Everyone hung out and it was a good time, but it was when I was dealing with anxiety for the first time so I spent a lot of time in my bunk. Other than that, it was the exact bill that we wanted to put on the road. We always tried to get Deftones on the tour but we could never figure it out. The kids who liked us and Bizkit came from the same school of thought as us so having Cube on there made total sense to everyone. He was bringing old NWA into his set and the crowd loved it. I didn’t worry about the crowd not taking to him at all because he ripped it up every night and you can’t deny that. That guy is a legend and people had to respect that. We all listened to hip hop at that time and it was a big influence on us and the scene, and who better than Ice Cube? That was the shit. We were convinced we needed to have a hip hop act on there. It was a stepping stone to all of our bands and that scene taking over for a couple of years. It was the first time we ever played arenas and it seemed everyone who was on that tour – except for Cube, who was already huge – blew up and were playing bigger shows after. It served its purpose in the way it exposed people to what was going on at that time and what we were doing in Korn. I think the cage was Fieldy’s idea and to this day, I still think it’s one of the coolest things we’ve ever done. Everyone was given a full production so it felt like you were getting a headline show from all of the bands: Limp Bizkit with their big-ass spaceship, and we had the Korn Kage that put kids on the stage, rocking out with us. We were at a turning point in heavy music and it felt huge and we wanted to put something on that showed what the fuck was going on. It was about showing what was going on at that time. We went back and forth with our management and figured out what we were going for and how to do it. For years, we always wanted to do a festival and put something together that was new. During that time, these acts were prominent for the nu metal scene, and Metal Hammer spoke with KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis to reflect on the experience: Back in 1998, the tour didn’t involve the Deftones, but it included KoRn, Rammstein, Ice Cube, Orgy, Incubus, and Limp Bizkit. It’s hard to believe that the Family Values Tour is entering its 20th year anniversary.
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