My favorite will always be the classic: “Ladies and Gentlemen, due to unfortunate circumstances Slipknot will not be performing this evening…” The crowd fucking boo’s and whines, then the lights go black and the show starts. 🔥
@@creatinecara This song was used to open concerts from The Subliminal Verses tour, following a staged announcement where the audience was told that "due to unforeseen circumstances, Slipknot will not be performing this evening." It's on the 9.0 Live Album
When I first seen Slipknot they never had a curtain, they just stood there for 5 minutes on stage then all hell broke loose. I'll miss them when they're gone.
@@shawnstrebeck2179 It's not about money as much as recognition, although they go hand in hand. You can do a lot more of these kind of shenanigans when you're the headliner than when you're on a festival stage or as a support act or whatever.
God I love Slipknot openers. Idc what kinda mood you're in, once you hear Cory's laugh while the opening music is being played, you just can't wait to hear the fireworks or cannon sounds that go off while the curtain drops. You'll be sober and think you're on some uppers at that moment!
kinda similar thing happened to my thoughts about Jusin Bieber too. Used to not like him on screen until i saw him live at an F1 show, still dont like him.
I've been going to concerts and festivals since the 1970s and seen some of the greats but absolutely hands down, head and shoulders above every other band, the best entrance and indeed the best show by far is from Rammstein. They are on a whole different level. Absolutely amazing band live.
You need to see Gojira bruv, they might not have cool fire and stuff, but they have the best live sound ever. Or see Skinless, where they pass out foam tubes in the audience and you whack each other with them.
I'm sorry to be that guy, but I absolutely hate the wave of phones. It's like those people aren't even there, they can't feel the energy, can't hear the music.
Growing up, my dad always listened to classical music. You know, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart. He also dug the Beatles. About 15 years ago, he sent me a CD with a note saying that it was his favorite band and that he's been going to their concerts every time they played anywhere near his hometown (Sacramento), and always tries to get in the first ten rows or so. I figured it had to be some kind of string quartet thing. Nope. Slipknot is still his fave and he's 83 today!!
I saw slipknot back in ‘99 when their first CD came out in a small music hall. One of the best damn shows I have ever seen. Also one of the loudest. Joey Jordison melted my face off.
Me too, I saw them October 99 and didnt get another chance to see them until October last year and March of this year. Im thinking about going to watch them in September when they play Dallas.
@Zerozerozero That era was great. They were a great band but not so huge that you could still hang out and talk with them. I saw most of them without their masks on and they were mostly real down to earth and personable.
Love Joey. He was the MVP of Slipknot. Truly. Sad the band dicked him. Jay does well I think. I've stopped listening to them since they did that to Joey. Check out Joey in the band Sinsaenum. Band he was in before he died. Love them.
yea i know when they played the one song with the girl singing i was so confused at first but then once they started to loop the song to make it sound like she is saying satan over and over again i already knew slipknot is about to start playing
I went to my 1st Slipknot concert last month and was lost when the country song came on..lol... found out they've been using Billie Jo Spears-" Get behind me Satan and push" as their intro for years now. Now I love it!!!
The whole show was awesome, best stage design and theatrics I’ve seen. Corey’s vocals couldn’t have been more powerful and the guitars and drums were sick. It looks like I was only sitting about 30 feet in front and to the right of you.
As an avid concert goer for over 40 years, my #1 face-melting show was AC/DC in the late 80s...until my teen daughter wanted to see Slipknot in 2019. That night, in Dallas, kicked AC/DC to #2. It was amazing to watch my kid have the time of her life. I laughed so much, my face hurt. We won't miss a Slipknot show. 🤘🏼🖤🤘🏿💥💥💥
I cant wait to take my kids to a show they're a little young yet but my little sister is 17 this year she's so foomg to see five finger death punch with me. I promised her slipknot but they not coming back to east coast again we missed rge show last month near pa where we live had free tickets and eveyrhijh but had to work. I've been printing her for slipknot since day she was born lol I'm 37 so she's half my age 😆 and I'm still rocking the knot. Lol
@@julieannsinger7489 I already got us tix to FFDP this summer. We saw them before but she is excited to see them with Megadeth, The Hu and Fire From the Gods, who will also play the show. I took her to see Mothership last weekend. She loves that Texas metal sound. So many awesome shows!
