James Shaffer

James Shaffer, 2010

James Christian "Munky" Shaffer (born June 6, 1970 in Rosedale ) is an American guitarist . He became famous in particular because of his work for the nu-metal band Korn .

Career

Shaffer began playing the guitar in his youth on the recommendation of a doctor after his fingertips were cut off in a bicycle accident. The doctor hoped that the therapy would be successful due to the fine motor skills involved in playing a guitar.

According to Shaffer, he was not accepted by Korn because of his particularly good musical skills, but simply because the then still young Brian Welch and Reginald Arvizu found his long hair so suitable.

In 2007 Shaffer founded his own record label "Emotional Siphon Records", with which he wants to give hip-hop , rock and jazz artists the chance to make a living from their own music. Since 2008 he has been working on a project called Fear and the Nervous System with prominent support from Faith No More bassist Billy Gould and Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman . October 2011 the album was released as a download. Despite this sideline, he has declared that he will remain a member of Korn.

Shaffer married in January 2000 and has a daughter from this marriage. He has been married to Evis Xheneti since January 2012.

Trivia

• Nicknamed "Munky" Shaffer has given the similarities between his splayed toes (with the foot of a monkey English. "Monkey") get.

• With the "Ibanez K7", Shaffer and bandmate Welch have their own seven-string guitar in Ibanez's signature series. He also has his own signature guitar , the Ibanez ApexBBK

• His statement in an interview with Metal Hammer magazine in 2002 caused great misunderstanding when he said that Hitler must have gone to heaven because he did what he thought was right and there could be nothing wrong with that. He publicly apologized for this statement.

Bands

• grain
• formerly LAPD
• Fear And The Nervous System

Web links

• James "Munky" Shaffer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Metal Hammer: James "Munky" Shaffer does not leave Korn for Fear And The Nervous System (last accessed July 1, 2011). link
2. ↑ Ibanez: Munky (Korn) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ laut.de: Korn: Hitler and Limp Bizkit , July 12, 2002.