Corey Taylor‘s life story is considered one of perseverance and willpower. Rising up in Iowa, he confronted poverty and substance abuse, however he discovered solace and goal in music, and leveraged that to grow to be one of the crucial profitable musicians of his era.
In 1992, he co-founded Stone Sour, the place he first began feeling a way of brotherhood and inventive goal, as he just lately revealed in an interview with Feedback Def (transcribed by Ultimate Guitar).
“I used to be homeless, however the guys within the band truly chipped in and bought me a lodge room, for us to hang around in. That was my first expertise of being in a brotherhood, first sense of a group, and a primary sense of, ‘Okay, I can carry one thing these guys have by no means had earlier than’, which is a readability of musical voice, and one thing to take this even additional than we would like it to go.”
Taylor additionally famous how Stone Sour was the place the place he first bought comfy along with his guitar-playing abilities. He says that he was usually higher than the lead guitarist within the band, which led him to tackle the function himself. This was a daring and dangerous transfer, nevertheless it paid off ultimately.
“I assume that was the primary yr the place I actually felt confidence in my abilities as a guitar participant. When Stone Sour first began, not solely was I enjoying guitar continuously, however I used to be additionally the lead guitarist. So I used to be not solely the primary author, I used to be all the time the lead guitar participant. That is sort of been the throughline for my entire profession; I might all the time fill within the weaknesses for no matter band I used to be in on the time. Like, after I first began, I used to be virtually all the time higher than the drummer I used to be in a band width. So, every time we’d do demos, I might play all of the drums. However then, I had to choose. I wished to sing, I do not wish to do each. I do not wish to be Phil Collins, I wish to simply sing.”
“With Sour, I used to be, 9 instances out of ten, all the time higher than the guitar participant we had within the band, as a lead participant. So I stated, ‘Fuck it, I will simply deal with it. I am writing all of the music anyway, I’d as properly be the man who’s main the cost.’ After which, we’ll simply get an excellent rhythm guitar participant sort of go along with it. I would say that was the genesis of my actually diving headfirst down, simply leaping off the cliff and praying to God the parachute goes off.”
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