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SLIPKNOT's JIM ROOT: 'I'm Trying To Live A Little Bit More In The Here And Now'

September 24, 2010

SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR guitarist Jim Root was asked by the Artisan News Service (see video below) if the recent death of SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray has changed his mindset as to what his priority is between SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR. "No, not really," he replied. "It's tough to say. Everything is so recent."

He continued, "Are we talking about doing another album with SLIPKNOT? No. Are we gonna do one? Possibly. I mean, right now SLIPKNOT doesn't have a bass player, so how can we think about doing another record with no bass player? Maybe our bass player is already somebody that's in the band, I don't know. Could Mick [Thomson, guitar] or me or anybody cover that duty if we were to write? Sure. On the other side of that coin, we haven't had the luxury to do two albums in a row with STONE SOUR.

"Everything happens for a reason. Maybe this is our chance to go and do another record [with STONE SOUR] and give SLIPKNOT a little more time to think about the future and what we wanna do. Anything could happen."

Regarding how Gray's passing has affected the way he lives his life, Root said, "I'm trying to live a little bit more in the here and now rather than six months to a year ahead of myself, which is what I've been doing for the past ten years. I'm always living at least a year ahead of where I'm really at, and that can really lead you to some negative thoughts and some bad vibes. I'm just kind of more, like, I'm gonna take every day as it comes and that's gonna be good enough for me."

Gray's body was found on May 24 in a hotel room in a Des Moines, Iowa suburb. A coroner ruled that the 38-year-old musician died of an accidental overdose of morphine.

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