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Welcome to the new Murderdolls club here on DeviantART.....
well - we have had soem new members kicking in again.... but well - this club has been up for a while now... and i duno. maybe its just me - but if you coem accros a page - hwere someone states they like the murderdolls, please can you perhaos drop a line about us???? if in their ntoe to the club, they state that you told them about us, maybe a prize for you could be arranged too?? please?????
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Murderdolls....

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Well…
Murderdolls consists of: -   
Wednesday 13 on vocals (Born on August 12, 197666, Formerly of Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13)
Eric Griffith on bass (Formerly of the band Synical)
Joey Jordison on guitar (Born on April 26, 1975, also drums for slipknot, and is formerly of the band, The Rejects.)
Acey Slade on guitar (Born on December 15, 1974, Former bands include Vampire Love Dolls (guitar/vocals)
and Dope (bass then guitar)
And
Ben Graves on drums (Formerly of the band Synical, His birthday is November 5th

There official released album is, Beyond the Valley of the murderdolls!!!!

quotes </u>

"We're not putting on a show where it's a sermon and we preach, saying that this is the way it has to be - You get whatever you want from us and it' fun. We want you to walk away and say, "Wow, that was the most fun I've had in a long time." ~ Wednesday 13
"If you put me in a cool band and gave me two blocks of wood, I'll rock them like a motherfucker! For me, I consider myself as a musician. The musical part is one fraction of the entire package. It's the vibe, giving kids something to escape and something they don't have to do it the way they were told. Whether it's guitar or bass, doesn't really matter to me. I love playing guitar to play textures and melodies but bass is cool because it's a rhythm and I feel like we can slam it out and make the crowd move. Either way it's fun for me." ~ Eric Griffith
"We're a very tongue & cheek band. A lot of our shit is very offensive and can be taken the wrong way, for sure. But I think that's a lot of what is fun about this band - we're serious about not being serious. We're like the musical equivalent of being kicked in the fuckin' teeth." ~ Joey Jordison
Metal Edge: If you were not a musician, what would your profession be?"
"I would be the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town." ~ Acey Slade
Interviews </b>
Rock Sound interview - Murderdolls - Seven Deadly Sins
VANITY
Wednesday 13: I spent $50 on make-up before i came here. I carry a mirror on
stage to check up on myself throughout the show. I'd just like to say that
with us, there are never enough mirrors!
Ben Graves: I had a mirror installed on my bedroom ceiling, right over the
bed. We have mirrors because we like to watch other people - we're all a
bunch of sick voyeurs!
ENVY
Acey Slade: I was envious of The Ghoul in Tokyo, the girls liked him a lot,
he looked like a mother that had just given birth; he had mouths all over
him, feeding off him!
Wednesday 13: I'm really envious of the Hamburglar, it's like he could steal money,
gold, jewels but he only steals hamburgers and i'm really envious of someone
who would dedicate their whole life to that - i hate hamburgers but i admire
the guy - he's definitely committed!
Ben Graves: I was pretty envious of my dog, he'd sleep all day while i was at work
and lick his own bals and no one thought any less of him.
GLUTTONY
Eric Griffin: I think it was Motley Crue who said 'those guys want some of
the drugs and some of the women; we want all the drugs and all the women,'
i'm like that - whatvere it is, i don't want some of it, i want all of it.
LUST
Ben Graves: When i was nine i used to watch a show on TV called Creature Double
Feature and Elvira was the host. I used to become very aroused by the time
it was over. My friend got me a picture of Elvira and i should of had it
laminated.
Eric Griffin: I think that lust will be the death of me and the death of all of us,
it's just a matter of not what you got but what you want, no matter what i
get i always want more.
WRATH
Wednesday 13: When i was 11, my parents decided to move from the country into the big city. I was very upset because i was losing my forest and rope swing, so i
climbed to the top of the swing and cut the rope a little bit. To mae
matters worse, there were loads of jagged rocks where you swing, so it ook
some Vaseline and rubbed it onto the rocks, just in case the rope held up. I
remember the kids going 'hey! let's swing on the rope', hearing a splash
(but ther wasn't a whole lot of water there) and crying. I couldn't see what
had happened but i remember this guy carrying his brother home. Three months
prior to that, i'd held the same guys at gunpoint with the BB gun.
Ben Graves: I'm a Scorpio and i'm extremely vengeful, so you'd better watch out, I like to thoroughly torture people.
GREED
Wednesday 13: I love chicken and if i was at a buffet and there were three pieces of  it left on the bar and there was an Ethiopian kid behind me, i'd tell the
guy to go suck dirt!
SLOTH
Wednesday 13: When we are not on tour, i like to sit in front of the Tv, i'm pretty
much an expert on those old sitcoms - i know that the theme tune for
Diff'rent Strokes was sung by the dad from the TV show Growing Pains!

