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 Munkey
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). Munkey 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 sssay 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 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 are 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 Brian about another album and he said, "we are writing
now and we have some shit done,but we can't record until we stop
touring." We asked him about what else is out there from KoRn. "We have
the 'Shoots Remix.' That's cool. Did you hear it after the show? That
should be out soon. We are going to be releasing the promo and demo shit
to soon."
We then asked him about their experience with Megadeth. "Mustane was
a dick. They were always blaming us for shit. We weren't aloud 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."