Korn Assistant Talks About Jonathan Davis’ Use Of A Teleprompter + Rare Accidents While He Reads Lyrics Off It

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Via a video series titled All In The Family, Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch interviews and highlights crew members that are part of the Korn team. From guitar techs to other folks, Welch sits down with these individuals and they share what it is they do to help out the band.

In one of these All In The Family videos, Welch talks to that of Band Assistant Scott Sheppard; while Scott does many things to help out the band, one detail that really caught our attention was how he helps to run a teleprompter for Korn singer Jonathan Davis.

We have talked about the use of teleprompters before, for when you have a massive library of songs to remember, a teleprompter can be an important tool to use. That is exactly what Scott says – given that the band have 14 albums worth of music. In talking about running the teleprompter for Jonathan Davis, this is what Scott had to say:

“I run the teleprompter for Jon. It’s not a secret; I mean, you can clearly see it. It’s out there on stage. But when you have 14 albums and you’ve written hundreds of songs. When you’re rocking out, you’re not standing still the whole time—you’re walking around, jumping up and down—every once in a while you wanna just see where you are in the song. So that’s my job.”

Welch then asks Scott if Jonathan has ever had a slip up on stage due to a teleprompter mishap:

“It happens, but honestly, it’s very rare. And I don’t know if it’s because – Since I personally know all the songs, it’s really easy for me to follow along. Other people, if they just jumped in the spot and they didn’t know the songs at all, yeah, I could imagine it’d be very difficult.”

Brian then asks Scott what happened during a time that he (Scott) messed up with the teleprompter. Scott says, “He [Jonathan] just gives me an eye, like a side eye.”

What do you make of Jonathan Davis using a teleprompter? Did you even know he uses one? You can check out the full conversation involving Scott and Brian “Head” Welch below.

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