I was at the following night in Portsmouth. It was a totally different time. They didn't have names, we didn't know every detail about them. They were just 9 crazy dudes in masks. My first ever gig, and I'm buzzing to find it on RU-vid 💪
When they came through my hometown, Cory and Clown were sitting in a bar with dudes from Machine Head and no one had a clue. For all we knew they were roadies and shit. 😂 I remember how insane everyone was trying to figure out who they were when not in the jumpsuits and masks. Fun fact, my first Slipknot show they were supporting Coal Chamber. Machine Head, Sevendust, Incubus and Limp Bizkit were also on this bill. SNOT would have been had not been for Lynn’s tragic and untimely death. I think the ticket was $15 or $20. I was on a 10 block of LSD that night and legit felt like I was in a fucking scary movie. Clown threw a water bottle my way, he could probably see I was out of my fucking mind. Did I drink it? Hell no. I opened it and threw it back. Next he came off stage fighting with Sid, I got knocked the fuck down and his big ass helped me back up and patted me on my head. I’ll never forget PARTS of that evening. 😳🤤😵💫😵🤡
@@skdzbop it’s kinda crazy for sure. Man, it was the best experience of my life. No bad trip for me. Unfortunately by then time I was in my early 20s and was use to alcohol and drugs. Lame as fuck now that I’m done with that life. But a lot of good and bad memories.
I was at the Portsmouth show as well. It was insane and then some. I met Joey and Paul that day as well. There was £3k of damage done to the venue that day.
I was at this gig and honestly, it was insane. Even the security guards at the door were moshing. Someone actually elbowed me in the face and I still have the chipped tooth to prove it haha. This was also the set where Sid jumped off the balcony. Insane to be there really. All the hype from Kerrang magazine was worth it!
@AutopsyJAY the best era for Slipknot shows. My first was Portsmouth UK in 2000 which I think was the night before the Manchester show maybe. The Portsmouth one was the day they played TGI Friday as met them when the arrived back from London. My mum typed it off the tele so I should watch it when I got back from the show. I know the Manchester gig was recorded for Radio 1 rock show and I pretty much wore out the tape I recorded it from the radio on. Cardiff 2002 was my next, and then many many others afterwards. Their first album is the best record ever written for me and these era shows were just insane. I remember the Security said in an interview in Kerrang or something that the Astoria show was the worst pit they had ever had up until that point, and that it even beat the Deftones show they had had there.
I was fortunate enough to see Slipknot at a similar sized place in Birmingham, AL (Five Points Music Hall) when they were opening for Coal Chamber. Met most of them out back near the bus and they gave my friend and two other guys we didn't know a bunch of street team stuff to hand out. We even got a decapitated mannequin's head signed by everyone but Paul and Mick with an angel/demon thing drawn by Sid. We got lucky because the cops came and chased everyone off for curfew but they thought we were with the band so left us alone. We mainly hung around Joey and watched Dez (singer of Coal Chamber) kick some chick and a roadie off the bus. Joey left to find out what happened but came back and said, "I'll wait until he's calm". lol On a side note: At the time, Joey was using a Flexi-Glide double bass pedal by Tama and I had just bought a Power Glide model. He wanted to trade with me but I lived just over 2 hours north of Birmingham. He honestly tried to find a way for us a meet up while on tour and switch pedals. They weren't coming back around my area and we couldn't work out a meet up while they were still on the road. Had I known what I know now I would've gone out of my way to make sure I got that pedal! RIP Joey - Thanks for the memories!
Keep in mind these were times when pretty much the only picture of these guys was self titled cover and even then some people there hasnt seen that or heard the album itself. I can only imagine how scary it has been to see these 9 guys with masks and jumpsuits give the most insane and amazing performance they're ever gonna see. Nothing like this will ever happen again. Absolutely no one can surpass this energy that they gave on those stages back then. This was literally the best time for slipknot to exist.
