STONECRAZY
Corey Taylor may divide his time between two of America’s biggest rock bands, but it seems he’s having the time of his life. Brad Barrett endeavours to discover what keeps him ticking.
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preading your time between projects is diffi cult enough but when both are as successful as Slipknot and latterly Stone Sour the level of commitment and work ethic required would make even Bruce Springsteen seem like a slacker. Yet this is what vocalist Corey Taylor does for a living and, as he takes a seat with Playmusic and Stone Sour’s co-guitarist Josh Rand at Camden’s Dingwalls a few hours before an intimate MTV gig before embarking on a UK co-headline tour with Avenged Sevenfold, both Stone Sour men are in a humorous mood. “This is what happens when you only sleep for an hour,” says Josh as the two of them consistently burst into fi ts of giggles over the slightest thing. It’s almost as if they are communicating telepathically and having a private joke,
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possibly at Playmusic’s expense. “I think the biggest thing with us is we’re always constantly laughing.” “You have to,” agrees Corey, referencing their survival techniques on the
road.
“Instead of getting mad about things we just kind of laugh and go with the punches and have fun,” clarifi es Josh. “The fl ipside of that is when somebody gets too pissed off we still laugh because that kind of drives them over the brink too. So you kinda have to pick your spots. You can’t take this shit too seriously or you’ll lose your mind you know?”
“If you spend any amount of time in close quarters, there’s gonna be those
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