Korn: Frontman Hospitalized, Band Plays With Various Vocalists

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was hospitalized in the U.K. on June 10 for an unspecified illness, forcing him to miss the band's appearance at Download Festival.

Not letting fans down, Korn performed a shortened 30-minute set on the main stage of Day 2 of the U.K.'s Download Festival, drafting in Jesse Hasek from 10 Years, M. Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold, Dez Fafara from DevilDriver, Benji Webbe from Skindred, Corey Taylor from Slipknot/Stone Sour & Matt Heafy from Trivium, making it the most unique Korn show in the band's history. Check out pictures: photo1, photo2, photo3, photo4. Also, a couple of short video clips and photos have been posted online at KornTV.co.uk.

The group's setlist was as follows:

01. It's On! (Feat. Jesse Hasek)
02. Falling Away From Me (Feat. M. Shadows)
03. Somebody Someone (Feat. Dez Fafara)
04. Coming Undone (Feat. Dez Fafara)
05. A.D.I.D.A.S. (Feat. Benji Webbe)
06. Clown (Feat. Corey Taylor)
07. Freak on a Leash (Feat. Corey Taylor)
08. Blind (Feat. Matt Heafy)

Korn will not appear at Download Festival 2006 in Dublin, Ireland, as well as at previously announced June 13 headlining show at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam, Holland.

Comments

[maddog26]

hope johnathon davis gets better and good see they didnt cancel

[boor]

i hope there is somewhere to get a recording of the whole show... if i find something i'll post it or email me at [e-mail]

[Tom Martin]

Such a shame, I was at Download as was really looking forward to seeing Korn - I was gutted when I found out that Jonathon was ill. The gig was a mixed bag for me, the band sounded great, with a great backing band too - flawless. However the singers weren't so good. Jesse Hasek was aweful, he didn't know any of the words (even though there was an autocue at the front of the stage) and never came in at the right time - not entirely his fault I suppose, probably didn't have much or any time to prepare! M Shadows was just as bad too. Dez was alright, a bit quiet but nonetheless more confident that the others - still disappointing for someone of his caliber though. My faith was resored however when Benji from Skindred came on however, and did an awesome rendition of A.D.I.D.A.S. he was confident, in time and sounded great too. Corey was by a long way the best vocalist to come on though, he was simply great. Very few mistakes, confident and he just sounded brilliant - top notch stuff Korn with Corey Matt Heafy was mediocre, not very interesting to watch or listen to (not that you could hear him over the crowd).

Overall I was disappointed, the gig wasn't brilliant but its not exactly Korn's fault. The band were tight as a ducks bottom and the only faults were the unprepared singers!

Hope Jon gets better soon

[funkynasoo]

i was there and it was really good, metallica gave them a shout out at the end soon jonathan sounds like he is in a bad way, coreys vocals were mint. they also had a guy in a rabbit mask singing with everyone too who was awesome

[faqu]

Please keep it clean.
dont flame/spam.

[Xerothunder]

The videos with Corey Taylor are posted on the KornTV website listed in the article.

[Spade_SanosukeX]

It seems like every year a band member gets hostpitalized. Am I the only one that noticed this?

Hope Jon gets better.

[LPIndin]

hmm, thought the photos would be of the other guys singing with them, but feildy's cool too i guess. Hope Jon gets better.

[Kartman]

Sucks, I wonder what Jon has? Hope it's nothing serious. Get well soon!

[Suicidal pigeon]

i was at the download in ireland and korn didnt even show up! Metallica and Alice in Chains saved the day! They were awsome! Jerry also sang nothing else matters with metallica

[ToesKa]

ah my friend misses their concert in amsterdam tomorrow

[ShanZE]

I hope he gets better... They had better perform at provinssirock 2006 cause they are the main reason I'm going there...

[Mudvayne_4_Life]

omg Imagine corey taylor doing that part on Freak On a Leash were hes like going "omm baba boom oma binga" and all that weird shit. LMFAO!

[Circus]

There's a video of him doing it. It's ****ing awesome.

[x8LPfan8x]

Yea dude ... the crowd went friggin' nuts when he screamed "GO!"

[ibanez666]

holy shit, i would rather go to that show and see all of them then i would go and see a normal korn show.

[INNOCENT VICTIM]

Thats krazy!!! Eye wood have luv 2 b there!! Eye saw them on tour with 10 years and mudvayne!!! It wuz awesome!!! Jon, hope you get better!!!

