Korn: Watch Film About Their Tour With 12-Year-Old Tye Trujillo
By Scott Munro
August 7, 2017
A documentary about Korn’s South American tour with the 12-year-old son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo has been released.
Tye Trujillo joined the band for dates across South America earlier this year when regular bassist Reginald ‘Fieldy’ Arvizu was unable to join them on tour due to family obligations.
Korn’s official videographer, Sébastien Paquet created the documentary titled Korn And The Prodigy Son – and it’s narrated by the Metallica bassist. Along with footage of the band’s live dates, Robert talks about how he became aware of Korn’s earlier incarnations back in the early 90s.
Paquet tells Rolling Stone: “Tye is truly a musical prodigy. His skills on the bass, especially for his age, are extraordinary. It's in his DNA. He was always slapping his bass, practicing, jamming and improvising. I have never witnessed a musician being glued to his instrument like that before.
“The band embraced him right away. They loved reliving the emotional moments while watching the film. Fieldy, who obviously was not in South America with the guys, got a kick out of the live footage, watching his band perform with Tye, playing one of his signature Ibanez K5 basses. He is extremely proud of him."
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