COREY TAYLOR: 'If You Don't Leave Something Behind That's Worth Sh*t Then Why Even Do It?'

The Sydney Morning Herald recently conducted an interview with STONE SOUR/SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor. A few excerpts follow:

On being concerned with STONE SOUR's connection to an alcoholic concoction:

"It's a very unfortunate drink — whiskey, sour and orange juice and it's quite gross — it's never on our rider. We look at it like the METALLICA syndrome. At the end of the day METALLICA doesn't mean anything as a word but as a band and a body of music it means everything. That's the way we look at it, we define it by the music we make."

On an early attempt by the band at a clever promotion that backfired:

"The second show we ever did we had this stupid idea to basically set up a deal at the bar for dollar STONE SOUR shots. We all did one before the show and we almost puked. It was like, 'Wow, this was really not a good idea.' Of course they only sold five at the end of the gig and all five were to the people in the band. It was a lesson learned — we try and get as far away from that connotation as possible."

On why he resurrected STONE SOUR in 2002:

"I wanted to do something different and SLIPKNOT was so different to anything I'd ever done. But there was a sense of diversity that kind of got weeded out when we did the first two [SLIPKNOT] albums. I think that's why I started looking around for something different, right around the Iowa album. Luckily, STONE SOUR was here. Now I've got both."

On letting SLIKNOT and STONE SOUR run side by side:

"You lose a lot of sleep; you're not always that healthy but at the end of the day it's worth it. My whole thing in this business is legacy; the money can come and go, the fans are great but at the end of the day if you don't leave something behind that's worth s--- then why even do it? I hope that's what I'm doing."