Roadrunner Records Interview with Joey Jordison:
During the early morning hours of May 24th, Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison took a
few moments to answer a few questions to get us all acquainted with his current project, Murderdolls...
Everything you need to get up to speed on the upcoming Murderdolls release...
Sit back, relax, and read (May 24th, 2002):

Roadrunner: Good Morning, Joey. And what time would it be where you are at right now?
Joey: Ah, let me check, something like 12:30 in the afternoon…I haven't seen 12:30...I know at least in the last three fuckin' weeks.
Roadrunner: And what has your day consisted of so far?
Joey: Well I took a piss and stumbled over, stubbed my toe on a fuckin' few cd's on the floor, and then I came back in and waited on your phone call.
Roadrunner: And by the time this day is all said and done, what will you have accomplished?
Joey: Well, I'm continuing on a song called "Slit My Wrist" right now, which could be the lead off track on our album, and that's the song I'm currently mixing right now.
Roadrunner: So, your basic schedule right now - mixing the album?
Joey: I'm mixing at SR Audio in Des Moines, Iowa. I go into the studio about 5:00 at night and I don't leave there until probably about 6 or 7 in the morning.
Roadrunner: Let's start, Murderdolls. You say this band was formed back in 1995. How active has the band been over the past seven years?
Joey: Yeah, actually it was…we were very active during '95 all the way through '98. I started playing with Slipknot in September of '95 - me, Paul, and Shawn initially got together with a couple other people and formed the band. So, I was playing live shows with them (Murderdolls) on my off time from Slipknot. We only really stopped when Slipknot went to make the first record and go on tour, so it was definitely put on hold to do Slipknot for quite a while.
Roadrunner: So, would you consider Murderdolls a side project or not?
Joey: A lot of people view it as a side band, it's really not a side band…it's just my other project that I've done. A lot of people around here in Iowa have known that for quite some time, but now I guess it's time for the world to see what else I've done.
Roadrunner: Now, in Murderdolls, have you always played guitar in this band? Actually, what was your first instrument?
Joey: Yeah, absolutely (always played guitar in Murderdolls). I started with guitar at age five. I only played drums because I was in a band playing the guitar and the drummer wasn't cutting it, so I just filled in and kind of stuck with it. Drums came really easy to me, whereas guitar I had to work just a little bit harder.
Roadrunner: So you're actually a guitarist first and a drummer second?
Joey: You could look at it that way, but I think a lot of people would look at it the other way (laughs).
Roadrunner: You can say that again…onward - you guys were always called the Rejects until recently (at this point Joey let's out a big yawn - hey, it's early yet) , where did this Murderdolls name come from?
Joey: It was a name that I came up with a long time ago. We had always toyed with changing the name, but I guess felt uncomfortable cause we thought we already had a certain type of name out there and didn't want to fuck with it.
Roadrunner: How was this band formed? Are you considered a founding member?
Joey: Yeah, me and my ex-singer (Dizzy Drastic) formed it, and we recently just
parted ways. Actually, the band has just been completely renewed. It's really not the Rejects anymore, it was kinda just disbanded, the name was a little too punk rock, like the Ramones.
Roadrunner: You can say that again…
Joey : It kind of pigeonholed. Our new name has a little more controversy to it, it's a little more vivid, a little more colorful, you can kind of tell a bit more what the band is about. Once I found Wednesday, he and I started writing songs and it was so comfortable. It's like when you find that other guy in a band that you can write songs with…and we just started writing songs and bringing them into the Rejects, but they didn't really seem to fit. Wednesday's an amazing singer and we kind of renewed the band from there.
Roadrunner: Let's talk about Wednesday 13, how long ago did he become the singer of the band?
(at this point Joey goes off on a tangent, before zeroing back in by asking, "What was the question? I'm scatterbrain right now.)
Roadrunner: How long has Wednesday 13 been singing in the band?
Joey: Oh, he's actually only been singing with us for, probably since the beginning of this year.
