Corey Taylor: “You either take advantage of what you’ve got going on now, embrace it and live in that moment, or you watch it fade away”
Corey Taylor has to show us something on his phone. He’s in the middle of explaining how he wrote his second solo album, CMF2, and there’s a song on there called We Are The Rest – a punky, boisterous number that sounds a bit like Rancid. He’s got “the idea” for it here, somewhere in his mobile. After a moment of frowning, fiddling and muttered cursing, he finds what he’s after. ‘Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Guitar stop. Drum beat keeps going. Bass driving. Vocals. Doo doo doo.’ This is Corey, humming the riff to himself like Beavis and Butt-Head, scatting possible vocal lines, giving himself instructions, while in the background clicking his fingers in the absence of a real metron...