I wasn't at this one, but at Portsmouth UK in Feb 2000, and it was the craziest thing I had ever seen. All 9 of them going off was a sight to see. I also met Joey and Paul that day and they both signed my shirt. They set themselves on fire and that made it onto the extras on the Welcome to the Neighbourhood dvd. I just had never imagined seeing anything like it before. They made the Sepultura show I went to in '98, and pretty much everything else, look tame! It only got crazier for the next tour over here and I enjoyed watching them everytime until Joey left, and then everytime since its just become the same show but with the new singy radio tune and same drum beat thrown in every song. Jump the fuck up for Spit Out is boring once you have done it 12 times. It's still nice to see the old stuff played, but it was so intense up until about 2011/12 that it's hard to follow, and even though the new stuff has good choruses, it isn't anything out of the ordinary anymore. The first two albums were completely unique. I lost my way a little with the third record when they got more twiddley and started putting in guitar solos and went a little more conventional metal. It was still really good, but with those first two records, how were they ever going to follow it without evolving? I was getting into the tech and metalcore scene more in 2005 onwards and then went mega tech and deathcore etc., and Slipknot can be tame compared to some of that stuff now and with what they were releasing around then. I haven't enjoyed a Slipknot record since All Hope is Gone, but the first record....I can still listen to day and night. I bought it on Sept 6th 1999 after it got 5ks in Kerrang and they had had Eyeless and Prosthetics on Sampler CDs and were amazing. I remember the day as it was the release day for Chamber Music that I had preordered and I picked up both. I am lucky enough to have the original version and the original DIGIpak with Frail Limb Nursery and Purity on them and its still weird to hear the record in the alternate order. I took it home and tried Chamber Music first and then I still to this day remember when Sic kicked in and I was like holy sh*t what is this! I was blown away. It pretty much shelved everything else for 6 months. Even Korn Issues got less than its fair share for a while because of Slipknot and I am a korn freak! It was the same with the second one. I remember the groove for People=Shit kicking in and being like holy god! It was untouchable for everything that it was and I'm so glad I got to see them come through and discover them right from early on. I even remember the dudes from ear Factory commenting on my Slipknot shirt in Oct 99 at a show. Even the other big bands were blown away by them. The only difference with this show to the first one I saw is that the band they slated that night was korn and not pop bands. They burnt a picture of David if I remember rightly as he was a CK model and Corey said you could shoot him between the eyes if he ever did that.
I was 15 and lived on the south coast at the time, and snuck up to London on the train without telling my parents for this show, because I had recently discovered Slipknot and it was like nothing I had heard before. I spent this whole show part terrified and part in awe. Seen them many times since then but this really stands out, even over Docklands in 2001. This era Slipknot was just fucking amazing.
@@vxrdrummer Well said my friend. I wish i could see them before 2005 when they first came to Greece. I saw them again this summer and it was way less intense with all those newer songs. I want to go to an IOWA and self titled only gig so bad with less people so i can see lol. Their first shows with a couple thousand people were the best.
Yea we’ll never see anything like this ever again and we can’t the times wont allow it, if slipknot just came out today they’d probably be cancelled with how soft tv is nowadays
There’s A LOT of drum cams but slipknot and collectors do NOT want to release them. I’ve been the biggest joey fan and there’s just almost too little to no footage of him on youtube. Just the basic same 8 videos.
I was at this gig it was legendary, psychedelic darkness, very well captured. I can imagine this being a great memory in our collective consciousness, a great moment at the end of the 90's...
Damn man...as good as Eloy is, nothing compares to Joey in his prime. The sheer energy and passion is completely unmatched. The constant push and pull and tempo changes create so much energy and feel...it's insane. I'm not taking anything from Eloy; the dude is an absolute machine and technically skilled out of this world. But man...there's just something about Slipknot with Joey on drums that is so unique and special. His entire look; the way he throws himself fully into every second, headbanging his ass off the entire time, standing up and doing all kinds of weird creepy shit, just all of it man... RIP
@IndialienJones Eloy has to be born another 400 times to reach Joey's heights. Only on heels. Because to reach the same level you have to be born 1000 times more. I find it funny to compare one to the other when there is no possible comparison.
@@jamescavaleraare you mad?! 😂 I’ll forgive you if you are not a drummer or a musician. Please go do a bit of research on Eloy and come back here to delete your comment.
It is so sad to know that the world has changed for the worst in 24 years… those were the best times… no cell phones, no genre shit,… i fucking miss the 90s…
I agree. Cell phones should NOT be allowed! Cameras to take pictures, yes. It's sad going to shows/concerts, and all you see is the glow of cell phones. When I go, I go to jam and rock out! Like we're supposed to.
this is when slipknot were genuinely scary like alice cooper and manson in the early days... i went to see them on the Iowa tour and the bbc did a full piece on how they were dangerous to the uk's youth, i watched this with my parents and saw them the following week 😂
I was at this show. I remember the palpable excitement of everyone in the queue waiting to get in. There was a real vibe of something very special about to happen. All of the main UK bands were there queuing as well. I remember running into Medulla Nocte in the queue, the guys from Earthtone 9 etc. This was a very special show.
I've seen them about 4 or 5 times. Each show has so much energy! Still one of my favorite live bands. I just saw them last week and they still bring it!
I'm not sure if it was a snare or a keg being hit at 8:04 but it gave the breakdown a really nice structure and whoever did it shouldn't have stopped 😄🤘
@@ruthless_villian0 Not reverb, it was Joey hitting rim shots (hitting the rim of snare with the shaft of the stick and snare head with the sticks tip at the same time). I do percussion in band class and when you hit a rim shot on a snare like that it echoes a lot more and has a more of a ping sound effect. You he can hear he starts hitting the snare normal after like three rim shots.