Roadrunner: Didn't he play something else in the band previously?
Joey: He used to play bass in the band before, and that's how we pulled him in. He brought some songs in, and plain and simple, his voice just suited the songs better.
Roadrunner : So you and Wednesday are the 2 songwriters in the band. Tthe songs that you guys recorded, any the same from back in 1995?
Joey: It's all new stuff. Again, back to when Wednesday joined, it was just a rebirth of the band.
Roadrunner: Where did you guys record?
Joey: I've always done it at the same studio, SR Audio, here in Des Moines, Iowa. It's a great, phenomenal studio. The "Spit It Out" track from our first Slipknot record was done there, my Manson remix, the 'New Abuse Mix' of "My Plague" was tracked there…we do a lot of Slipknot work there. I know that studio inside and out, so we just did it there.
Roadrunner: When did you guys record?
Joey: Say again?
Roadrunner: When, when?
Joey: Ah, shit. There was a session in November and December of 2001, then there's the most recent session we did which was the end of March/early April.
Roadrunner: The Murderdolls album, how many songs will it be? How many did you record?
Joey: It will be 15 songs, and we actually recorded 21.
Roadrunner: Who actually plays what on the album?
Joey: I play all the drum tracks on the record. You can tell it's me.
Roadrunner: You can say that again…I've only heard "Dead In Hollywood" and it screams your drumming.
Joey: That's the thing, even though it's not 'metaled' out like Slipknot shit is - the super fast double bass and super fills. It's not like that at all. It's more of a hard hitting, trashy rock 'n' roll vibe. But you can tell it's me. It's fuckin' obvious.
Roadrunner: So you played all the drums in the studio.  And as for guitar?
Joey: I played rhythm guitar. Tripp (Eisen, Static X) played leads on the record - he wasn't able to contribute rhythm and all that stuff because he was on tour so much. It wasn't planned that way, just the way it worked out - we've done everything so fuckin' backwards in this band. Wednesday played some rhythm guitar on the songs, played some bass on some tracks, I played some bass on some tracks. Actually, Wednesday contributed a couple leads too, did all the lead vocals. Tripp and I did back ups.
Roadrunner: Purely you, Wednesday, and Tripp on the recording. And Erik (Griffin, bass) and Ben (Graves, drums) will be with you on tour?
Joey: Yeah, they were people we talked to, auditioned, and they fuckin' fit, ya know? You find those people like when Kiss met Ace Frehley and you're like, that's the fuckin' sound.
Roadrunner: So, right now, why is this the time to release it?
Joey: I feel the songs are in order, it is what I think I need the world to hear now. It's something completely different. Also, Wednesday's voice & Tripp's leads, which he's not really known for - It's a side of us that no one else has heard. And this kid Wednesday, he's definitely a fuckin' star, for sure.
Roadrunner: I hate labeling music, or saying what kind it is…
Joey: Oh, we don't fuckin' care, we'll label it…
Roadrunner: How would you describe Murderdolls?
Joey: We're not trying to reinvent the wheel whatsoever, that's not what this band is about.  Loud, aggressive, real blood & guts rock 'n' roll. That's what we do.
Roadrunner: And you guys plan on taking this out on the road soon, ya?
Joey: Yeah, we're gonna start touring the middle of July, US and Europe.
Roadrunner: And this will take you to the end of the year?
Joey: Yep, take us all through the end of the year…unless one of us dies on an overdose…
Roadrunner: Rock.  And the future of Slipknot, then?
Joey: Still very much in Slipknot. Just had a meeting with those guys yesterday, and our plans are getting mapped out, ya know? Gonna start recording our next record at the beginning of next year. Everything is good in that camp, solid as hell.
Roadrunner: '69 GTO or '70 Charger?
Joey: Oh, that's hard. An '81 rusted Pinto with a donut tire filled with drugs.
Roadrunner: Any last thing you'd like to say about Murderdolls?
Joey: We're a very tongue & cheek band. A lot of our shit is very offensive and can be taken the wrong way, for sure. But I think that's a lot of what is fun about this band - we're serious about not being serious. We're like the musical equivalent of being kicked in the fuckin' teeth.
Roadrunner: Good closing line, my man.
Joey: Yeah, our merchandise will go great, too.
Roadrunner: Can't wait to see it. All the best and thank you for the time… go take a nap.
Joey: Yeah, I don't even know where the hell I'm at…(laughs)
Roadrunner: Rock.

