Corey Taylor has recalled the second he first met Ozzy Osbourne, when the Black Sabbath frontman requested if he could possibly be the tenth member in Slipknot.
The Slipknot and Stone Bitter frontman, who lately launched his second solo album ‘CMF2‘, was reflecting on how his band acquired on the line-up at Ozzfest in 1999.
“The rationale Slipknot acquired onto Ozzfest [in 1999] is as a result of we have been [Ozzy’s son] Jack’s favorite band,” Taylor shared in a brand new interview with Traditional Rock journal (through Louder Sound). “Sharon gave us a little bit extra leeway due to that. We did some loopy shit, however she’d be, ‘It’s nice, it’s Slipknot’”.
He went on to recall his first assembly with The Prince Of Darkness. “I used to be sitting at a desk with Jack and Kelly and Sharon,” he stated. “, Ozzy comes bounding up: ‘Sharon, are you able to assist me with my earrings?’ And Sharon goes, ‘Ozzy, this is likely one of the members of Slipknot, it’s Corey, he’s the singer.’
“He appears to be like at me and goes, “You’re the fellows with 9 members? I wanna be quantity ten!” I used to be like, ‘Dude, you’re Ozzy, something you need!’ It was like assembly Superman.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Taylor mirrored on assembly his varied musical heroes, together with Metallica.
“I’ve met them in so many phases of their profession,” he stated “The primary time was once they headlined over Slipknot at a present within the early 2000s. James [Hetfield] and Jason [Newsted] invited us into their dressing room to hang around, and we have been in such awe of them that the one factor we may do was raid their foods and drinks.
“We have been like these Dickensian avenue rats, consuming all their beer and stuffing our pockets. These guys have been watching us, rolling their eyes and laughing.
“After we frolicked with the subsequent time, James was sober. I had gotten sober myself, and he stated: ‘In the event you ever want a chat, if you happen to ever want something, simply name me.’ He’s a gracious dude.”
In a latest interview with NME, Taylor additionally made the revelation that he’s a hardcore Kaiser Chiefs fan.
“Particularly that first album, man,” Taylor stated of 2005’s ‘Employment’. “It’s actually rad and tremendous legit. The extra I acquired into that album, the extra it impressed me to put in writing. To this present day, I take heed to it and actually get down with it. I’ve been threatening to do a canopy of ‘Trendy Approach’ for a very long time. I’d do a extremely cool acoustic model of it, which might be actually rad.”
In different information, Taylor lately revealed that he started releasing solo music as he felt he wasn’t getting the credit score he deserved for writing together with his two bands.
In a three-star assessment of ‘CMF2’, NME stated the document was a “fascinating perception into the dichotomy that drives one of many biggest bands of the twenty first Century”.
Osbourne, in the meantime, has undergone what he says can be his “remaining” neck surgical procedure.
