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| Joey Jordison... man in the Slipknot mask |
I confess to once buying a Slipknot album... but found only one thing about its intensely dark metal that impressed... the impossibly brilliant drumming of Joey Jordison.
It's truly sad news that he has died, aged only 46, after a musical career that probably inspired thousands of young drummers to pick up the sticks.
Jordison was a master of double-bass-drumming and mesmerising technique. The fact that he suffered from acute transverse myelitis, a disease that at one point robbed him of the use of a leg, was a terrible irony.
His determination to keep playing had helped him overcome even that setback, yet in the end it wasn't enough to keep him alive...
But, as with all of the drumming greats, he will live on in the playing of his successors.
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