Korn Guitarist Finds Christ

[Capitalist Lawyer]

Only if the rest of the smut peddlers and their supporters would follow the same path.

I guess a lesson such as this can apply to both "greedy capitalist supporters" who say "the hell with everybody else", to "paranoid communists who shiver at the mention of the word: Religion".



Korn guitarist finds Jesus, quits band
February 23, 2005 09:13 AM
by Jon Zahlaway
LiveDaily Senior Writer
Citing a newfound devotion to religion, Korn (music) guitarist Brian "Head" Welch has left the popular metal group.

"Korn has parted ways with guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch, who has chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end," reads a statement posted Tuesday (2/22) at the band's website. "Korn respects Brian's wishes and hopes he finds the happiness he is searching for."

The statement goes on to say that singer/lyricist Jonathan Davis, bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer and drummer David Silveria--who, along with Welch, founded Korn in Bakersfield, CA, in 1992--are "personally closer than ever" and are working on a new studio album due out in September.

The group has not indicated whether it will seek to replace Welch, who, along with Shaffer, largely defined Korn's unique sound; the pair was known for playing with seven-string electric guitars rather than the traditional six-string rigs.

In an interview published in Wednesday's (2/23) edition of Bakersfield newspaper The Californian, Welch said he quit the band in January, but didn't go public with his decision until a Sunday (2/20) radio interview with Bakersfield station KRAB-FM.

According to the paper, Welch attributed his decision in part to his 6-year-old daughter, and in part to his disenchantment with the band's dark, morbid image and the excesses of life on the road.

"You're shut in a [tour] bus with your best friends with as much beer as you can handle," he told the paper. "Drug dealers come to the show. I'm growing up right now. I didn't have a chance to [before] with all the free beer I got. I just grew up a little bit. I've got a daughter. I've got to think of my kid. I just want to do the right thing."

Welch told the paper that the band's management tried to keep him in the group by offering to accommodate his daughter during the group's tours, but he wasn't interested.

"What parents would want their kids to go on a rock'n'roll tour, a heavy metal tour?"

Welch also said he wasn't pleased with the group's recent music video for its remake of the mid-'80s funk hit "Word Up," a cut included on the band's 2004 best-of set; in the clip, the band members' faces are superimposed onto the faces of dogs who go to a strip club. Welch described the video as "so dumb that it's not even funny" and said it was "horrible, horrible. It's just not me."

Welch plans to discuss his decision in detail during services at Bakersfield's Valley Bible Fellowship on Sunday (2/27).

[Cryotank Screams]

Originally posted by Capitalist [email protected] 12, 2006 10:42 pm
Only if the rest of the smut peddlers and their supporters would follow the same path.

Smut peddlers? LMAO, :D

[Capitalist Lawyer]

Smut peddlers? LMAO,

Ahhh, yeah man! You just love those slasher films don't you?


John Shepherd is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. He is best known for his role in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning as Tommy Jarvis. John refused to reprise this role for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives because he became a devout Christian.

How awful of these people.

[Cryotank Screams]

Originally posted by Capitalist [email protected] 12, 2006 10:47 pm

John Shepherd is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. He is best known for his role in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning as Tommy Jarvis. John refused to reprise this role for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives because he became a devout Christian.


Wow, you just demonstrated how christians are life-hating idiots, I already knew this, ;) .

[Zero]

OMG! Fuck that. KoRn was rad, and really helped me through a dark time in my life. Now he's gona be all 'Big ups 4 Jesus!!!1one'

I thought he was smart, as well. -.-

Freak on a Leash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRyY7j09eI) Alone I Break (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMTPi311WQ)

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Capitalist [email protected] 13, 2006 02:42 am
Only if the rest of the smut peddlers and their supporters would follow the same path.


Oh fucking allah on a stick, are you that much of a puritan fuckwit? "Smut peddlers", who knows - maybe you'll be talking about the "video nsaties" next...oh, you did. In your response to cryotank. Just because some people don't have the same limits of "taste and decency" that you do, does not mean you can/should condmen them.


I guess a lesson such as this can apply to both "greedy capitalist supporters" who say "the hell with everybody else", to "paranoid communists who shiver at the mention of the word: Religion". I don't know anyone who shivers at the word. I met one person who went into convulsive laughter at the sugestion of an invisible omnipresent, omniscient, ominpotent being though.

[synthesis]

But they still have one guitarist, right?

So they'll keep making music? (I.E. Ruining Notorious B.I.G. songs)

[KC]

I used to listen to the Smut Peddlers.

Korn's shit.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

CapitalistLawyer, why did it take you almost 2 years to cop onto this story?

[C_Rasmussen]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13, 2006 06:15 pm
CapitalistLawyer, why did it take you almost 2 years to cop onto this story?
Yeah it was like in '04 (or '05). I wish people would look into shit more before posting -_-.

[Phalanx]

Originally posted by Capitalist [email protected] 13, 2006 02:42 am
"paranoid communists who shiver at the mention of the word: Religion".
The only religious person that I admire is John Brown. And as far as I can tell, this guitarist hasn't given all for a good cause, he's just an ultra-religious nut.

[JazzRemington]

Meh. The backup guitarist for Dead Kennedys "6025" turned into a huge Christian and even attempted a "Christian punk epic." In fact, he recently caused a big scene at a punk show a few months ago because he didn't like the band's stage show.

[Capitalist Lawyer]

Wow, you just demonstrated how christians are life-hating idiots, I already knew this,

Is that your ideal vision of life on this planet? To sit around and watch slasher movies?


