Interview with Slipknot bassist Paul Gray

I mean there was a lot of weird memories on this tour, I guess some drunken tour memories, just ridiculous stuff. I mean the funniest one I think, I mean I don’t know, this tour we were pretty serious about it, we had a good time but I guess some of the drunken after show parties were pretty hilario…

— Paul Gray, puregrainaudio.com

slipknot Touring on the road

We’re definitely trying to get everywhere we can, from the Middle East to...we have a lot of fans in the Middle East believe it or not, but there are just some places you can’t go. And you know, it’s not because we don’t want to, it’s because we can’t go, you know, political stuff.

— Paul Gray, puregrainaudio.com

Middle East Fans slipknot Politics

I don’t see us being like the freaking Rolling Stones or some shit [laughs], but I could definitely see us playing for a while longer, definitely.

— Paul Gray, puregrainaudio.com

slipknot rolling stones

I mean we have the best fans in the world. With the way things are going now with the economy and everything like that, I mean to come out and spend money to see a band is kind of hard to justify all the time, you know what I mean? We did well everywhere we played man, we actually played the biggest…

— Paul Gray, puregrainaudio.com

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