Craig Jones (musician)

Craig "133" Jones
Jones performing in Slipknot at 2009's Optimus Alive Festival.
Background information
Birth name	Craig Michael Jones
Also known as	#5, 133, The Silent One, Spike-Head, Pin-head, The Killer, Serial Killer
Born	February 11, 1972 Des Moines, Iowa
Genres	Heavy metal, nu metal, alternative metal, extreme metal
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	keyboards, synthesizer, sampler, guitar
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Roadrunner, Nuclear Blast
Associated acts	Slipknot
Website	slipknot1.com
Notable instruments
Cakewalk Sonar

Craig Michael Jones (born February 11, 1972) also known as 133 (or 133 MHz), The Silent One, The Killer, or by his number #5, is an American musician, best known as the samplist/keyboardist of the band Slipknot.

Biography

Jones was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He previously played in various local extreme metal bands, including Modifidious, before joining Slipknot in February 1996. He was the replacement for the band's original guitarist, Donnie Steele,^[1] who left during the recording of their first songs, put together into a demo called Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. Because the band was almost completed with the demo, he did not contribute to it, but he did receive credit for its sleeve concept and graphics in the liner notes. Before the year was over, Jones had been replaced by guitarist Mick Thomson, and he began to assume his role as the band's sampler, using sampler modules to program samples/noises and play back bits of recorded media. With the recording of Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) he also started using keyboards and synthesizers. Of Slipknot's nine members, Jones was the fourth to join the band.^[2]

Personality

Jones is the only member of the band who is not interviewed completely unmasked on Voliminal: Inside the Nine. While he does not wear a mask during the interview, his face remains pixelated. He speaks for two seconds at the start of their video Welcome to Our Neighborhood, where he says "133, number 5, sampling". He also speaks once during the member introduction on the Ozzfest 1999 documentary called We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll, where he says "Craig, number 5, sampling", and again during a live show in Birmingham, UK, where Jones is convinced by Corey Taylor to speak during a performance of Only One. Jones once suffered from whiplash after an extended case of powerful headbanging. He gave himself the nickname (133) because at the time 133MHz was the fastest computer around, and the nickname stuck. He also got the nickname "The Killer" because he stated, "If I was not in Slipknot, I'd probably be out killing people." The song "Killers Are Quiet" off of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat was based on Jones.

Jones rarely speaks to the media, but did do an interview with Cakewalk. On Nine: The Making of All Hope Is Gone, the DVD that comes with the special edition of All Hope Is Gone, Craig is the only member of the band to have his face censored while everyone else appears with their face clear and uncensored. The only time he was seen by the media without his mask and no pixelation was during the press conference concerning the death of Paul Gray, though he did not speak.

Jones is a smoker and has broken the law to smoke inside venues along with other members of Slipknot, even when this was subject to a significant fine.^[3]

Discography

References

1. Slipknot Craig Jones Profile
2. "SLIPKNOT – Black-Goat.com – Your #1 Slipknot resource".
3. Doyle, Tomas (January 17, 2015). "Slipknot – Hell Awaits". Kerrang!. No. issue 1551. pp. 16–21 (page 18). 'It's illegal to smoke in these venues,' Clown explains, puffing away. 'If they catch you, they normally fine you. It's, like, $2000, but most nights we just take the fucking fine so we can smoke where we want. Fuck going outside.'

External links

• Slipknot website
• Craig Jones at the Internet Movie Database