Chords for Slipknot - V8 Corey Interview

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_ _ _ [C] _ Who is Slipknot?
What do you mean by that?
I don't [Abm] understand the question.
Give it to me again.
What the hell are you talking about?
I don't understand what the hell you're saying.
Who is Slipknot?
I don't understand what the hell you're saying!
_ _ Okay, can you explain [G] to me about the band?
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, great. _
The band was started in 1995.
_ Nine people trapped in a very repressive place with no outlets, no life, basically.
And we turned all this _ aggression into a beautiful, sick noise.
So _ Slipknot is basically the sound in every kid's [Fm] head that has had enough [B] and they can't take it anymore.
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ It's very [Gb] popular in the US.
All your [G] aggressive kind of music is received very well.
How do you experience that?
Did you expect that? _
Not really.
I mean, I knew we would be popular, but I never had [Fm] any clue that it would [G] be like this.
It was _ _ great [Gb] to feel that [Ebm] all these kids really believed in what we [F] were doing and that [Gb] we weren't the only people on the planet that [N] felt like outcasts and misfits.
So when it [F] started getting bigger than we'd actually thought it was, we just had to pull [Ab] back and go, Jesus Christ, what the hell is going on here, man?
It was cool.
It was a great feeling.
What the hell was [B] going on?
I still don't know.
To this day, [A] man, it changes [Gb] every day.
[Ab] It's this [G] cataclysmic chemistry that just coaxes anarchy out of its [F] hole.
It's a beautiful [B] thing.
It's something to witness. _ _ _ _ _
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How _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] far do you go to [Gb] police your offense?
[A] We go as far as it [G] takes.
We bleed.
We burn.
We hurt.
We destroy ourselves and everything around us.
[E] We [G] go out there and we try to make sure that those kids have the best time of their lives because they come here [Ab] for almost, it's almost like a ritual.
They come [G] here because they need to unload everything that has been pent up in their lives, man.
They go out there and they completely lose their minds for an hour and a half.
And then when they walk outside and they have to go back into their lives again, it's almost like they can [Ab] take it because they've emptied [G] themselves of all the bad feelings, the hurt, the blackness.
It's _ [Gb] a responsibility, man.
We have to.
We have to do this because nobody [Abm] else is doing it.
For this [F] group in particular.
[G] _ And how far do the fans go to please you?
I tell you [N] what, man.
It _ doesn't matter what country you're in, man.
They go for it.
They really go for it.
And they need it.
They go crazy.
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About your mask.
This one [Bm] is very _ [Em] particular because the dreads are real.
They're [Gb] yours.
[N] I mean, look at this thing.
Look at this thing.
I mean, does this look like something you want to put on every day?
No.
This is something you put on when you mean it.
And I do it every day.
So stop calling my house.
These are real.
Yes.
Well, they were.
I shaved all the [G] hair off and stuck it in there.
[Ab] So they're all the real stuff.
Smell it. _
[Gm] I already did when I was over there.
I smelled them.
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But you make them [Cm] yourself, these masks.
You can probably work for [G] Hollywood, you know, after a career.
I don't think Hollywood wants anything more to do with us other than this.
And I think that's been [Gb] forced on them.
[Cm] You're the front man of [G] Slipknot.
Yes.
Because you write the lyrics? _ _ _
No, just because somebody had to do it.
You [Ab] know, somebody had to get up there and do it.
So it was me.
[Gb] _ They really [Ab] wanted you in the band when it already existed.
Yeah.
One night [E] they came [G] to the porn shop that I was working at and basically came in and made me sweat for about a half hour because they walked around the joint, didn't say one word to me.
And I was like, well, what the hell are they doing here?
What you know, what's what's the deal?
They finally came up.
[F] They asked me.
[C] And two weeks later I was in the band.
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[D] _ _ [C] _ [Abm] _ _ _ This _ [G] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Em] _ is the road manager, Roberto.
How you doing?
This is Roberto, director of publicity worldwide [Abm] for No Name Management and Slipknot, the greatest band in the world.
And [A] we're taking [Ab] you backstage here.
Slipknot has also a lot [Bb] of showbiz because I see the rotating stages.
That's [Bbm] correct.
We have several rises.
[Em] Clowns [F] riser rises up 10 feet, spins around [G] and Joey's goes in a 45 degree [Bm] angle, spins around and shows the pentagram as well.
And [N] then Chris Bane, his teeters in a 90 degree angle all the way around.
It's really [E] cool.
It's like because they really [Db] enjoy rotating [G] and going out of their minds.
[Gm] No, there's nothing planned [Ab] here.
No?
[Bb] No.
[Gb] Straight up.
Straight up, huh?
Yeah, [Bm] straight up craze.
Was it very difficult _ with nine guys like this?
Hey, these are nine fucking [Gbm] maniacs.
It's always chaos.
Total chaos all the time.
And you [Bm] just saw them spit it out.
It's never a dull moment with these guys.
[N] Everything's always changing.
It's total chaos 24-7.
What drives you mad?
I mean, you're like their father or babysitter, hardcore babysitter.
Professional [Bm] babysitter. _ _ _
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_ I'm glad it was not in [N] my face, but in that camera.
Was that a nice [Abm] thing to do?
Absolutely.
A nice slipknot thing?
That is total slipknot.
He means well.
He says hello everybody.
I'm the clown.
Yeah, usually what he does is he'll take a quarter and you'll flip for a punch.
He'll flip the [Ab] quarter up and if you win, you get to punch him [G] in the face.
[E] If he wins, he punches you in the face. _
Okay, so you're [G] going to flip the coin.
I'm going to flip it.
The cameraman is going to flip the coin.
Cameraman can [C] flip.
I'm out.
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Something really bad happened?
[Dbm] Somebody got injured maybe?
[C] Oh, us?
Oh, God.
I could list [G] them.
We injure ourselves all the time, but it's all for the good.
It's all for the dance.
It's all part of the hospital.
Well, you know, Sean, just on this tour, Sean slammed his head into some kind of pipe and knocked himself out.
He had to go get stitches, which is funny.
[C] _ [E] So he doesn't need a mask anymore?
[G] Oh, no, he always needs a mask.
You want to keep a mask on him at all times.
He's just kind of a gross, _ [B] grizzly-Adams-looking [F] guy.
I can't say [G] any more without him punching me, though.
[E] When are you coming back for the people who haven't seen the show?
It might be this [G] year.
Probably this year.
It probably won't be for _ _ four to six [Ab] months, but we will definitely be back because [N] we always come back.
Tell them we'll be back.
We will always be back.
I promise.
So don't freak out and be [D] running all over the place, telling people that we're not coming back, because we are.
And there's nothing you can do about it! _ _