Woke up today and felt like spinning Korn. I noticed (at one of the streaming platforms) that a 20th anniversary edition of their “See You On The Other Side” album was released last Friday. It triggered many terrific memories of working with the guys.

At MSO PR (the pre-SRO PR company), Marcee Rondan, Kristine Ashton-Magnuson, and I organized a graveside press conference (playing off the album’s title) at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, for which the band arrived fittingly in a hearse.

At the celebrity-studded party at the cemetery later that night, Axl Rose made his first public appearance in many years, which helped garner the event an extra bump of publicity.

I remember walking up to Axl and saying, “Hi Mr. Rose, I’m the publicist for the band and they know you are here. May I take you back to meet them, and if you are OK with it, we have a photographer on hand who would like to take a few photos of you with the guys?”

Axl was very gracious. I think by addressing him as “Mr. Rose,” he felt he was being treated with the right amount of respect. He wound up posing for many photos including this one with KORN’s Munky. 📸 by Getty Images.

Mitch