Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg undergoes surgery on torn labrum, updates fans
Drummer Jay Weinberg, recently departed from Slipknot, has shared an update on his health after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left hip and shave down a misshapen part of his femur.
Weinberg revealed that the condition did not affect his drumming but was something he wanted to address during a break from recording and touring.
Weinberg commented:
This Tuesday, after three years of careful planning, I underwent an outpatient procedure to repair the torn labrum of my left hip and shave down a misshapen part of my femur — a condition that never impacted my drumming in any way, but I've wanted to take care of during downtime from my recording and touring schedule. Since 2020, my priority has been for my playing to go uninterrupted, until a window in the schedule would allow me to complete an expected recovery of about four months. In May, that schedule started to show that this window would be now.
After a follow-up MRI in August, I made the decision (alongside those close to me in my personal and professional life) to schedule this surgery immediately following the last performance of 2023, with the ambition and expectation of myself and my doctors to be stage-ready for the next show in April. A commitment I made to myself and to you — although news of this was kept internal. In fact, knowing I wouldn't be able to play for a few months was partially my motivation to create my @mixwave instrument — so I could remain collaborative with my own sound until I could return to my drums.
Though my commitment to healing remains the same, I'll be disappointed to not see all of you in Vegas as planned.
Perhaps some of you are facing your own challenges — we all do. No matter how down-and-out you might feel, there are reasons to be hopeful, and to keep an actively positive mindset. Have your own back. Surround yourself with positive people. Focus on what gives your life meaning and purpose.
I spent today in a part of NYC that first inspired me to pursue a creative life. It was affirming to revisit a place that brings back memories of discovering metal, punk, and hardcore.
I believe I've always shot from the hip (lol) with you. No reason to change that now. I look forward to sharing my journey with you, and keeping you up-to-date in my adventure back to 100%. Thanks to my awesome team of doctors, I'm already on the path back to what I love doing the most! 🥁🔥
The path forward through this recovery will be a challenge, but it's one I'm up for.
Weinberg recently revealed that he was "heartbroken and blindsided" on being asked to leave Slipknot.
Against Me's Laura Jane Grace gave her own thoughts on the matter.
[Via This Day In Metal]
38 comments
Post Commenthahahaha, motherf*cker gets hip surgery and then decides to do a photo op at St Mark's? I hope all the Japanese transplants made it difficult to hobble down the street for this larper
Believe it or not we don't need an update on everything this guy is doing.
^^Jay should offer his services to the Callous Daoboys.
Jesus, dude - it is an outpatient surgery. 3 years of planning, life searching, family discussions, and shaman induced enemas - calm the f*ck down. Routine surgery. Get over yourself.
What the f*ck does against me singers comments have to do with dudes surgery you shitstain?
But also. Who gives a f*ck about this dudes surgery. Someone buy this site back from this click hungry moron.
How hard is this guy f*ckin' to tear his labia like that?
So Slipknot fired a man because he suffered an injury which required surgery & fired him during his surgery & recovery, real classy. Say/think what you want about this guy but that is some low shit to do. Slipknot were, are & always will be a joke. Iowa LOL. The state which gets older, whiter, dumber & crazier with each passing presidential election from all the smart people fleeing it.
* Young, sane & smart people fleeing it. What graduate of University of Iowa in their right mind would want to stay in Iowa? Des Moines is nice but you're surrounded by Trump cultists, Jesus freaks etc.
"anonymous 30 minutes ago Slipknot were, are & always will be a joke. Iowa LOL. The state which gets older, whiter, dumber & crazier with each passing presidential election from all the smart people fleeing it." Awww the mean white men are making you vewy angwy! Are you gonna start stomping your wittle feet because they are diffwent than u?
Awww the mean white men are making you vewy angwy! Are you gonna start stomping your wittle feet because they are diffwent than u? I guarantee you would not say this to my face unless you wanted yours caved in, racist. Funny, what you just wrote is EXACTLY how countless white men in Iowa & beyond including Trump cultist scum like you behave towards non-white people but keep self-projecting, coward.
"Guys, Jay's about to file a workman's comp claim. What do we do?" - Corey Taylor
^ Jay could sue Corey & Slipknot if his injury was from playing a show. 'Don't know if he'd be successful but his dad has the loot to pay for the lawyer & that could be a win alone. Hence my guess as to why Slipknot hasn't put out an official statement saying they FIRED Jay. "No longer in the band" could mean he quit to avoid being fired or not, or he left amicably or not, too.
^^^^cant sue when you did it to yourself. apparently, four ladyboys were too much for my boy Jay, they really put him in a boston crab. but hey, that's what he paid for!
Oh so he got injured not playing for Slipknot cool thanks!
almost had a shiny new labrum paid for by Slipknot lol
'Slipknot were, are & always will be a joke. Iowa LOL. The state which gets older, whiter, dumber & crazier with each passing presidential election from all the smart people fleeing it.' No state in the USA gets whiter over time. Quoted from Wikipedia, in 1990, Iowa was 96.6% white non-Hispanic, in 2010 Iowa was 91.3%, in 2020 it was 85.9%.
Ok so older, dumber & crazier e.g. voting Obama twice then Trump twice. Less white = Whites dying off & moving to warmer climes with no state income tax like Texas, Nevada & Florida. Young whites fleeing because they don't want to live in old dumb crazy Trump Iowa after graduating college. Immigrants moving in to do jobs whites think they're too good to go when they're not. But we can talk about why Iowa is less white.
He's probably a Biden supporter. Right Bortslob and Rick Toch?
Yeah, you Orange 45 worshippers can keep Iowa. Anyone with a brain and a steady income doesn't want it.
Whiter in Iowa? I know where I'm moving. Thanks for the heads up!
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Damn, he tore his labia? Get well soon, Jay!