Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has performed ‘Perihelion’ with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – watch the performance below.
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While performing at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville on August 31, the Australian band brought out Weinberg – who is now drumming for Suicidal Tendencies – to perform one song, ‘Perihelion’.
The track was filmed and shared on YouTube – you can watch it below.
Following the show, Weinberg shared a different view of the clip from the crowd. He wrote: “It was such an honor to sit in for a song with the legendary King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard last night! Endless love and gratitude to my bro @mickeycavs and the @kinggizzard dudes & crew for such an insanely kind invitation. A dream come true, I’ll never forget it. Can’t wait to cross paths again someday.”
He also wrote “Side Quest Summer continues”, referencing his stretch of performances this year with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves and a one-off performance with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band since his removal from Slipknot late last year.
Last November, after the Iowa band announced the drummer’s departure, Weinberg said he was “heartbroken and blindsided” by the news, and went on to share that despite that, he “wouldn’t trade for the world” his “memories and experiences” with them. Weinberg was replaced by former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande earlier this year.
Since then, Weinberg has revealed that he’s “processing” the firing, and that he’s not “ready to talk about it” yet. “Truth be told, I’m at kind of a point where I’m not quite yet really ready to talk about it, really,” he said in July. “And that’s not to dismiss the conversation, but I’ve spent time, and spend time, just processing the entire experience.
He added: “There’s a lot to process that on the other side, and I think there is definitely a time where I’ll speak to my lived experience over those ten years – just not quite yet,” while also hinting that a book based on his experience could be on the cards.
As for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, the Australian rockers released their 26th album ‘Flight b741’ in early August. The record was preceded by one single, ‘Le Risque’. It is their first album of 2024, and follows 2023’s ‘PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation’ and ‘The Silver Cord’.
