHoven, an eighteen-year-old high school
junior at Michigan’s Zeeland
High School, was issued a suspension from Assistant Principal Gretchen Plewe. Why? He wore a
KoRn T-shirt to school. Hewes said, "The group called KoRn is one of
three groups that I’m
familiar with that have extremely offensive lyrics. KoRn is indecent,
vulgar, obscene, and intends to
be insulting. It is no different than a person wearing a middle finger
on their shirt." The incident
made KoRn front-page news and all over America high-school students
expressed disapproval for
Michigan’s authoritarian regime. While Eric VanHoven might not have
expected to come to his
rescue, they did just that. When they found out about it, KoRn tore
themselves away from their
album long enough to talk to their lawyers. "We just thought it was
ridiculous, beyond ridiculous,"
Fieldy explained. "It’s like, ‘What the f**k—what’s this world coming
to? You can’t wear a
T-shirt that has a name on it?’ I can understand if it said ‘F**k’ or
something like that, but it was
like saying ‘Korn’ is like saying ‘f**k’ or ‘sh*t’." In response to
the assistant principal’s
admonitions, the band demonstrated that hell hath no fury like KoRn
scorned. After
teleconferencing with their lawyers and managers, the group issued a
statement denouncing
Assistant Principal’s moralizing. Going still further, they slapped
the school district with a
cease-and-desist order, instructing the assistant principal to either
abstain from making any more
defamatory comments about their band, or to prepare for a
multi-million dollar lawsuit. And as if
that was not bad enough, the group then commissioned the production of
five hundred KoRn
T-shirts with the First Amendment and the words "Except in Michigan"
printed on the back, and
dispatched the lot to Zeeland High. "We contacted the local radio
station and they took the
T-shirts down to the school," recalled Jonathan, clearly relishing the
memory. "They said that the
cops were there because they thought there was going to be a riot. But
it ended up that all the cops
handed out all the KoRn T-shirts to the kids. It was awesome."
- When KoRn played at the
Family Values Tour 98 during Halloween, they dressed up. A cover of
Spine magazine featured KoRn wearing, Munky suits, but spine was
digitally put the suits on them. KoRn never dressed up in those
costumes. Jon said that they were f**ked over, and they hate the
magazine, and that every thing in the magazine about them was complete
bull sh*t.
- KoRn got no love at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival. Jonathan said of the
music of another band on the
bill, "Goddamn Ben Folds Five sucks. It’s f**king Cheers music."
Fieldy’s attempts to make
friends with Garbage’s Shirley Manson (by repeatedly sticking a
noise-emitting key chain in her
face) didn’t go over too well. In a drunken plight one night, Jonathan
proved that even naughty
boys need love, too. "We go to these goddamn festivals, and no f**king
goddamn band will love
us. We get no f**king love at all. It’s like we’re in our own little
world. We’re not that goddamned
scary. What the goddamn f**k? For once in my life, please love me: I’m
in KoRn."
- Touring in Europe: Fieldy
doesn’t like touring in Europe and said that he'll never go back
again. Head doesn’t like Europe because there’s " no Taco bell."
Head and Fieldy said that Europe is really depressing
- On Sick and Twisted tour, Fieldy
dropped his bass right before his "solo", but he picked it up right
before his solo.
- The last song they performed on
the Sick and Twisted tour was "It's Gonna go away".
- (Critique of Follow the Leader by Spin Magazine) "KoRn scare all the
right people—critics and faculty—but resonance is only supposed to be
a beginning, not an end in
itself. They don’t have to grow up, they don’t have to achieve
‘closure’, but if they’re not going to
make good records, what’s the point of going through all that
therapy?" Spin Magazine = dumbness
- On the 1999, Family Values Tour,
KoRn came out dressed in 80s rock band clothing, on their
Halloween concert. They played "Rock you like a hurricane" by the
scorpions, and "were not gonna take it" by twisted sister.
- KoRn hated doing the family
values 98 tour, since, the managers wouldn’t give them a break.
Jonathan developed a mental sickness from it, and it was breaking
apart the band . KoRn almost broke up on the Family Values 98 (thank
God they didn’t!)
- Shawn Smith, a Bakersfield
tattooist, did Jon's and David's tattoos. (good job too!)
- Munky's takes a crap every time
before a show for good luck.
- Head gives Fieldy a kick in
the butt, before each show
- Jon, and Fieldy have a habit of
throwing up before a live show.
- For Jonathan’s bachelor party, he
hired Matt Zane, the creative force behind such triple-X classics as
"Backstage Sluts" I and II. Zane had been a long time friend of
Jonathan by that time. "He does fresh, new sh*t," raved Jonathan.
Jonathan reminisced, "Then there was, like, an eight-girl orgy, and I
was right in the middle."
- The only thing proved at the Big Day Out festival was that if KoRn
wanted to enjoy themselves
while in transit, they had better pick the bands themselves. Not only
did Courtney Love turn out to
be less than amiable, but Marilyn Manson did a complete about face,
going so far as to actually
bash KoRn during his performance (calling Nathan a bastard etc..) and baiting Jonathan to—among other
things—suck his
member. Courtney Love went in for more of the same, saying "I really
like picking on KoRn. I sort
of turned it into an art form, and it made me really happy to pick on
them, but then I realized that
Jonathan is just kind of this loser, weak, sweet little guy."
(Jonathan, in response) "I thought it was
funny, because both those bands are so bitter and jealous towards us
that all they did was talk
about us and I just keep hearing all this talk. It was just getting
ridiculous. Courtney said that she
made an art out of picking on us, and Manson said a whole bunch of
stuff. I actually knocked him
out onstage. He called me out, he said some pretty bad things about
me in front of fifty thousand
people, and I took him out right there on stage. I felt pretty good
about myself when he was
whimpering at my feet." In fact, on several occasions,
Courtney Love actually had to lose
her shirt to get a rise out of the KoRn- and Manson-enamored
audiences. Love’s cognizance of her
own strictly limited appeal was evidenced by the question she kept
putting out to the audience: "I
can bring KoRn back, you know—do you want KoRn?"
- Jonathan: "The mainstream didn’t want anything to do with us until
this record. Even now, they
give us the least attention possible. They have to play us and write
about us because it’s gotten to
the point of where it hurts them to ignore us. See, nobody on the
inside really likes KoRn. I think
we’ll always be on the outside, and from that point we’re always
looking in."
- My gift to you", started out as
an outtake from Self Titled album. It was put on since it was to
"metally". It was later redone and put it on Follow the Leader. The
demo was called "Molested". But it sounds completely different.
- On the Show "Daria", a KoRn
poster was posted on the wall of Trent's room.
- Issues is About KoRn's career
the effect it has on their lives. "beg for me."
- KoRn Rocks!!!!
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