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That was good! On See You On The Other Side, we wrote in
a particular way, which was in the control room.
A lot of magic happens when we're all just - the four of us - are together, jammin'.
Fieldy and I start jammin'. One of these guys will jump in and say, "That's cool!" - play
that a few more times until it evolves into something that's really cool and different
or unusual. You know, it draws some sort of melody in
Jon's head, or a particular drum beat or bass-line. Anything that was different - we would keep
that idea. Like, we would record into Pro Tools and grab the thing that we normally
wouldn't ever grab and make a song out of that.
That sounds great, too. That's almost in tune with it.
The group turns around and goes straight (?). We gotta do that ending longer, too. (Yeah.)
This is called working out the bugs, pre-tour ****. (More in the headphones.)
It's definitely a huge production to get a tour off the ground. I don't think anyone
really realizes how many people it takes and how much time it takes to get everything going,
but it takes a couple months of five-days-a-week solid work (mmhmm) to get a tour off the ground.
Getting our lighting designers, new lighting plots, and come up with a light show. Sound
guys come in and work on the stuff they do. There's a whole bunch of stuff that goes into
it. Pretty much the same crew. It hasn't really
changed that much. We all look out for each other out there - it can get crazy out there
and, umm, these guys have turned into our family that I think we're on the road all
these times throughout the years that these are the people we spend most of the time with
- more than our own families, so... ...holidays, birthdays... Everything. And
we've gone through everything (through Hannukah). You get really tight. You become family like
that. There's about thirty people in this room right
now, ready to do it, but they're over there. They're on that side of the camera, on the
other side. They don't get to go on the stage. It's our
stage. Scott Tatter, monitors, korn. Best job in
the world - coolest band in the world to work for.
SHOCKINGLY loud so it's fun for me. David, the drummer, has an in-ear mix, but
he also has six 18s, four 14s, 3600 watts worth of thumpers in his chair.
Everybody else, well - it's just loud, loud man. It's old school. There's a rock band
up here. This is the middle of the 9th year since,
uh, umm... Family Values tour is the first tour I did
on full-time. I was doin' uhh... workin' for Ozzy Osbourne and these guys were the opening
act in '94. And that's where I met 'em and then we got a chance together and I've been
with 'em ever since. I am virtually speechless, when I think about
it, how lucky I am. Best job - there's no better job in rock 'n' roll than with Korn.
Doesn't exist. I'm Bill Sheppell, the front-of-house engineer.
Uhh, I've been with the guys since uhh... Life Is Peachy. That makes about nine years,
hopefully get nine more. I'm hopin' this is the start of another nine or ten.
If you come to the show, what you hear is, if it's good it's me.
If it's bad, I'm gonna blame it on somebody else, but yeah.
It's - it's uhh, you know - it's... I know the music, probably, as well or better than
some of the guys and certainly as far just 'cause I know all the parts at once, you know.
I've done the songs - mixed the songs so long and it's really automatic. I mean - Scott,
the monitorer, jokes I never even look up because I know what they're gonna do.
I used to be the stage, uhh, monitor and engineer. I like both ends of the snake, but uhh, I
like being out here - it's creative. As far as uh, gettin' crazy out here - some
good crowds - certain cities fire up every time.
(Distorted screaming). KORN! It gets exciting when the beers start flying
once in a while over the console, but it's cool.
Music do! Music do! Music do! He's known as CareBear. I knew him for three
years before I knew his name was chris. I'm CareBear and I do Reggie's bass. I was
Head's tech. You know, I've done other things, too - almost
every single position that you could work for the band (haha), I've done it, like driving
the truck - like, uhh, production assistant, guitar tech, band assistant.
Uhh. I don't think - I did monitors my first job. Uhh - I haven't done lights.
I had a rehearsal studio in Huntington Beach that they started at, basically before they
were signed, and they got signed and... It just took off, snowballed, and they... took
me with 'em. They're the best people to work for.
I wouldn't work for anybody else, really. TWISTED TRANSISTOR!