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| Korn... in their words Up close with Fieldy Q:What's really amazing about the music of KORN is that you really created this really intense hybrid sound that has elements of hip-hop, it has elements of Brain Eno experimentation. Why don't you tell us about what goes into the creation of the KORN sound--what happens during the writing process? A:I think everybody puts in their own distinctive part. I guess that's what it is. Most of the time when we write, DAVID, MUNKY, HEAD and I will do all the music and then JON will come in and he won't write lyrics immediately--he'll sing a melody of just nonsense words and write lyrics later. On this album, we were getting JON to try writing lyrics without having a melody first. We were just playing along with his words and let a melody come out as the words were flowing. So we did a little bit of different stuff on this album. We actually wrote a couple of music parts around a melody that he already had. That's different from all the other albums--trying new things. Musically, when we're writing, I think everybody helps each other. Sometimes, MUNKY will be working on something and I'll tell him to try this pedal or something. We help each other especially if we're having problems. Q:Do you write with the philosophy that if you can't play something in concert, you don't record it? A:Everything we do on the album, we do live. If we can't pull it off live, then we don't record it on the album. Q:What do you personally contribute to KORN's sound and to FOLLOW THE LEADER in particular? A:My sound is more like a drummer. I'm a percussion-sounding bass player. A lot of times people think that what they're hearing is drums and it's actually in the bass. For instance, when Les Claypool (of Primus) heard some of the new stuff, like “B.B.K.,” he said, “That's a pretty cool double kick!” And it wasn't, it was my bass. On the business side of KORN, I do all the T-shirt designs for KORN, all the merchandise, like the hats and stickers. All the merchandise you see. That's all me. I think everybody could do it. I think everybody's just lazy. So I end up being the one that does it all. I come up with a bunch of designs, show them to the band. They either approve or disapprove. Q:What's your favorite new sound or technique that you used for the first time on this album? A:I think my favorite thing was the bass synthesizer. It's a pedal. You can give it pretty much any kind of sound you want. I use it a lot on the new album. Now everybody can go out and buy it and start bitin' my style. Q:How do you feel the production was different on this album than it was on the last album? A:I guess we had a budget of $500,000 rather than $150,000. That's production right there. If you have money, then you can make things happen. Of course, it's gonna sound better, ‘cause we had a bigger budget. We also just got out of a 1902 studio and moved into an updated 1998 studio. Pretty much all of us put the modern technology to use. We broke out all the new pedals and effects and crap like that. i got this interview, and all the others from KoRn. |
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