30 Facts About Jay Weinberg

Jay Weinberg is the son of longtime Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg.

Jay Weinberg played with the punk rock band the Reveling and toured in 2009 as a drummer with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, substituting for his father.

In 2014, Weinberg replaced Joey Jordison as the drummer for Slipknot, and stayed with the band until his firing in November 2023.

In 2024, Jay Weinberg was announced as the new drummer for Infectious Grooves, replacing Brooks Wackerman, and is currently in Suicidal Tendencies.

Jay Weinberg is the son of drummer Max Jay Weinberg, the drummer of the E Street Band since 1975; his mother, Rebecca "Becky", was a former teacher.

Jay Weinberg's mother was a Methodist and his father Jewish.

Jay Weinberg began playing guitar at age 9, and started playing bass at age 12 or 13.

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Jay Weinberg then started playing drums at age 14, getting only few lessons from his father without much instruction and being mostly self-taught, using his father's old gear.

Jay Weinberg played in the New Jersey metal band Chaosis.

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Jay Weinberg attended Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School where he played on the hockey team for a time, played in a band called Sadie Mae, and graduated in 2008.

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Jay Weinberg graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey in 2014.

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Jay Weinberg joined the New York punk band the Reveling in August 2008, which plays before small audiences in venues such as the Ace of Clubs nightspot in Manhattan, various spots in Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

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Jay Weinberg's first appearance with Springsteen was in the summer of 2008, filling in for his father on "Born to run" at Giants Stadium after having watched many other performances during the Magic Tour.

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Once the initial portion of the tour began in early April 2009, Jay Weinberg played from several songs to half the show on most of the dates.

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Jay Weinberg received a very positive reaction from both audiences and reviewers as a re-energizing "spark plug" for the much-older band, with his vigorous, long-hair-flying style inviting comparisons to Dave Grohl and his potential for replacing his father drawing allusions to Wally Pipp.

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Jay Weinberg began playing complete shows in mid-May 2009 during the tour's American first leg, as his father went to California to prepare test runs for The Tonight Show start.

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Jay Weinberg played a number of dates early on in the European second leg of the tour, including at the Dutch Pinkpop festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands in addition to Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee.

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Jay Weinberg played during a few dates of the American third and final leg.

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In February 2010, Jay Weinberg began playing with Madball, a hardcore band based out of New York City.

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However, in September 2010 the group discharged him, with Madball vocalist Freddy Cricien saying, "I'm letting Jay Weinberg go [mid-tour] in Canada because I just feel he doesn't represent this band well on a character-level".

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Jay Weinberg sat in a bit with the band Fences during 2011.

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In 2014, Jay Weinberg became the drummer for Slipknot following the departure of Joey Jordison in late 2013.

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Jay Weinberg had been a fan of the band from a young age, and it had given him motive and "a lot to prove" to his bandmates.

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Jay Weinberg was eventually officially revealed to be the drummer by Jim Root in an interview with Ultimate Guitar on May 13,2015.

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Jay Weinberg later said he was "blindsided" and "heartbroken" over being fired.