@@motorbreathjzHalloween night,1988. It was such a thrill...the old school, massive wall of speakers made us, in the pit, totally melt. I am sure my ears rang for days. 🤣 It was 🔥. 🤘🏼🖤🤘🏿.
I saw Slipknot open for a band at a small college auditorium in Chicago in maybe 1999. They opened for another band named Sister Soleil. I'd estimate there were 50 people there in the audience and I was sitting maybe 2 rows up into the auditorium. These guys were as heavy, costumed, and dedicated to their music then as they are today and as a musician myself, I absolutely knew they were destined for a much larger stage. About halfway through the concert, I noticed something flying through the air, as it broke through a bright beam of light coming off the stage and it hit me in the knee. It was a football helmet, presumably thrown from the stage. I recall being confused as hell as to why I was just pelted with a football helmet. Had I known its significance at the time and knowing what I know now, I should have kept it.
...and not one person moved that night, or they might have lost their cell phone. Also hard to believe these guys are a nostalgic band now. I still remember back in the late 90's when I just happened to be walking around Des Moines and I was approached by a Paul and Shawn from some metal band called Slipknot, and they gave me a flyer for their upcoming show, they were two of the nicest guys I met on that trip so far. I couldn't go because we had to keep going to Colorado, but I still imagine if I would have hung around until that Saturday night to see them. Mind you this was 1997 and I was only 19.
Nostalgia band no way the last album was killer and the next one will be better slipknot are getting better by the day unlike other metal bands of the past who went backwards
@@djjazzyjeff1232 "grandpa" this is coming from someone who probably has their phone glued to their hand 😂 I would hate to see what you would do if your parents took your phone away, probably throw a childish fit and melt.
Still blows my mind back in 1999 Ozzfest is when this band made their debut and wow it was intense in such a great way! I was 17 in my jncos and blue camo tank top loving life and I think they played after Fear factory and the mosh pit in 2 seconds became one big dust cloud it was gnarly 🤘pretty cool slipknot is still rocking
I was at Ozzfest 99 in West Palm Beach and remember seeing them for the first time there. It was badass. To see their progress has been a treat for sure.
the best opening i've seen was from Babymetal. They had the curtain up like this, but they had a video projecting onto it playing epic music and giving foxgod lore before the big reveal
We saw them in Nashville at Bridgestone, and my dad had seen them when he was a teenager, and I only knew a couple songs by them, but the main thing he wanted to show me was the wild energy they have. It was only my dad and I, the show was a suprise for me, and I didn't know what it was until we got three quarters of the way there. Before we got there we actually went to chick-fil-a, (before I knew it was a concert) and said to dad, "I hope it's not a concert." I was hoping it was a trampoline park, or somethign that I found just a bit more fun. But no it was great, the openers were Crown The Empire, which has a good lead singer, Ice Nine Kills, (which I didn't really like their stage peformance) and then Slipknot. Within the next month my dad took my mom and I to see Elton John's Farwell Yellow Brick Road tour which was at Nissan Stadium. We have also seen Shinedown twice, and once around this time last year, (April of 2023) we saw Three Days Grace play with Shinedown, and the first opener was From Ashes To New.
Seeing this intro irl June 4th was the coolest thing ever. People don't understand how amazing it really is to see it in real life compared to seeing it through a screen
@@Mr.Event501 they really are. I wish I got to see them in the earlier days when Sid was still being an idiot and jumping off stages, Joey was still there, and more. I love their concerts now but it will never be the same
@@ashotofmercuryPerhaps you should watch it again. ;15. The outside corners drop.... and it gets pulled up in the dead center of the stage. Pause it at 1:15. you will see the curtain going up into the device that holds the curtain
I saw them many, many years ago as a teen. It was unbelievable. Corey gave me a fist bump while he was preforming and for some reason it left ink on my hand lol.
I saw them in '99 OzzFest on the side stage. I had heard of them but didn't really know they wore masks. I saw them and thought... HOLY SHIT what am I fuckin witnessing?!?☠️🤘🏻☠️ Many years later, I have seen them on stage probably 10x! They ALWAYS kick ass & NEVER disappoint !
