YOUR QUESTION

09/14/2020 Lance

Did Slipknot ever pay you guys royalties for blatantly stealing the masks and costumes idea?

MY ANSWER

You can’t really copyright “ideas”, and more importantly we weren’t the first band to wear disguises on stage. Yes, their take on the concept was arguably a copy-cat move (and I know from an observer that some of them were at some of our shows in ‘92 when we exclusively wore overalls and such) but I saw KISS in 1979 and never payed them royalties. Considering that our outfits came from public Halloween shops and thrift stores, I can almost guarantee that our costume budget was considerably smaller than theirs.