@@ruthless_villian0 Yeah, those are definitely rim shots. He does about 3 or 4 of them before he goes back to hitting the center of his snare with the tip of his stick.
I was at this gig. Absolutely insane!!! Later on in the show Sid lept off the PA into the crowd if I remember correctly. The Astoria was such a cool venue. Shame it was knocked down. I saw so many awesome bands play there and the LA2.
London Astoria was an awesome venue you saw some great bands there. Shame they knocked it down. Always remember this gig and when Surfacing came in. That moshpit went off.
Im hoping one day someone makes a movie about slipknot. Absolute masters and raw talent. A 9 piece band that has the skills and coordination of the knot is unheard of. Eternal respect 🤘🤘
I was there for this. I was ill with some sort of bug and felt like death but managed to drag myself out of bed and go. I thought id stand near the back and out of harm's way but the second they hit the stage the whole floor was one big pit and it was bounce or be trampled. An unforgettable experience !
This is one of the best videos of Rare Live performances from the golden age. Unfortunately, the permanent logo screener copy only destroys everything :( can someone upload that without a logo that would be ultra awesome
video editors & experts - please correct me if i'm wrong but that would require immense computing power just to get it to a semi-visual recreation. you'd need something stronger than any of the the current deepfake software. thank god it's not macrovision if anyone remembers that disaster. anyone remember that shit? but OP, with you all the way on getting theshit removed.
Eu amo essa banda até a morte! Mudou minha vida, virei vocalista de tanto ouvir os 2 primeiros albuns! de 99 a 2001 era a parada mais pesada que existia!!
Хочется плакать,когда видишь как Пол играет лицом к Джои и смотрит на него…Пол обожал Джои а Джои был очень талантливым и великолепным…как больно что они оба умерли((
Puxa vida, que voz ele tava aqui! A banda no comecinho, jovens, cheios de energia. A banda fazia um espetáculo, isso era com certeza um dos motivos de tanto destaque.
@@curs3383 oh I knew what it was, it was just an expression haha. It probably didn't come across as I wanted it to, it was just a great change in the tempo
Best band ever. Been following them since the beginning I remember when buying that first album, I was 7… didn’t realized that my life would already change at this moment. I’ve seen them 8 times and I can’t wait for them to comeback to France. Did someone have the FULL SHOW? Long live the Knots.
Oh my god this just came up in recommended 15 year old homeless me was in that crowd I used to blag tickets to gigs as a kid to get off the streets for a few hours wow this is a time capsule
This looks amazing. Like new footage. The sound quality too is great I wish we got all of their old shows in this quality. Also I didn't know they used the people=shit phrase back then
The quality of this recording(both video and audio) is absolutely brilliant🤘🏻 I only got to see them later in 2000. I could barely believe that these guys were able to manifest and magnify the completely insane journey into chaos that was the self titled album at the time. This is a fitting tribute to a band that doesn't exist anymore. Long live the original Slipknot💀
16 year old me saw the pictures of this show in Kerrang a week or two later, coupled with the Spit it Out video being played on MTV 2 and Wait and Bleed being played on TFI Friday.....and nothing was ever the same 🤘within 3 years I think I'd seen them 4 or 5 times, including Ozzfest UK, both Reading performances and Disasterpieces
mais do que perfeita né truta... tá bem distraída ali o foco em cada integrante, com exceção do Scratch do Sid ali na eyeless mas suave... quem dera tivesse completo...
Corey is nuts! What a pro and dedicated and split personality musician with another project Stone Sour... I mean it's insane. And for so many years. I wish him get back to life and retire already 😊 enough, man. U did a lot ❤
Still the loudest band I seen at Ozzfest 2001 (Cuyahoga Falls Ohio) and that bill was indescribable, the word awesome does no justice to all the bands on that particular show. But that moment of seeing and hearing Slipknot live is forever seared into my brain
Oh man... This takes me back to the year 2000 when they played at the Celebrity Theater in Arizona... With One Minute Silence and Mudvayne... That was an amazing show... Mudvayne opened up the show with a killer set, However One Minute Silence toned it way down and they got booed on stage... People started throwing quarters at them while they were playing... The band for some reason started "London London London" Ha ha ha... Corey Taylor gave praise to both bands including One Minute Silence who came out on tour with them... I believe Mudvayne should have opened up for Slipknot in my opinion...
I had tears appear watching the intro. The energy was amazing then. Listen to Joey play non stop…constantly playing bits here and there, wanting to see the fans. I miss you guys so much. What happened? Why did I allow it to happen? God I’m mad…more deathly than ever. What happened…