I'm pretty sure Rammstein do this all the time. During the LIFAD tour I saw them using a big German flag to cover the whole stage while they were playing the intro of Rammlied.
I saw them a couple years back when they opened up for MercyMe. They put on one heck of a show and got everyone in the audience pumped up. Even MercyMe gave them props by covering Wait and Bleed. It was amazing.
I know everyone rips on Metallica but I saw them on and justice for all and they opened with Blackened and it blew me away of course it could've been the acid
Not everyone...only some rip on Metallica. They have also had some kickass show openers but what's more is Metallica has produced some of the best live shows that span entire tours. I would say their stadium tour for Hardwired was/is one of the best over all stage shows in decades across all genre's. The gigantic LED display synced w Pyro made for some legendary shows
One of the most incredible live bands I've ever seen in my life. Saw them for the 1st time at RiotFest last year. I was right up front. My 1st festival. I will remember their show forever
i SWEAR i was the most excited person in that concert. they saved my life and i love them with all of me. they've been my #1 for 4 years and i saw them june 2, and i was screaming all of the words to their songs crying the whole time jumping up and down smiling and that was the best day of my life, i cry whenever i think about it because i would do anything to relive that day forever . i love slipknot and i especially love mick . i would do anything to meet them. they saved me and i will love them forever.
Slipknot was one of the most shows I’ve been to. Say what you will about them as a band, but you can’t take away the fact that they’re top tier performers.
@@DioHenda Rammstein...Van Halen US festival...Pantera Electric Factory Philadelphia. Any Metallica Damaged Justice tour...Pink Floyd...AC-DC Donnington...Black Sabbath reunion tour 98....
I came here to say this as well. I've only seen Slipknot once, in 1999 or 2000, and they ripped back then. I'm sure they still do. But go see more shows.
I had seen them in Winnipeg. We were waiting for them to come on and they had there curtain so we jus waited and waited. I decided to just smoke a joint in the crowd, after that I was feeling very tired so I rested my head in my chair and closed my eyes. I almost had a heart attack when that explosion hit and that curtain went up. Best experience of my life.
@@Ted_Sheckler not sure who was at the show in your state but here .. San Bernardino.. Slipknot Slayer .. The 1st time i saw Mudvaybe.. Hatebreed.. So fckn awesome ..bro
@@vfletes1 we had the best version of the lineup, in my opinion: Slipknot, Slayer, Sepultura, Sevendust, Mudvayne, Hed PE, Hatebreed, Downset, Esham (who left in the middle of his first song because he was booed so heavily), and a few others.
I was at the Minneapolis show, and i can completely agree that this is one of the best openings to a band i have seen. Corey’s laugh at the beginning is everything.
I love how slipknot adds those intros of like peaceful things or a audio scenes from a movie into the beginning of their shows to add the feel. I’ve seen other bands do it but I love slipknot’s the most
Saw them for the first time a few days ago in Vegas. Mind. Blown. The energy from the band and fans was electric, it felt like the roof could blow off the joint. Really hope I get to see them live again.
Best opening I've seen was Mudvayne at Harpo's in 2002. They did the sound check and then dimmed the lights. Everybody started cheering and then nothing. It was about 15 mins of a noise here or there and people chanting "Mudvayne" and then out of nowhere a light wall went off of cascading lights as they went into 'Internal Primates Forever' skipping the initial guitar intro straight in the "Jump" section of the song. The fucking place was an eruption. They were still doing the 'Alien' makeup they initially did for their second album before they stopped the make up stuff. I even wanna say they stopped doing that during that tour cycle. So. It was neat to see them like that
Pantera did this like 21 years ago, the reinventing the steel tour. Course we didn't have phones back then, that took video or pictures even. Those were the best days when people actually watch concerts with their eyes
Wow I've always wondered the song they played for this opening. I saw it in say, 98,99, maybe 2000 and it always stuck with me. Crazy to finally hear it for only the second time in over 20 years
I really, really appreciate this video. It was a huge day for me because Knotfest in Atlanta last year resparked my desire to work in the entertainment industry, and less than two months later in this very arena I was hired as a stagehand. My life is literally on a completely different path as a result and I couldn't be happier about it. However, because of [insert the situations I probably shouldn't share and a group I shouldn't name] I couldn't enter the arena at all until the show was over. Don't get me wrong, I was still grateful to take part in building the set/loading it out, but this video is the only glimpse I've gotten of my "full circle" day's finished product, and it helps that imperfect circle feel a little more complete 😊
Saw them on Knotfest FInland 2022. It was my first time on slipknot concert. I have to say it was one of my Best days in my life. I Started listening them in 2018 and it was love at first sight. Slipknot has help`d to get me thourgh some tough times and when i saw them i was holding tears after a show. This opening sets chills on my spine! I can`t wait to see them live again!!