Articles </b>
Never let it be said that the Murderdolls lack the capacity to surprise. It's Thursday night, the penultimate date of their sold-out tour of British clubs, and the band were due onstage 10 minutes ago. Getting a band like this to do anything on time is like turning an oil tanker around, so they're running late. Which means that the 500 people packed inside Bristol's Fleece club are just going to have to wait.
Joey Jordison, on the other hand, cannot wait. Opting to change from ugly-men-without-make-up to ugly-men-with-make-up not in the venue's intimate and inaccessible dressing room, but rather within the confines of their tour bus, the Murderdolls have, for the past 45 minutes, been saying, "Excuse me" and "Could you pass the hairspray/lipstick" and getting dressed into stage clothes that have seen less washing powder than the Turin Shroud. It's like playing Twister with Max Factor.
And it could be worse. Joey Jordison - five feet not very many inches tall, even in ridiculous stage boots - need to "go to the toilet", and he needs to do this in the 'I'd leave that for 10 minutes if I were you' sense of the term. Which is unfortunate, considering that 'No solids shall be deposited in the tour bus toilet' is appropriately Rule Number Two in the rock'n'roll code of the road, second only to 'Do not blow the bus driver's brains out with a .45 Magnum as he's hurling down the motorway at 120 miles per hour'. For Jordison, looking quietly concerned, this is a problem. Think, think, think: what to do?
Joey Jordison decides to resolve his predicament by performing a bowel movement on the pavement, in the street.
You did read that correctly.
"Man, I just took a shit in the street," he says, almost skipping with joy and pride.
Perhaps to celebrate such a commendable achievement, one of the Murderdolls - and, let's be honest, aside from Joey Jordison, they all look the same - decides to smash a pint glass. The jar arcs through the air, hitting the cobbled floor with a smash that is, strangely, as satisfying as it is entirely redundant. Then another glass takes flight. Then another, then another. There isn't much whooping and there isn't much hollering, but there is plenty of debris.
We're standing outside a pub, next door to the Fleece. The landlady leans out of the doorway.
"Could you stop that please?" she asks. "Go back inside lady," says vocalist Wednesday 13, winner of this week's stupid name competition. "Go back inside and no-one will get hurt."
Five minutes ago Wednesday was giving serious consideration to urinating on a Puddle of Mudd fly poster. He decided no to because the band, as people, are "cool".
The Murderdolls are now walking toward the stage door.
"Hey, you know about American football, right?" asks Eric Griffin, the bass player. Eric had missed a part of the tour after his father died, but now he's back. "Well in American football this is called a drop-kick." Eric throws a pint glass from his hand and tries to kick it. The glass spins from his boot and smashes six inches away. He adds: "Although it's not a very good drop-kick".
Inside the venue, the crowd have heard the intro tape and are starting to cheer. Outside, the band are going inside.
Please welcome, from the United States of Stupidity, The Murderdolls.
The Murderdolls have a song called 'I Like To Say F**k', which is just as well, because they say f**k all the time; they also have a song called 'Lets F**k' which is not just as well, if you're the one in line, because they're ugly as f**k.
Onstage at the Fleece, the band say the word so many times that if they were to keep a swearbox they could, at the end of the tour, purchase a country. So it's, "Say f**k for me Bristol," and "Are you tired of hearing all the f**king shit on the radio, Bristol?".
In case, heaven forbid, you get bored of the word f**k, The Murderdolls do spice it up and throw in the odd "motherf**ker" as well. They're inventive like that.
They're also, on a night like this, at the very core of their element. When the album, 'Beyond The Valley of The Murderdolls', is boiled down and fried up in a hateful hall before 500 loving people, you're seeing this band as they were intended to be seen. It's here that you can view the parts of the Murderdolls that are A Good Thing, such as the schlock-punk shtick that recalls bands such as the Misfits and the Necros. This is also the place to see the parts of The Murderdolls that are A Bad Thing, such as them revisiting the era of hairspray and shiny guitars that epitomized the glam-metal years.
The Murderdolls will try to guess a woman's cup size by feeling her breasts. It's worth asking: what is the point of the Murderdolls?
"Just to have some fun," says Joey Jordison. The guitarist - for this group at least - sits in the upstairs lounge of his band's tour bus. Adjacent to him is Wednesday. Before the tape recorder is switched on, a request is made that the whole band are questioned, but Joey, quietly, won't allow it. Make of this what you will.
"I get all my angry shit out with Slipknot, so this is something else I can do. And I have fun doing it. We may not be the most serious band in the world, but that doesn't really matter. That doesn't mean this can't be something to me just the same."
