The Creepy Side of KoRn, Page 3

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"THE ONLY ROCK AND ROLL CORONER IN THE WORLD"

ATN: This wasn't your first career path.

Davis: No it wasn't.

ATN: I know everybody asks you that question, but isn't it a little like a Stephen King novel, given that you were a funeral director and a Kern County coroner who gave it all up to become a rock star?

Davis: Yeah.

ATN: So your dad owns this music store­­ he has Buck Owens old recording studio­­ didn't they look at you like you were crazy when you wanted to be a coroner?

Davis: No, my dad and mom both thought I was a problem child or something that wanted to cut up dead bodies. But from the beginning, since my dad owned a music store and was in the music business, he always preached to me, I'm not letting you go in the music business. You can't be in a band. You can't go and do that." Because he was in it, he didn't want it for me. You're poor one minute, you're rich the next, I don't want that kind of life for you.' So I knew he'd be really pissed off if I did that, and I didn't want to piss him off anymore than I already had. So when I was sixteen I started working at the coroner's office. After I graduated I went to mortuary school to become a mortician or a funeral director. After that, I came back and worked at a funeral home, did my internship for two years and decided to say 'fuck you' and got in a band. I said to myself, I'm young, I can come back to this, I don't want to kick myself in the ass for not doing it. So here I am. And he's very proud of me.

ATN: Maybe that's what he had in mind all along, but if he suggested it, you naturally would have rejected it. The only odd twist is the time you spent as a coroner.

Davis: But I really loved it.

ATN: You're probably the only rock and roll coroner in the world.

Davis: I probably am.

ATN: It might be an advantage if you were in another band.

Davis: Yeah, if I was in a crank-core band.

ATN: Was there anything you learned being a coroner that has helped you now as the lead singer of Korn?

Davis: The only thing I learned is to appreciate life more. I cut up a lot of my friends, and have seen everything that I could possible imagine, every kind of heinous crime you could imagine.

ATN: I did read that you found a dildo inserted in a corpse...

Davis: I've had even worse, I've had a ten month old baby who was fucked by his dad. With it's legs totally broken back, just totally killed by fucking him. I've seen many things like that, so I've learned you just have to appreciate life and I've learned how people really are, and how this world is. But I don't know, I didn't really incorporate it all in my lyrics.

ATN: Maybe it's just that you have an awareness there is a dark side.

Davis: Oh, definitely. I've seen it. Other people don't see it first hand they read about it, or see pictures but when you see it staring you right in the face, it's an eye-opener.

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