I was not a Slipknot fan, but after seeing them twice at Knotfest, in 2019 and 2021, my mind was changed. I was there to see the opening bands each time, but stuck around to see Slipknot and was impressed with their live show. I told myself that next time, I would go to Knotfest for them. I did that on Wednesday and got front rail in pit. There is no other way now. I'm a Slipknot fan.
So here's my honest critique of slipknot, since I've been a fan since 03. Their first 3 albums had real emotions in them, real anger, real rage, real bitterness, and real vulnerability, for them it was a way to vent and channel their pain into something everyone could relate too, I remember when I was a kid people would say that if you went to a slipknot concert, you were probably going to end up in a stretcher. They were very well known for their truly grizzly acts on stage, punching clown or sid for a quarter. Jumping off 20 to 30 ft balcony's into fans. Lighting themselves on fire and actually getting burned, etc. They were the definition of crazy, and real, not fake bs, it was the real deal. It wasn't forced like it is now. However, I have mass respect for any group of people that put as much work as they have and stuck to their guns even after all the loss and changes they have gone through. They lost members, who had the same vision and drive as clown did who started the band, which was originally the idea. To make a band that was an anti product, anti commercial, anti BS, hence the barcodes on their uniforms. Although ironically, they became one of the most commercially successful rock groups in American history. It seemed to just be an outlet for their sickness, they all seemed to connect as a group because they all saw eye to eye, and hence their close brotherhood. They really made slipknot a state of mind, which is purely the embodiment of musical freedom. It's not a slave to anyone, it's what it wants to be. It's a pure spirit of heavy metal. They are truly a legendary band. It will be a loss when they throw in the towel. They are up there with Metallica. Pink Floyd, The Beatles, etc. They are top tier music. They got me through a lot of pain, brang me together with a lot of friends, even across the world. Slipknot isnt just a band, but a mindset IMHO.
You just can't compare Slipknot with Pink Floyd or even the Beatles. That's silly! Lennon and McCartney have written tons of songs that are still played day by day around the globe. The Beatles reinvented the modern music several times. Slipknot is not even the same league... 🤦🏼
@@stefankaiser3354 If people are still rocking out to a band that's still huge if not bigger than what they once were, since 1999. What makes you think those bands are any different? Slipknot had been played in every continent on earth. Maybe not as wildly as the others, but slipknot is fairly new compared to the Beatles. As far as Metal goes, they are essentially at that height.
@@nomad1517 They did not invent anything new. They played the same crossover shit like all the other late 90s/early 2000s bands. Pink Floyd, the Beatles changed the whole music into something completly new. Like I said, the Beatles reinvented themself and the popular music more than once! Metallica made trash metal what itbis now. Metallica is the essence of the whole genre. Slipknot is just a show. They are decent musicians but they're the Muppet Show for adult metal heads.
@@stefankaiser3354 you’re definitely underselling slipknot here but this comparison doesn’t make sense as slipknot is a completely different genre from pink floyd and the Beatles
Amen to that his death broke something inside of me that won't ever be right again I know some ppl can be a tad overdramatic about shit like that but for me it's a very real very tactile void heaviness and emptiness that left a joey sized hole nobody else can fill. I've had the immense honor of getting to hang out with him 15 or 20 times throughout the years and he was ALWAYS the most gracious respectful and real person in the room. I've met just about every popular metal band from 1995 onwards as a fan and then in a professional capacity starting around 2001 so I've got a fairly large basis for comparison and joey was different from absolutely every other musician out there which is why he was is and will forever be loved and revered by everyone who's life had been touched in any capacity by him! My hope is that he truly knew while still on this earth the depth breadth and how much we loved him and the deep extent of loyalty we have always had for him!