But wutz with all the pickterz of Fieldy??? Its ok i think he is one of the best bass men today.

KoRn RuLeZ!!!!

[bloke]

to be honest i thought it was some kind of joke, i mean so much coincedence that its happened on the same stage as lars from metallica missed a gig exactly 2 years ago, but was pretty cool, though wouldn't have liked to see davis, get better soon!

[Goshdangit88]

Dude those videos suck ass. But Corey did a good job as Korn's singer.

[Black Revolver]

man i wish i was there, stupid exams
corey taylor sounded ace on that vid, must of been a great experience

[Volkl]

I was there. It was pretty damn sweet.

[jables23092]

i wish the whole video was up.....corey taylor has the best damn growl ever, he did a pretty freakin good job too for right on the spot...thats the rock spirit right there!

[fragydig529]

Where are the videos? KornTV hasn't been updated since Live & Rare was released...

[im not mental]

the videos are terrible.

wow, last year lars ulrich gets sick and now jonathon davis? it seems like a curse.

[goest]

dude, did corey do the scat part of Freak on a Leash?

[niratic]

what the hell there are only pictures of fieldy

[jof1029]

checked

[Selin]

I'm glad they didn't make them sing offstage like they did with their guitarists.

[arrayofemotions]

Hmm. I wonder if they'll cancel for Graspop in a few weeks. I don't really care if they do or don't 'cause i wasn't planning on seeing them anyway... but maybe the GMM management could find some band better as replacement

[R.RHOADS IS GOD]

hope he gets better soon

[fusugar]

poor old jonothan davis
i hope matt heafy didnt scream i mean i dont mind bands that scream but thats not what korn are all about. i would have liked to hear that guy from skindred that would have been cool

[Andjustice.....]

JD Letter from Korn.com
Hey everyone,

I am writing this to thank everyone who called, or emailed me the past few days, believe me, they have been some of the scariest days of my life.

This is the short version of what happened. I started getting these weird bruises all over my body about 2 weeks ago. I was getting very weak after the shows so I saw a doctor in London Friday. He took some blood tests and when the results came in they rushed me to the hospital. It turned out that I have ITP, it's too hard to spell, but basically it's a blood infection, where because of an allergic reaction I had to some medication, my blood platelets, the stuff my bone marrow produces to help my blood clot, were really low. I mean way low. Most humans have between 140 and 400 in their cells. I had 5.. no joke... FIVE. If I continued to headbang on stage I could have had a brain hemorrahage and dropped dead on the spot.

My doctors ordered me to remain at the hospital until they could get my blood in some kind of healthy shape.

I want to thank the doctors, nurses and staff at The London Clinic, all the singers who performed with the band at the London festival: Cory from Slipknot/Stone Sour, Dez from Devildriver, Jesse from Ten Years, Benji and Skindred, Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold, and Matt from Trivium. I want to thank my band and crew for all their love and support, my loving family and friends and most of all the fans, the best fans in the world.

The doctors are telling me that each day I've been here in the hospital my platelet count has been going up and I should be healthy to play in a few weeks. The doctors have cleared me to walk around a bit but I am unable to perform a show or travel right now. They will know more in a day or two but I want everyone to know that we will do our very best to come back soon to play any dates we are unable to play on this tour.

Thank you,

Love Jonathan.

Source korn.com

thats whats wrong with him

[quinny1089]

i have to say corey taylor did really well...i only saw him and matt singing with korn and corey really was superb

[tallicawashere]

any news on whether or not they are going to be continuing the Family Values tour...he better be healthy by August...i already paid the 9 dollars for the ticket haha

[christophicus]

What website are teh videos on ?? i really want to see them.

[RainbowBassist]

that's pretty sad. hope he's better.

[christophicus]

I found them ,,here they are

http://kornunleashed.net/main.php

Scroll down a bit and you will see them.

[Cliff_Hetfield]

Wow, who cares? Nah I'm playing. I guess I hope she gets better. Don't really want his band touring around.

[Filmbot]

i was wondering why they didnt play download in ireland,i was happy though cause i dont like korn and alice in chains were moved up onto the main stage and played great.

[atreyukicksass]

thats kick ass that they played with different singers

[pant weasel]

Lol, why are all the pictures of Fieldy?

[King ofKumbucha]

Hopefully his vocal chords all snapped.

[555666]

did they take him to the dentist while he was there?

