The True Story of “Blind” by Korn

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In his 2009 autobiography, Korn’s bassist Fieldy wrote that on their very first day of rehearsal at Jeff “Ball Tongue” Creath’s Underground Chicken Sound Studio, there were a couple of people just hanging around the studio.

Fieldy could see that these kids didn’t rate them very much when they started playing as they were just making weird feedback noises. Little did these onlookers know that that was just the intro. Once they went in, everyone in the studio flipped out.

Not only had they never heard anything like that before, they had never seen a performance like that before. That Korn rehearsal was essentially a free concert. The world was finally introduced to Bakersfield’s best: James “Munky” Shaffer (rhythm guitar), Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu (bass), Brian “Head” Welch (lead guitar, backing vocals), David Silveria (drums), and Jonathan Davis (lead vocals, bagpipes).

L.A.P.D. and SexArt

Before Korn was Korn, Munky, Fieldy and David were in a band called “Love and Peace, Dude” (L.A.P.D.) They were all from Bakersfield, California but moved to Huntington Beach, which is about an hour away from Los Angeles.

They played this awesome blend of thrash and funk, which you can hear on their studio album…