If Wednesday 13 has anyone to thank for getting him the job as the singer in Murderdolls, it’s Joey Jordison’s mom. It was the spring of 2002, and the two men were sitting at the kitchen table in Mrs Jordison’s house in Des Moines, where Joey was still living despite his success in Slipknot.
The 26-year-old Wednesday had signed up to Murderdolls as their bassist. He was playing bars to a couple of hundred people back home in North Carolina with his own band, cross-dressing crypt-creepers Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. What did he have to lose by joining the drummer from Slipknot’s glam-punk side-project?
Murderdolls were initially fronted by a friend of Joey’s from Iowa named Dizzy Draztik, but Wednesday’s guide vocals on the songs they’d recorded so far – which included a bunch of Frankenstein Drag Queens ones – had impressed his more famous bandmate. And, apparently, his more famous bandmate’s mother, too.
“We were at his mom’s table and Joey goes, ‘I think I want Wednesday to be the singer of the band,’” says Wednesday now. “His mom took a puff on her cigarette and went, ‘I think he should be. He sounds better.’ And Joey was just like, ‘OK.’ I’m thinking. ‘Whoa, way to go,