[97KoRnKid05]

i hopefully Jonathan gets better soon and its nothing serious, im weirded out that lars said "he is in a bad place right now"

[pfiddy4]

seeing corey taylor do clown and freak on a leash must have been absolutly disgusting!

[ChurchNSkate]

Kinda cool. I wouldn't want to see that...but it's nice of them to fill in.

[cHoKiNgViCtIM]

some of those guys id wanna see do korn songs like shadows and taylor that could have been pretty cool

[CrashedTheShow3]

haha

dude is that someone from TSOAF in the background of photo 3??

[l3xbi]

TSOAF = ?
05. A.D.I.D.A.S. (Feat. Benji Webbe)
This was pretty good vocals.

06. Clown (Feat. Corey Taylor)
07. Freak on a Leash (Feat. Corey Taylor)
The best part of the gig, corey plays the crowd so well as everyone likes him. Did vocals pretty well.

08. Blind (Feat. Matt Heafy)
Would of been better if corey did it, Timing i think was off (was pretty stoned so dont really remember) but his vocals didn't really fit.

Was a shame Davis couldn't make it, hope he gets a quick recovery!

[Blackskall]

hes recovering, on there site www.korn.com hes writes a letter saying that hes in the hospital recovering. It was something about his blood plate count was really low from a reaction to his medication. The letter can tell you better than I can

[Gemini]

Isn't ITP one of the big things that homosexuals were getting when AIDS was getting more common?

[Shorty02]

Very cool of Korn to say "the show must go on" like that. Very very cool for their fans.

[slayerbizkit]

Fieldy looks badass nowadays

[drshock]

That must have been sick to see corey taylor play with korn.

[MeTaLJP13]

Uh I thought Corey Hated KoRn. But I must must have missed som10. Well either way I bet it was good. Especially Matt from Trivium.

[theguitarist]

cHeCked/dEletED.

[xXbleed4meXx]

dude i had so much more respect for M. Shadows before i knew this...korn is the 2nd worst band of all time, next only to limp bizkit. shame on you, M. Shadows, your band is way better than korn.

[ObscuredByLight]

CrashedTheShow3 wrote:

haha

dude is that someone from TSOAF in the background of photo 3??

i doubt that. i really do, what would they be doing there?!

[Kirkomelette]

even though i don't really like the band, its going to be interesting to see who they get to play for them at the finnish festival Provinssirock, where they are supposed to play next weekend.. not such a broad range of international bands there anyway!

[Metal_stuff]

Very cool way to keep the show way. I think whenever bands mix its interesting to see how styles mix.

[Kobrakai]

Apparently it's a blood disease that, if left untreated could have caused a brain hemerage that would have killed him by headbanging. :S

[demonic_fishie]

Corey Taylor was awesome, even though I'm not really a fan of KoRn or Stone Sour. It was still a good show, even without Jonathan, and credit to them for going through with it.

[Biggs]

I was there and I thoughtCorey Taylor did the best job...did anyone else notice how Matt Heafy seemed to lose it in the fast bits in Blind?

I heard rumours Jonathon Davis overdosed on something...probably untrue, but, you never know. Whatever it is, I hope he gets better soon.

Oh...and how good were Metallica?!??! I'm still blown away.

[metallicman]

i was pretty gutted to find out jon wasnt playing, i bet he did have an overdose of drugs otherwise they would have told us what happened to him already, but they were still good and corey taylor made up for it, really good.

[metallicman]

and metallica brought a tear to my eye, they were brilliant!

[chinesechipmunk]

I was there, and nobody even noticed the band come on the stage - a cameraman kept finding girls sat on people's shoulders, and the crowd would yell "Get your tits out!!". The people working at download were fun. The security looked to be enjoying the music, while still being sensible, the cameramen were always following the girls... it was great!

It was quite funny. Poor Jonathan, though. I don't much like Korn, but a festival in front of more or less 50,000 people is a bad gig to miss...

Mudvayne_4_Life wrote:

omg Imagine corey taylor doing that part on Freak On a Leash were hes like going "omm baba boom oma binga" and all that weird shit. LMFAO!

He did really well at that part. The crowd were cheering him on with it. It was fun...

[chinesechipmunk]

Oh, just read on their website - he had a blood infection, which stopped his marrow producing enough platelets to clot his blood. Apparently the normal rate per cell, is between 140 and 400, whereas, in the man's own words,

I had five... No joke... FIVE. If I continued to headbang on stage I could have had a brain hemorrhage and dropped dead on the spot.

