Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg was joined by members of Royal Thunder, High on Fire and more on a quarantine cover of Bruce Springsteen‘s “Candy’s Room.”
The performance was a Father’s Day gift to Weinberg's father Max, who has been a member of Springsteen's E Street Band since 1974. “Candy’s Room” originally appeared on Springsteen’s 1978 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town.
Jay joined Slipknot in 2014, having already been a huge fan of the group. There are photos of Max bringing a pre-teen Jay backstage to meet the band at a concert in New Jersey.
Max told us a while back that he was proud of the way his son picked up the drums so quickly: “What can I say? I'm very proud. He did it all by himself. He did all the work. I never taught him how to play the drums. He basically taught himself, and he's like a prodigy or something. And I give my wife more credit than me. But maybe it's the genes. I don't know, it could be genetic.”
In other Slipknot news, singer Corey Taylor says he's working on a coffee table book featuring the craziest quotes from his bandmate, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan.
In an interview on Knotfest.com, Taylor explained, “The great thing about Clown, and people who know him will back me up on this is his — God, how do I phrase it — his liberal use of changing phrases that we’ve all used for years, and basically bending them to his will . . . his style with the English language is something to be admired and the world is really going to get a taste of unfiltered Clown.”
Taylor said that the book will be called These Words Mean Nothing, adding, “I’ve been keeping a list for over 20 years now, and it is quite long, of just the crazy stuff that he has said over the years, like the way he will change a saying, and it feels like he messed it up, but he’ll repeat it, and be like, ‘Well, this is actually what I meant.'”