I don't know anyone who shivers at the word. I met one person who went into convulsive laughter at the sugestion of an invisible omnipresent, omniscient, ominpotent being though.

You obviously don't understand religion then and what people believe in.

Even if you do, it's not as funny as the theory about a mass proletarian revolution that will seek to destroy capitalism and governments.


Just because some people don't have the same limits of "taste and decency" that you do, does not mean you can/should condmen them.

I can't? Who's going to stop me?

Little old you?


And as far as I can tell, this guitarist hasn't given all for a good cause, he's just an ultra-religious nut.

So everybody who proclaims the title as "Christian" is a religious nut in your eyes?

The vast majority of religious people aren't religious nuts.

And if you believe so


Oh fucking allah on a stick, are you that much of a puritan fuckwit?

I don't support making laws or legislation against the creation and marketing of such crap, so your "neo-puritan" remarks hold no water.

I'm still waiting for intelligent and MATURE responses to this topic.

Just to let you know, I won't be holding my breath.

[Red Heretic]

Hi Capitalist Lawyer,

I don't normally post in here, but I thought I'd drop in and say a few things.

Frankly, you aren't getting mature responses to this topic because there isn't much to talk about. Who cares if this or that self-mutilating guitarist finds Jesus?!

[Cryotank Screams]

Originally posted by Red [email protected] 18, 2006 09:28 pm
Frankly, you aren't getting mature responses to this topic because there isn't much to talk about. Who cares if this or that self-mutilating guitarist finds Jesus?!
Absolutely no one comrade, lol, ;) :D .

[jasmine]

Life is just so funny isn't it Cryotank? We should have a new internet acronym, lollc - laugh out loud like Cryotank. :lol:

When exactly are you planning to answer my points about your incoherent anarchist/marxist world-view. Or were you hoping I would forget?

[Demogorgon]

You lose credibility with every post. I always hated Korn, so this amused me greatly watch him make a full of imself (the Jesus tattoo on his hand to stop him from masturbating took the biscuit) and the chance to say "korn gave Head to jesus" ad nauseum made for drunken fun, but to claim this is some kind of great thing that "smut peddlars" are finding God just makes me cackle with delight at how silly you make yourself look. Time to fire up some Black Metal I think.

P.S. I am always greatly amused by the Christian capitalists, the Chrch may have been a great tool for capitalism after a shaky start when it favoured feudalism but that has required editing out Jesus' nastier ideas. Eyes of needles and Camels spring to mind.

[Sir Aunty Christ]

So he found Jesus hmm?

Tell him to: PUT DOWN THE CHRIST CHILD AND BACK AWAY!.

[Cryotank Screams]

Life is just so funny isn't it Cryotank?

Pretty much, blind ignorance, exalted morals, and xenophobic attitudes usual make me laugh, hence why I was laughing at capitalistlawyer, and this idiotic thread.


We should have a new internet acronym, lollc - laugh out loud like Cryotank.

Sounds pretty rad actually, more fuel for my massive ego, :D.

Oh shit, I laughed, guess that's a crime, :rolleyes:.


When exactly are you planning to answer my points about your incoherent anarchist/marxist world-view. Or were you hoping I would forget?

I did, I just took a break from the computer for around 2 days, for personal reasons, but I did answer your arguments, and my world-view is Anarchist, like I have said a million times now, and it is far from being incoherent, maybe a little underdeveloped because I haven’t been in this for a long period of time, but I would say that it very coherent, and that I generally know what I am talking about.

Also, might I ask why you are so obsessed with me? It seems like I can't do anything in the religion section now without you commenting on it, or me.

[ZACKist]

The funniest part about "finding Jesus" is that it's not true. It's funny, you see?

[Clarksist]

Korn guitarist finds Jesus, quits band

Who gives a shit? Korn sucks.


Ahhh, yeah man! You just love those slasher films don't you?

Hell fucking yeah. Link (http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBvfGIlk_n4)


Is that your ideal vision of life on this planet? To sit around and watch slasher movies?

That is such a ridiculous conclusion to make. If someone likes horror films, that doesn't mean that their vision of a perfect life is to "sit around" and watch slasher movies. Maybe horror films would be around, but it wouldn't necessarily be the only thing.

And if it was, that would be pretty badass.


Even if you do, it's not as funny as the theory about a mass proletarian revolution that will seek to destroy capitalism and governments.

Yeah! Religion is based on fact, like books with no verifiable sources that was written about a God who is so immensely holy, pure, and forgiving but cares one little bit about what a tiny human on a tiny planet in a tiny solar system in one of unimaginable amounts of galaxies is doing.

All Marxism and Anarchism are based on is logic and reason.[/sarcasm]


I can't? Who's going to stop me?

No one will stop you, but you will be called an insufferable douche bag.


The vast majority of religious people aren't religious nuts.

No they aren't all nuts. But they are all gullible.


When exactly are you planning to answer my points about your incoherent anarchist/marxist world-view. Or were you hoping I would forget?

Is that even in this fucking thread? Ask yourself: is that relevant to the discussion?


The funniest part about "finding Jesus" is that it's not true. It's funny, you see?

I rofled.

[Clarksist]

Whoopsie, double post.

[La Comédie Noire]

Good thing Korn already sucks or else i might of been worried. :D

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by Capitalist [email protected] 13, 2006 02:42 am



Korn guitarist finds Jesus, quits band


Oh well. Its always where you last left it.
:D