KORN’s Touring Bassist ROBERTO ‘RA’ DÍAZ Gets Pied For His 38th Birthday

KORN‘s touring bassist Roberto “Ra” Díaz celebrated his thirty eighth birthday onstage by the band’s headlining dwell efficiency Tuesday night (March 15) at Massive Coronary heart in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Video footage and pictures of the celebration — which included Díaz getting pied inside the face — may be found beneath.

A member of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES since 2016, Díaz is filling in for KORN‘s genuine bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu who launched ultimate June that he would sit out the band’s tour dates in an effort to “heal” after “falling once more” on just a few of his “harmful habits.”

Regarding how KORN ended up recruiting Díaz to fill in for Fieldy, guitarist Brian “Head” Welch knowledgeable 97.9 GRD: “Correctly, there’s COVID and each half, so as soon as we started talking about it, it was an element the place we wished to be careful nonetheless and whatnot. ‘Set off it was a pair, a few months prior to now or regardless of. So we merely started brainstorming and hitting up buddies and whatnot. We would like the slap — we’d just like the slap bass, we’d just like the finger participating in, we’d like any person, ‘set off Fieldy is unique — very distinctive. So it merely type of occurred which means, man, the place Ra, he was open because of SUICIDAL isn’t going out until [2022]. I consider Mike Muir has a once more surgical process or one factor this 12 months. So it merely labored out, man. He acquired right here down, we jammed. He’s a really humble man, and easily very proficient. He can play one thing — from jazz to slap to one thing. He carried out the entire songs with, like, three errors out of 10 songs or one factor — little errors. I suggest, not even errors — it was merely, like, ‘I believed I heard it which means.’ They weren’t even errors. So we now have been, like, ‘Okay. You obtain it down.’”

Together with participating in with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, Díaz has been part of various recording duties, along with a RUSH covers EP that he recorded by the pandemic with Charlie Benante, Brandon Yeagley and Alex Skolnick. Díaz was moreover involved inside the making of Benante‘s covers album “Silver Linings” which was achieved completely remotely by the pandemic in 2020.

Remaining month, KORN guitarist Brian “Head” Welch knowledgeable Spotlight Report that Fieldy was “merely taking a bit time to be alongside together with his family. He is an effective dad,” Welch said. “He has so many youngsters. He has grownup youngsters, kids and youthful youngsters. He’s merely taking time, and we’re giving him the time. We want everyone to be healthful and fully comfortable.

“I suppose we’re going to go and tour this file,” Head continued, referencing KORN‘s not too way back launched album “Requiem”. “I have no idea far more other than that. We love him very loads and we hope to talk with him by the 12 months at some stage, to see the place everybody appears to be at.”

Welch beforehand addressed Fieldy‘s place in KORN all through a November 2021 interview with U.Okay.’s Kerrang! journal. On the time, he acknowledged: “The best issue to do is hold at home, be together with your family members, and start processing. He’s obtained to look out that therapeutic. I nonetheless battle with it. I had a few slip-ups with my ‘harmful habits’ three to 4 years prior to now, so I understand it, nevertheless I dealt with it by hitting it head-on and stopping it from becoming a problem. I’m not concerned because of I do know he’ll be okay.”

KORN singer Jonathan Davis expressed a additional nervous outlook on Fieldy‘s predicament, saying: “I like him; he’s my brother. Nonetheless I watched somebody I care about die and I’m not going to fucking do that as soon as extra. I refuse to. I’ll actually really feel guilt for the rest of my fucking life attributable to that. I tried my hardest nevertheless perhaps if I might been a bit bit tougher there’d have been a particular consequence. I pray that he can decide it out and get greater and can be found once more and be an unlimited part of this band as soon as extra.”