KoRn was formed in 1993 with the
combination of two bands: Sex Art and LAPD. Sex Art was the band
who Jonathan Davis (lead singer of KoRn) lead during his years as
a coroner (he also graduated mortuary school in San Francisco.)
LAPD was the band which included James Schaffer (guitar), David
(drums), Fieldy (bass) (later) and on tour only (not on the
album) Brian (also guitar). LAPD was apparently bigger then Sex
art and is not impossible to find (like Sex Art is). Munky states
that "Me, Fieldy, and David recorded it when we were about
18 or 19. You might even hear some KoRn parts. That's when I
played rippin' Solos." Jonathan was only in Sex Art for
about four months and did only one song with the lead singer
which is on a Bakersfield compilation.
Jonathan Davis' nickname is HIV as a sort of agreement with the
faget term he was dubbed in high school. He does not, in fact,
have AIDS or the HIV virus. Jonathan was expecting
(astrologically) a baby girl, but at delivery Jonathan was only
slightly surprised to see, as he put it, "pink balls,"
and he had come away from the girls name Salaam Dementia and
named him Nathan Housemen Davis (Housemen being Jonathan's middle
name, as well). He and his son live in Huntington Beach
California, in what he calls a relatively gay community,
"where instead of people acting cool and carrying guns, they
come up to you and say hi." Jonathan was born January 18th,
25 years ago, and recently had a birthday. His ex-girlfriend is a
very attractive woman, but is perceived as seeing herself as gods
gift to the world. He did the album in his fathers studio as he
says, under his breath, "as a sort of revenge."
We asked Jonathan a few questions on Marilyn Manson and he said,
"he and I are like best friends. I've been to his house a
couple of times. We hit it off right away when I met him the
first time. In fact, I think we're going to do a side project.
Yeah, we're going to call ourselves 'fags' and write songs about
how much we like big dick." Well, the latest news on
"Fags" doesn't seem to be promising. Jon said, "he
and I are really busy and haven't had the time to get together.
Maybe after our tours are done."
Then, I asked him about his tattoo. He thought I meant HIV, and
said, "its just a nickname." I then asked him about the
crazed bishop and he said "the bishop is a symbol of the
atrocities that religion is making. He's ripping up my skin to
reveal Christ. It's more of a symbol of how corrupt religion is.
I don't believe in any of it because of shit like televangilism.
Do you really think that all that money really goes to
charity?"
Jon did a few of his own songs. One called, "My
Neighbor." It had clips from the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
show. He wanted to let the band listen to it, but he lost the
tape. They were going to make a KoRn song out of it. When asked
about it, he said, "I can't release it with KoRn, I'd have
to do it alone," almost admitting he has found it.
We asked him about signatures from the drummer, David, and he
said, "he doesn't do that shit. He's shy. He like
hides." (Brian said, "Jon's weird I don't know were he
is.")
We then asked him about their experience with Megadeth.
"Mustane was a dick. They were always blaming us for shit.
We weren't alowwed to carry beer around stage because he was a
recovering alcoholic. So we filled water bottles with it and
taped around them so you couldn't see what was in them. Once he
came on our tour bus, after he fell off the wagon, piss drunk,
and said, 'you know what you need to do to get big?... (at this
point we were dodging his swaying finger that was pointed at us)
...Only tour with big bands.'
"We were supposed to be touring (on the Monster Magnet and
Grotus tour) with Deftones and Sugar Ray, but it got fucked up...
Sugar Ray is in Europe or some shit and Deftones is with Anthrax.
Chino (lead singer of Deftones) is God. Marilyn Manson was
supposed to be on tour with us with Ozzy but they didn't want to
open for a band that opened for them." He then told us he
particularly doesn't enjoy touring with Monster Magnet, because
their performance is so "old rock". "We're touring
with Ozzy, but we don't like playing big places. It's so
impersonal. We like to be close to the people. It's a better
performance, although I keep getting hit in the head by my mic
when people fall on stage." (Jon also said he loves it when
people come on stage.) Brian signs his name "Head."
Fieldy: Q: what do you like about touring clubs?
A: the free beer.
Fieldy (Reggie Arvizu) is known for his alcohol related antics.
For instance, on a photo shoot, a bucket had to be found in case
he threw up. Fieldy is the joker. On the album, you can notice
his name is Fieldy Snuts. (feel deez nuts)
David (Silveria): While David was handing out the shoots promo to
some people after the show, I asked him who Sean Olson was and he
said, "he was a friend of the bands." He is also
thanked by the Deftones in their album. (he's currently one of
their roadies). David has a penis fetish and usually when he
signs shit he makes a dick somewhere on it. He has two tattoos
one of them a cheshire cat and the other has a guy stickin out
his tongue that has a bolt through it.
James Shaffer: On the Sony page you read about how Munky started
playing the guitar. He cut his finger off and used the instrument
to rejuvenate it. Well, he told me how he cut his finger off.
When he was younger, he had a three wheeler. One night, when he
was sneaking out to go to a party, the chain slipped off. Not
thinking (he wanted to quieten it, so he wouldn't get busted), he
slapped his hand down on a chain and it got caught between the
chain and the sprocket. When he pulled his hand up, he was
missing a finger. He is enjoying the Ozzy tour but still likes
small clubs better.
Jonathon is into Duran Duran, claiming them to be glam, but they
don't sell out, but on the tour bus the band is known to listen
to LL Cool J and Black Sheep. In fact, in concert, during a
version of Predictable, called 'predick,' they do a part of a
Black Sheep song called, "U mean I'm Not." They also do
a reversion of Ball Tongue with a rap in it by another rap group.
When asked about the Deftones, KoRn says, "Deftones are like
our brother band. When we were in California, they were from
North, we from the South, we used to switch up and down the coast
and when we play together we usually do a song together."
La Caco is a friend of the band and is heard in the beginning of
Helmet in the Bush. His real name is Michael and likes Taco Bell.
He's a really nice guy. He's been friends with the band for
years.
Ball Tongue: The meaning of balltongue is simple, some thought it
had to do with oral sex, but in fact its about a guy they had to
work with on a T-shirt. He either had a pierced tongue or a wart
or something on his tongue and he was a dick to them.
David said that the baby inside the album behind where the CD
goes (and on the cover of the Blind promo) is the charmin' baby.
They put a wig on it and fucked with its eye.
The name KoRn comes from a party that Jonathan was at where he
overheard two homosexuals talking about felching each other
(eating each others asses.) One had diarreah and shat on the
others face and when he opened his mouth a corn kernel was on his
tongue. From then on, whenever he said corn to anyone, they would
get close to puking.