Your live shows with Stone Sour look like a very fun experience for both lot and audience, a short in line to the show of a Slipknot show: certainly enjoyable, but also extremely intense, cathartic. Would you say that it`s a somewhat different experience on stage with each band?Yeah we definitely get a slight bit more fun on stage. That`s not to say that we don`t with Slipknot, but with Slipknot it`s always hard to say what`s going on, as we`ve all got the masks (laughs).

It`s definitely a lot easier to simply chat around and be idiots, and you kind of have to do that material to get it fun, it takes the edge off everything that happens to you in the other 23 hours of your day while on tour (laughs).Yeah, I mean, you`ve been on tour for a substantial dimension of the final ten or so_ is that something that`s gotten any easier for you, become more natural over the age? Is it yet a type of life for the show, through those other 23 hours?Well, I definitely look at things a little differently now. I don`t consider that it`s necessarily gotten any easier but I`ve tried to obtain different things to do than what I did ten days ago, when we first started. More grown up, touristy things, you know (laughs)? I go through phases. There are some years when I really girl it, I can`t expect to get second to England, or Germany, or Australia, or Japan, wherever it is_ you go to places that are really dissimilar from where you are from, and get to pass a fair bit of time there, find out a bit near the culture. When you`re away from that for any given number of time you run to lose it, you know? It`s capital to be capable to get second and revisit places, see different parts that you`ve never seen. But like I said you go through phases, where sometimes you`re just like, `I`m fucking sick and stock of Yorkshire Pudding, I only need to go back home and give a big jumbo steak` (laughs). It`s just like everything in that respect. I can`t really bitch about it because what`s the alternative? Taking the same path to make every day, punching a time and winning the same route home every night? This way there`s a lot of variety. Even if you do hit a lot of the same clubs and venues over and over again.You guys are heading out to mainland Europe straight after this, how do you generally find things over there? Does the reception tend to be somewhat consistent, or are there kind of `hotspots`, so to speak?Some areas are a lot better than others: it`s cool because it`s very evocative of when we first came over in 2000 or whenever, with Slipknot. We had to make everything from the earth up, and now that we`ve got a pair of albums under our belt we`re playing some of the bigger places that Slipknot was playing. That was very surprising, playing some of the theatres, and arenas that we played with Slipknot_ it`s cool because we`re kind of able to be the like thing twice, you know?Yeah. Obviously the line side of music, the environs for music has changed quite drastically since you joined Stone Sour, and Slipknot started to get off. What`s your rent on the way that music has changed in the commencement of the digital age, the way that it`s become debased in many people`s eyes, almost throwaway?Oh yeah. It absolutely has become that, it`s almost reminiscent of when rock `n` roll first started getting spun in the fifties. Everything was single-based, nobody cared about records until bands like The Beatles, The Who and Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd too of course, started experimenting with making full-length records. It`s form of a weird evolution, because in some ways we`ve been seeing things going down the toilet. It makes it harder because it trickles down to everything: it doesn`t just effect record labels and bands, it effects the multitude who drive buses for bands, the hotels that the bands book into, it effects the total economy of the music industry. It`s already started effecting touring, the solitary set a lot can have any money at all anymore is by touring. That`s part of the grounds that I haven`t come off the route in the net 11 years. And now you`re going to make every circle in the world, even if they`re successful on radio or successful in the pop world, having to hit the route in place to earn money. They`re not making any money from publishing, and they`re not making any money from selling records, so they bear no choice. And what you`ll see from that is such an over-saturation of every band, y`know, touring bands might be acting in your city on any given night, all fighting to pay their mortgages, I guess! (laughs). You can surely see it that way. It goes pretty deep, and it`s not but that_ The civilisation of purchasing an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don`t really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or obtain a bit torrent, or even just go onto ITunes if they`re leaving to pay for something. It`s only right there, there`s no searching about. No talk to the old crusty guy who runs the mom and pa record shop, `if you wish this, this guy played guitar on this album, at this time_`. There`s no studying the album artwork, or finding out where it was recorded at, who produced it, or how the album art was put together. There are many different artforms that are only being confused because the whole digital revolution has homogenised everything, turned it all into Wal-Mart (laughs). It`s a small bit sad.