“Night of the Living Dreads”

"The Paradigm Shift" is not only the title of Korn's latest CD, it reflects the latest chapter in guitarist Head's life.

After years of the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll lifestyle, Head finally decided he had to get his own head on straight. In 2005, he became a Christian and left the band he helped found in 1993 in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif. As a single dad raising a daughter on his own, he knew his life had to change. His little girl, now 15, helped bring him back to Korn this year.

"It's funny, because my daughter led me out of Korn," he says by phone from a recent tour stop in Yakima, Wash. "I was so worried about her being just lost in the world. For her sake, I needed to be clean. I gave my life to the Lord, and eight years later, she's a teenager, and she's a rocker."

She begged him to take her to a rock concert, so he started calling his friends and they ended up at a Korn show, because that's where she wanted to go.

"Next thing you know, I'm talking to the guys, and then I'm playing one song on stage, and then two weeks later, I'm back in the band," he says. With apologies all around, he and his bandmates are back on good footing.

"It was really just easy," he says.

He'll be onstage Wednesday night (11/20) when Korn and Rob Zombie rock the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Cedar Rapids, and he's glad to be back.

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