He says his count is going up, and he should be well enough to play in a few weeks time. He also says the band will try to make up for missed dates asap.

[Logz]

checked

[k_sanders]

man i hope john gets better and i hope its not somthin serious!

[chinesechipmunk]

k_sanders wrote:

man i hope john gets better and i hope its not somthin serious!

No offence, dude, but I can tell you haven't been reading the comments. Look to the one above yours, because it definitely was serious...

[Korn_fan_phx]

Filmbot wrote:

i was wondering why they didnt play download in ireland,i was happy though cause i dont like korn and alice in chains were moved up onto the main stage and played great.

u r dumb i would rather see korn than alice in chains now. because alice in chains without lane staley is like wiping before you poop it makes no sense!

[Korn_fan_phx]

corey didnt do too badly on freak on a leash although hes no jon davis

[chinesechipmunk]

Korn_fan_phx wrote:

Filmbot wrote:

i was wondering why they didnt play download in ireland,i was happy though cause i dont like korn and alice in chains were moved up onto the main stage and played great.
u r dumb i would rather see korn than alice in chains now. because alice in chains without lane staley is like wiping before you poop it makes no sense!

Pretty much the only punctuation you put in that was in the wrong place... and you're calling him dumb?

[N_OfKoRn]

Jonathan Davis Released From The Hospital
13 Jun 2006
by red ufo
comments (31)
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis will soon return to the United States after having been hospitalized over the weekend in London with a blood illness.

Davis' father, Rick Davis, said Monday afternoon that his son has been released from a London hospital and is back at a hotel.

"If everything goes as planned, he will fly back to the United States in the next 24 to 48 hours to return home," the elder Davis said. "He will remain under close medical attention. He'll probably go directly to a medical facility."

Davis, executive director of the Kern County Board of Trade, said his son became ill with ITP -- idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura -- an autoimmune disorder. Davis' blood platelet count fell dangerously low because of an allergic reaction to a medication, according to a note on the Korn Web site.

"If I had continued to headbang onstage I could have had a brain hemorrhage and dropped dead on the spot," Davis' note says.

"His spirits have been good through the whole thing, but he appreciates the severity of the disorder and the importance of getting medical attention," the senior Davis said.

Rick Davis said Korn bassist Reggie "Fieldy" Arvizu and guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer will accompany his son on the return trip.

"They said they 'would not leave their brother behind,' " Mr. Davis said.

Billboard.com reported that Davis, who, like the rest of the band, hails from Bakersfield, was hospitalized with an unspecified illness. But Davis' Web note said he began noticing "weird little bruises" on his body about two weeks ago and was growing weak. After seeing a London doctor on Friday, he was rushed into care and diagnosed, the note said.

Davis' note said the last several days have been "some of the scariest" of his life.

In Davis' absence at Britain's Download Festival, Korn, touring in support of its latest album, "See You on the Other Side," received onstage help from vocalists of Slipknot, Devildriver, 10 Years, Skindred and Avenged Sevenfold, Billboard.com reported.

Billboard.com reported that Davis' illness forced the band to cancel a series of European dates until at least early July.

Korn is due to kick off its Family Values Tour on July 27 in Virgina Beach, Va., Billboard.com reported. Stone Sour and Deftones are among bands scheduled for the tour.

+ glad Jonathans feeling better+ and Corey did a pretty good job on FOAL

[Korn_fan_phx]

chinesechipmunk wrote:

Korn_fan_phx wrote:

Filmbot wrote:
im not talking about academic wise dumbness retard i am talking about the fact that alice in chains is not as good without there real lead singer so >:P


i was wondering why they didnt play download in ireland,i was happy though cause i dont like korn and alice in chains were moved up onto the main stage and played great.
u r dumb i would rather see korn than alice in chains now. because alice in chains without lane staley is like wiping before you poop it makes no sense!


Pretty much the only punctuation you put in that was in the wrong place... and you're calling him dumb?

[Korn_fan_phx]

my intentions were quite clear u dork

[Korn_fan_phx]

besides my exclamation point is in the right spot!!!!!

[Raoulbanez]

dude, very best wishes to Jonathan
one thing, KoRn must be warned by somewhat, they are getting hip-hopalized:S their pure metalkindy music is getting softer... a pity... but still nice!