My favorite band growing up was Slipknot, I remember going hard in mosh pits and having whiplash from head banging too hard haha. It’s been a while since I’ve seen them live.
This is good, but the best intor ever was the 1979 Crazy Horse tour when a dozen "rust men" climb down a 40' tall Fender Twin Reverb amp and pull the cloth amp screen off to reveal a monster size PA and then neil Young walks out and starts cranking the first notes to "my my, hey, hey" (out of the blue and into the black) so frigging loud my ears rang for a week! :) that was awesome!!
@@MattKittredge2112 I've seen them twice since WANYK came out, and that stage really is a lot bigger in person than videos make it appear. This jackass just doesn't know what he's talking about. I've seen it from 20 feet away, and 200 feet away.
Couldn't agree more. Just saw them last night in Vegas and I'm still recovering. Lol. Amazing show. I don't think I saw anyone sitting down from start to finish.
I saw them at a festival in 2001 and it remains the greatest live performance I've ever witnessed and I've seen them a number of times since. A buddy of mine saw them in a tiny club in '99 and also claims that nothing will ever surpass it. I saw them on the Iowa arena tour and they did a similar opening to this with the curtain dropping. I'd never seen that before and it blew me away.
I'm not even a fan of Slipknot, I just like some songs of theirs. I saw them live a month ago and damn, it's the best live I've ever seen in my life! Huge respect for the boys
I got to see them twice on the all hope is gone tour. Got some amazing photos of joey and paul. I consider myself very lucky i got to see them while they were alive!
The best I've seen. Anthrax opening for Ozzy, late 80s / early 90s. State Of Euphoria tour. Stadium light are all up. Roadies on stage setting stuff up. Typical set up /sound check for an opener at the time. Anthrax had a mascot called "Not Man" Not shows up on stage. A dude in a huge paper machete head. Dude is running around the stage, tossing his hand in the air. Crowd starts getting into it. All the lights in the stadium are on. Not runs off stage left and up the side of the arena. Exits the back of the arena, comes up at the middle of the arena, runs around on that level exits out the back again. Later heard he was running the hallway as much as the arena area. Shows up back at floor level, runs right down the center, jumps up on stage. All the roadies are gone. Lights still on full in the entire room. Jumping up and down. Hands in the air. Crowd now going nuts. Off comes the paper machete head. It's Ozzy. Ozzy was running around like the mad man we loved. head comes off. He shouts something like "I love you!!!! ANTHRAX!!!!" and the light go out. Place is black. There is half a beat of silence And we hear the boom boom of Finale' echo through the hall. The place went nuts.
Nine Inch Nails at Welcome to Rockville blew me away this year. I was like 5 from the rail. they started strobe lights , some light fog and an intro to the song over speakers. and then the lights kept getting faster and faster. then boom. they were just on stage playing. Stage empty one second then like 5 people on stage out of nowhere. felt like a magic trick
Imagine how being at Woodstock ‘94 or the Lollapalooza Tour would have been like. I wasn’t around at the time but the recordings of both of those shows look crazy.
I saw NIN and my favorite bit was slowly the equipment was being setup it took about 20-30 minutes. Then out of nowhere some guy in a hoodie, hood up climbs on stage from the crowd and tears ass toward one of the controller boards looking like a thief. He starts poking at it and the intro to Copy of A plays...people are still confused until the guy throws down his hoodie and hits "I AM JUST A COPY OF A COPY OF A COPY!" It was Trent all Along.
When I saw Motorhead, Lemmy came on stage with a cigarette in his mouth and said, "Are you ready for some rock n roll?" We all shouted yes, he asked the crowd three times, threw his cigarette on the ground and they started playing the first song.
@@djbogz1921 I remember the 1916 tour, they had the banner up behind the band and halfway through it dropped to reveal the motorhead logo and they launched into the song motorhead. The place absolutely erupted, nothing I have been to even comes close for crowd energy.
