fieldy autobiography

ummm, so fieldy, the bass player from korn wrote an autobiography.  no, i'm not kidding.  i read about it on the internet, it must be true.  it's titled something about addiction and faith etc... 

regardless, i felt as if i should share some stories you won't read in this sure to be masterpiece about mr. fieldy.  or maybe you will.  or maybe you would never read this book ever in a million years.  i'm sure its the latter.  regardless, i thought it would be fun.  

my last band, instruction, spent some time on the road with korn.  generally it was a great experience.  we were treated very well.  we ate, we drank and we kicked major ass as much as we could playing for a rather hostile crowd in arena's with no light show and traveling 12-16 hours a day in the van.  backstage was always interesting.  i want to state for the record, jonathan and munki were very nice and accommodating.  we really didn't interact with the rest of the band, except fieldy.  well, sort of.  when we were on project revolution a few months earlier, we heard a great story from one of the members of the used about their evening on fieldy's bus. apparently he had korn live playing on each of his plasma screen tv's and his very own solo record playing over the stereo....hmmmm.  i tried to imagine myself doing such a thing but couldn't fathom it.  i wouldn't even do it in private.  maybe he really likes what he does?  maybe i should envy him? 

fast forward a few months and here we are out with korn again.  as i remember this story, i was walking backstage in one of the many hockey arena's we played and fieldy was walking towards me.  as i approached, he turned, faced the wall and waited till i walked by before continuing down the hall.  now, if we hadn't witnessed other peripheral acts of douchiness, i would've written this off as hazing the opening bands but i doubt very highly he had a clue who the opening bands were, let alone knowing them by sight individually.  this one stuck in my mind, as he did it to other members of our crew.  i get being rockstar.  i get it.  he is rich, famous and way more successful than i could ever imagine being but this was just weird.  this is why i would actually go out and read that autobiography.  maybe he'll talk about how he developed his revolutionary bass sound.  :)

listen to phil collins "hello, i must be going" and "face value".  get over it!!  they are great records!