SLIPKNOT's DJ Sid Wilson - "When The Time Comes, Forces Will Bring Us Back Together Again"
August 31, 2010, 14 years ago
According to a new Billboard interview, SLIPKNOT's DJ Sid Wilson is preparing to step out from behind his turntable, take off his mask and put away the aliases - #0, Ratboy, DJ Moonboots, DJ Starscream - in order to launch a solo career as... SID WILSON.
"When I see people, whether they're strangers or fans or friends or whatever, everyone is always like, 'Sid!,' " Wilson explains to Billboard.com's Gary Graff,. "There's not a lot of people going, 'Hey, DJ Starscream!' or 'Hey, #0!' Everyone is always, like, 'Sid!' at concerts, at DJ gigs, wherever. That's what I hear the public calling for, so I'm going to give that to them."Wilson says that Slipknot, in fact, has not spoken much about its future at all in the wake of bassist Paul Gray's death. "Before the incident everyone was getting ready to take a break from Slipknot and go work on their side projects for a little bit," says Wilson, with frontman Corey Taylor and James Root getting ready to release a new STONE SOUR album and drummer Joey Jordison fronting MURDERDOLLS after touring with ROB ZOMBIE. "Now we're trying to move forward and keep with the plans that we had prior to the incident."
But Wilson sounds hopeful that Slipknot will at some point reconvene and make a follow-up to 2008's All Hope Is Gone.
"When the time comes, forces will bring us back together again," he explains. "But as of now I can't even predict when that will happen. It's a magical thing, and you can't predict magic. It just summons itself and pulls you all together."Read the entire interview here.
