JD speaking about KoRn's scene

BLABBERMOUTH.NET - KORN Frontman Says DAVE MUSTAINE Was 'Mean' To Him In 1995: Mike Sullivan of ExploreMusic recently conducted an interview with KORN frontman Jonathan Davis. You can now watch the chat below.

When asked about KORN's 1995 tour as the support act for MEGADETH, Davis said, "It was hard touring with MEGADETH because at that time [MEGADETH mainman] Dave Mustaine was really mean and just had attitude. It was scary being on there. I was drinking at the time and I got him drinking again, which I shouldn't have done, but that was Dave Mustaine and I was this young, little kid, and I'm like, 'That's Dave Mustaine and he wants to drink. I'll give him a drink.' I respected him and everything, but I kind of got my feelings hurt, because he was mean at times. I don't have any ill will towards the guy now, 'cause you know how it is — now you're older and you're wiser — but at the time it was really scary. And plus, we were pissed off at getting all these metal tours. We went from DANZIG — which was cool, 'cause it was kind of different — and then we went with OZZY [OSBOURNE] and with MEGADETH... At the time no one knew where to put us, so we were doing tours with KMFDM to MEGADETH, fuckin' PENNYWISE... [They] didn't know what to do with us. At that time we weren't a metal band, and we still to this day have fit into any kind of scene; no one scene calls us their home. You've got bands like SLIPKNOT and bands like that, they're part of a scene — that's a metal scene and they've got their diehard fan base. But we've never fit in anywhere; we've been this black sheep for so long. Some metal fans like us, some metal fans hate us because we're not technical 'MESHUGGAH metal,' you wanna call is, you know what I mean?! So it's been kind of fucked — we've been floating around in this... but that's KORN, so it was cool, but... When I heard that we were gonna go on that tour, I was pissed off. I was like, 'Man, why do we keep going out with these old-school bands? I wanna do something different."

---

1 comment | Labels: interview,jonathan hiv davis,video