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Korn Frontman Admits To Playing With Himself In Public

jdavis.jpgWe got quite a surprise when we picked up today's Wall Street Journal and looked at the front page, which featured a "hedcut" of Korn doughboy Jonathan "Wearing a glasses make me looks smart!" Davis. This is the kind of above-the-fold real estate normally reserved for human-interest stories, and since Davis is neither human nor interesting, we were confused until we realized that it was a story about the video game Guitar Hero:

Mr. Davis, Korn's lead singer, is part of an unlikely but growing fraternity: Rock stars who are also avid players of Guitar Hero, an electronic game that lets gamers pretend to be, well, rock stars....

Korn's Mr. Davis brought Guitar Hero on the road with him this past summer. But he is waiting until his band's next tour before inviting musicians from other bands to compete, when they will be able to play using a new, high-end audiovisual rig. "I didn't want to be a chump," he says. "I had to get my sound system hooked up right."

But of course he did! Heaven forbid a 35-year-old balding porn addict rap-rocker with an H.R. Giger fetish be labeled a chump.

When Being a Fake Rock Star Is Better Than the Reality [WSJ]

1:43 PM on Mon Nov 6 2006
By Brian Raftery
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  • Grosser: Davis or Evan Seinfeld?

  • Wow, that's a tough one. Both put on awful, awful live shows (I've had the misfortune of seeing both twice). I hated Korn's cover of Another Brick In The Wall less than Biohazard's cover of After Forever. Also, I think a porn addiction is slightly less gross than actually marrying a porn star. Therefore, the winner (or loser, I suppose) is Evan Seinfeld.

  • Interesting question Miss Tanya!

    Jonathan Davis not only boasts of his porn collection in virtually every interview that he gives, he also married the former nitrous addicted, topless model Deven Davis. Miss Davis is also the star of such brilliant works of cinema as "Perfect Pink" and "Perfect Pink 2" aka Jill Kelly lesbian porn. Jonathan and Deven gave an interview to Playboy.com (with a pictorial of Deven shot by Jonathan, natch) expressing their desire to direct an adult film together.

    Oh and they named their kid Pirate. I vote that Jonathan wins by a landslide.

  • Can I add Fred Durst? He combines the grossest qualities of both, including dirty-dickism. At the same time, his Sidekick sex tape puts him over the top. I had to give away my Sigur Ros album because of Fred Durst.

  • Jonathan Davis should star in the Kevin Smith biopic.

  • So that's what happened to Cthulhu.

  • Wait, is this the same Jonathan Davis who whines about allegedly being molested as a kid in damn near every song his "sings"?

  • I curse the name of whoever created the 7 string guitar that gave whiny adolescent bands like KORN enough low end to cover their lack of talent...

  • Mick, lets blame Ross Robinson, the Adidas wearing producer who is responsible for Korn, Slip Knot, Machine Head and Limp Bizkit.

    And all of the confused teenage suburban males who like to stomp around in mud and scream "Kooooorrrrrnnn!"

    Roadrunner Records doesnt help either!

  • Let's also blame Ross for that Cure "comeback" album.

  • You know. As much as I support all opportunities to make fun of Jonathan Davis, I feel bad ragging on a guy just because he wants to play Guitar Hero on a killer home theater system.

    Jonathan Davis is a chump for reasons entirely unrelated to Guitar Hero because its self-evident that Guitar Hero is awesome and the sequel is even better.

    PS: J. Davis or E. Seinfeld? Both are equally gross.

  • You know. As much as I support making fun of Jonathan Davis, I feel bad ragging on a guy for loving to play Guitar Hero on a killer home theater system. The game (and the sequel which comes out tomorrow) is self-evidently awesome.

    Jonathan Davis is a chump for reasons entirely unrelated to the game.

    PS: J. Davis or E. Seinfeld? Equally gross in my book.

  • You'd think the Wall Street Journal would pick a better lense through which to talk about the oh-so-exciting phenomenon of rock stars who pretend to be rock stars. I'd be a little more than shocked if ill-tempered teenage boys with peachfuzz and an healthy obsession with their right hand was the target reader demographic...

    I thought the WSJ was supposed to be above this kind of tabloid schadenfreude?

  • Wait, WSJ did an article on Guitar Hero? My lord, novely controllers made news!

  • I can't wait for the video game to come out where we all get to be bloggers. You know, it'll be cool: I pick a character, log in and either start my own blog or just climb to fame posting funny-but-mean things on other players', while running the risk of getting kicked out for...

    Wait a minute. I just lost my train of thought. I'm gonna go get a cup of coffee. But I'm sure that would be a great game.

  • Gold star for Metalhead.

  • .....I think the seven string rock guitar was pioneered by Steve Vai and Ibanez. For a more quasi-historical slant:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-string_guitar

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