Jim Root Remembers Why He Hated His Slipknot Mask From 1st Album

During an appearance on 93.3 WMMR, guitarist Jim Root looked back on his mask from the first Slipknot album, 1999’s self-titled, and why he didn’t like it.

When Root joined the fold in 1999, he adopted ex-guitarist Josh Brainard’s mask, which was a black bondage mask that covered most of his head. Jim had purple hair at the time, and he pulled parts of it through a little hole on top.

After a few shows and a single photoshoot, Jim changed the mask and started wearing his trademark jester mask.

When asked about saying in the past, ‘I hate wearing that fucking mask,’ Jim replied (transcribed by UG):

«We were doing in-stores sometimes — a lot of the in-stores we did in the early days, in 2000 and when we first came to Europe and Australia and all that — it would be 5,000 or 6,000 people, you were there for 7-8 hours at a time, pissing in bottles underneath the table, singing, it was nuts, it was like a miniature version of Beatlemania or something.
«We did the Golden Gods Awards and we got to hand an award to Lemmy, and I didn’t have a mask — I was in Stone Sour at the time, we were playing that event — so they grabbed one of my masks from the Grammy Museum next door, this place is in LA, and I had started growing my beard, it was pretty long, and I put that mask on it, and then I saw pictures of it and I was, like, ‘I got to figure that out.'»

A few weeks back, Jim told Guitar World on why his mask doesn’t change that much with each Slipknot album:

«You know, I didn’t even start working on my mask until we were tracking the record. I was way more interested in the songwriting process and in putting these arrangements together. And because of that, that side of my part in the band kind of lacks a little bit.
«But for me, I kind of had to let that slide a little bit because I was in the studio and I’m answering questions, and then there’s mixes that are coming through and everything else. I couldn’t really attend to that part of it as deeply as I would’ve liked to.

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