Corey Taylor has recalled the second he first met Ozzy Osbourne, when the Black Sabbath frontman requested if he might be the tenth member in Slipknot.
The Slipknot and Stone Bitter frontman, who just 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 (by way of Louder Sound). “Sharon gave us somewhat extra leeway due to that. We did some loopy shit, however she’d be, ‘It’s tremendous, 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 mentioned. “Abruptly, Ozzy comes bounding up: ‘Sharon, are you able to assist me with my earrings?’ And Sharon goes, ‘Ozzy, this is among the members of Slipknot, it’s Corey, he’s the singer.’
“He seems at me and goes, “You’re the blokes 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 numerous musical heroes, together with Metallica.
“I’ve met them in so many phases of their profession,” he mentioned “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 food and drinks.
“We have been like these Dickensian road rats, consuming all their beer and stuffing our pockets. These guys have been watching us, rolling their eyes and laughing.
“Once we frolicked with the subsequent time, James was sober. I had gotten sober myself, and he mentioned: ‘For those who ever want a chat, should you 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 mentioned of 2005’s ‘Employment’. “It’s actually rad and tremendous legit. The extra I acquired into that album, the extra it impressed me to write down. To today, I hearken to it and actually get down with it. I’ve been threatening to do a canopy of ‘Fashionable Means’ for a very long time. I’d do a extremely cool acoustic model of it, which might be actually rad.”
In different information, Taylor just lately revealed that he started releasing solo music as he felt he wasn’t getting the credit score he deserved for writing along with his two bands.
In a three-star assessment of ‘CMF2’, NME mentioned the document was a “fascinating perception into the dichotomy that drives one of many best bands of the twenty first Century”.
Osbourne, in the meantime, has undergone what he says will likely be his “remaining” neck surgical procedure.