For a band that aren't serious, by the way, Joey Jordison chose to meet this question in serious tones, and with some immediacy - ready with an answer, almost leaping in with his response.
Would you like your audience to be serious about liking you? "Yeah, I suppose I would."
Joey Jordison didn't actually make an appearance today until 8pm, fearing that he'd contracted a fever after standing in the cold - straight after his band's set - in Manchester for three hours signing CD's and body parts for his fans. Later in Bristol it would seem that this is no more than a chill, but earlier absence means that his bandmates have to endure the mind-shrivelling tedium that is the afternoon before a show without him.
Wednesday and guitarist Acey Slade are upstairs in the Fleece's dressing room, talking small and killing time. Wednesday is attempting to fit brown plastic holsters to his trousers, in which he can hold the blue plastic pistols that will spurt water into the crowd later tonight. Slade - the funniest and most impressive member of the band - is looking through photographs taken in Germany. He says the word "cool" a lot. Wednesday has a bastardized image of Colonel Sanders on the back of his jacket. Kentucky Fried Chicken is his favorite food, he says, with the humorous delivery of a serious sentiment. Although if he lived in England he would open a chain of fast food franchises called Kentucky Fried Fish and Chips.
Wednesday is from Louisiana. Acey is from Pennsylvania.
But you're based in Los Angeles, right? "F**k no," says Wednesday.
I thought that's where you all lived? "We don't really have a base," says Slade.
Is that because you're not a proper a band? "F**k you," says Wednesday. The Murderdolls take this well. The Murderdolls, fittingly, know how to smile.
This IS Joey Jordison's band. He laughs and jokes along throughout the evening - and his humor and tolerance of a piss-taking journalist is more impressive than many - but, in subtle moments, his demeanor betrays a seriousness and focus that is hardly disguised. He is acutely aware of how he wishes to be portrayed although, strangely, he appears more concerned with visuals than words. He applies his make-up on three separate occasions for the photographs that partner this piece. The last time he has to do this, at 1am, he doesn't appear overly thrilled. He has a quiet word with Roxy Ericson about what she can and can't shoot (admirably, she opts not to fall in with the conspiracy).
In conversation, conversely, Jordison is almost slanderously unguarded. He wants to make it clear that our own Josh Sindell, in his review of the Murderdolls' set at the Whisky A Go-Go, was wrong to say that Kerry King left early out of disdain, but rather had to leave for LAX airport. Then he says that while the other eight members of Slipknot were furious with K! Dep Ed Jason Arnopp for the things he wrote in his Slipknot book, this was only because they knew that what he wrote was "true". He'll also tell you about how he f**ked up his voice by mixing two different batches of cocaine together earlier in the tour. And how, on the road with Slipknot in America, he walked into the Clown's dressing room and emptied his bowels right into the rubbish bin. Right there in the room.
Why on earth did you do that? "Because he was f**king with me."
Is there tension in Slipknot? "No."
But then he'll say this. And he'll say it with some joy and no disguise. "We had more people at our gig (in Los Angeles) than Stone Sour did." Yeah, but Stone Sour are selling more records in America than you are. Joey Jordison nods his head and curls his mouth into the thinnest, and cruelest, of smiles. Quietly he says, "At the moment."
Are you sure there's no tension in Slipknot? "Yes."
In the pub, next door to the Fleece, there is something approaching mutiny. It's 11:50pm, and the Murderdolls left the stage a quarter of an hour ago. Four men in their 40's are arguing about the merits - or otherwise - of the band. They all went to the show, but only half of them enjoyed it. You've got to move with the times, say the defenders. They weren't even playing their instruments, say the detractors.
Listening to this is the landlord. He manages to be friendly despite glowing incandescent with fury. It was his glasses that were smashed by the band, and it was his wife who Wednesday instructed to go back inside so that "nobody would get hurt".
The landlord also thinks the Murderdolls are the worst band ever to have performed next door. So furious was he with the incident, he confronted the Murderdolls' tour manager and, threatening to summon the law, elicited an apology and £50 in compensation without hesitation or complaint.
Rock 'n' roll.
Just round the corner, the Murderdolls are milling in the street, signing autographs for the 200 people who have braved the chill and missed the last bus to talk to them. They will stay there for two hours. Then they will board the bus and, knowing nothing of the furore left behind them, sleep in their bunks and wake in another town. And there the Murderdolls will emerge to laugh and bullshit their way through another day

Links </u>
MURDERDOLLS!!!
Awesome site!..
Official Murderdolls site
Murderdolls U.K.…...
Wednesday 13…...
Slipknot …...
Frankenstein Drag Queens from planet 13 …...
Trashlight vision …...
Slipknot …...
Murderdolls topsites.…...
Merchandise …...

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