Jay Weinberg: I Had No Legal Ability to Collaborate — SkimNews
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- Jay Weinberg told the Loyal to the Craft interview he lacked the "legal ability" to play music with other people during a stretch of his career, saying "a little part of my creative self, it was dying for sure" because of the constraint.
- Weinberg said he kept creating and collaborating "in private," but knew none of it could be released because of his legal obligations at the time.
- "Drown Fountain," Weinberg's collaboration with Canadian duo Softcult, was an idea he'd "had kicking around since 2013" — material he's been "honing for years" and still felt passionate enough to finish more than a decade later.
- Since his Slipknot exit in fall 2023, Weinberg has toured with Suicidal Tendencies, recorded with Fuming Mouth, launched the band Portraits of an Apparition, and put out his first solo music.
- Slipknot described parting ways with Weinberg after a decade as a "creative decision," but Weinberg told Rolling Stone in April the band's manager informed him his contract would not be renewed, calling the move "confusing" and adding that it "remains confusing."
- Weinberg joined Slipknot in late 2013 — roughly the same period he says some of the song ideas referenced in the Loyal to the Craft interview originated — though he avoided naming the band directly in his new comments.
Why it matters: Weinberg's carefully-worded admission, paired with his earlier Rolling Stone comments, suggests his decade-long Slipknot tenure came with contractual restrictions that quietly suppressed his outside collaborations — a reality the band's public framing as a simple "creative decision" obscured from fans.
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