6/7/2023 0 Comments Little devil inside speed run![]() Jordison honed his knack for production by closely studying studio veterans Rick Rubin and Ross Robinson as they produced the last three Slipknot’s albums. Following a chance encounter in London when Slipknot played two sold out nights at the Astoria, Jordison got the call from Jourgensen to go on the road. ”I’m a huge Ministry fan, always have been,” says Jordison, who met Ministry brainchild Al Jourgensen when the two bands shared festival stages in 1999. ![]() Last April, with barely a moment to gulp a breath, Jordison launched into a five-month tour with Ministry – a dream come true. He began to daydream about being a producer. It sounds like my drums are falling down the stairs.’” You’d think he’d be ready for a break once the tour wound down, but instead, in December of ’05, Jordison took the helm for the Roadrunner United album The All Star Sessions, writing music, playing bass and drums, and co-producing the ambitious CD, which featured an army of artists from the Roadrunner catalog celebrating the label’s twenty-fifth anniversary. ![]() Even Dave Lombardo was telling me one time when we were touring with Slayer, ‘Man, I don’t know what the hell happened. “It usually happens once or twice in a tour, even though the shows are a blast each night. “Every drummer will tell you that there comes a slump in a tour where the endurance factor or the thinking factor just kind of gets jumbled,” Jordison says.
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