Slipknotin Jim Root kiertue-elämästä: ”Keikan soittaminen on päivän ainut normaalilta tuntuva hetki”

Yhdysvaltalaisen Slipknotin kitaristi Jim Root kertoo tuoreessa The You Rock Foundation -haastattelussaan haasteistaan ulkopuolisena henkilönä, jolla on sekasortoisia ajatuksia ja keinoistaan käyttää musiikkia ongelmien sivuuttamiseen. Naamion takana soittavana muusikkona musiikki antaa hänelle voimaa jatkaa eteenpäin. Voit lukea alta miehen kommentteja aiheeseen liittyen. 

”I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of SLIPKNOT, sit here and say, ’Oh, I have trouble.’ You know what I mean? ’Cause I think the average person will probably look at me and say, Oh, yeah, but you’re a fucking rock-star guy who plays guitar…’, whatever, and this and that.

”Yes, it is extremely lucky to be doing what I’m doing, and I wouldn’t change any of it for the world. But there are issues that everybody has to deal with, whether you’re someone like me, whether you’re somebody that’s in school, whether you have a job that you don’t really get along with everybody that you work with, the circles of people that you run with. It’s all relative.”

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”I was awkward in school. I didn’t really fit in with any kind of crowd in school. I didn’t have a lot of friends. But the friends I had were very close friends.

”As a person, I think you’re always kind of searching for something or going through a hardship, whether it’s your parents splitting up or anything like that. I mean, my parents stuck together, for whatever reason, until I was about 23, and then they decided to call it quits. But it was pretty clear to me that they didn’t like each other, and that had an effect on me.

”It’s tough, because I’m 43 years old, and I still have trouble. Don’t get me wrong — I’m extremely lucky to be doing what I’m doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I’m living, but there’s also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day… It’s not like we’re playing the show 24 hours a day, and that’s really the only part of the day that feels normal to me. The rest of the day is occupying your mind with things that don’t take you to the dark side of the mind, so to speak, and that can be tough in itself. I think that’s why with what we do for a living, a lot of people do turn to drugs and alcohol and things like that. And I tried that as well. I think everybody kind of goes through that phase, and for some people, what starts out to be a social things ends up becoming a medicative sort of thing — whether they’re using it to kind of shut off all these problems that are around them or that they have in their mind, but at the end of the day, it’s not really solving anything.”

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