Paul Gray Dead, Bassist of Slipknot

[Bodzilla]

Good man this fella, i'll miss him he defined alot of the music when i was growing up.

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Heres a good interview with him

[Cagerrin]

Well that suc-

"bassist of slipknot"

I feel a bout of apathy coming on.

[Bodzilla]

he was at the core of revolution in Music to be honest.

Slipknot like it or not Changed Metal in alot of very profound ways.

[Cagerrin]

not for the better as far as I can hear, but music=subjective etc.

don't particularly care about changing music, genre, etc, I just listen to stuff semi-randomly and stop listening if I dislike it.

[Eleven]

Listened to this band a lot when I was younger - he was a pretty talented bass player.

I hope his wife is alright. She's expecting their child later in the year. :smith:

[PlasbianX]

Seeing their live interview they did last night was quite sad.. every single member of the band spoke except one, and they were all crying the entire time. Seeing Corey and Joey cry was just.. really sad.

[SiriusTexra]

he was at the core of revolution in Music to be honest.

Slipknot like it or not Changed Metal in alot of very profound ways.


Sorry dude, I liked slipknot as much as the next guy, infact, was obsessed for a few years, but that is a load of horseshit.

Revolution, please. They took notes from all their peers at the time and simply created a combination. They were enthusiastic about their goals, that's great.

But they did not create or do anything new with the medium or revolutionize it. It's just rock music in another form. It still has the same structure and motifs as everything else. I thought they were the limit and the be all, but I simply hadn't heard everything yet.

It any band did anything to metal after the 80's, it was KoRn, Fear Factory, Meshuggah. Anyone after them, doing newer metal styles took notes. But even then. All these bands take bits and pieces from whoever came before them and they did new things with them too.



Also, tbh, Paul wasn't that great a bassplayer. I think his real skill was songwriting. That demands his applause and attention, rather than his given role in the band, because the first slipknot album is flawless from start to finish, and he spearheaded that albums writing process in his basement where they all did it. Not one slightly "eh" moment.

The newer ones however....


Still, I'm kind of passed them, but the first album will allways be good, regardless of what I think of them now. I think they're overproduction and marketing stratgies completely go in a different direction to what they stood for when they started. I'm sure they rationalize it and sleep well at night, but the Slipknot becoming a "brand" is just disgusting. A logo, an image, a name for it's fans. Cmon, it's all very strategic.

Then again, one could say that they were always sellouts, just cashing in on what was going at the time, Korn/Deftones/Fear Factory sound being that. Never going to be known for sure. They were probably never even aware they were doing it.

Corey Taylor's singing voice also mimmicks that of the Stone Temple Pilots singer. I mean, he even called his band, that sounds like stone temple pilots STONE sour.

Really, they're just music fans who were inspired and made great stuff with their inspiration. However, inspiration, turned into a motivation, rather than a self evolving goal for quality and friendship. That, and they're just repeating themselves. Making the same sounding music so to not stray outside of their fanbase and lose money etc.

That's why I really give kudos to Silverchair. They knew they were "Supposed" to be grunge, but they're tastes changed, and they weren't afraid to make the music they liked to hear at that point in time. In came trumpets and orchestrals, completely percussionless piano pieces. You know it was real music, not pumped out "something".


That's my 2 cents.

Sucks for a human being with such creative ability to go though. Unfortunately of late he didn't seem to be doing anything new with it.