Corey Taylor: 11-21-2011, Omaha, Ne

An Evening With Corey Taylor
The Waiting Room Lounge
November 21st,  2011
SOLD OUT

What a truly amazing concert. Corey “mothering  fucking” Taylor had warned us early on in the evening that this wasn’t “going to  be like an a evening with Charlie Sheen.” He elaborated by adding, “That was a  fucking train wreck.” In front of a sold out crowd, Taylor, who confessed there  would be no dancing this evening and no nudity because “No one wants to see this  naked”, opened the evening by reading a selection from his autobiography, Seven  Deadly Sins. “You know I’ve got the #50 best selling Christian book? Yeah.  Seriously. Can you imagine that 80 year old woman who picks this book up?” After reading a portion of the Greed chapter, Corey took the time to answer  questions from the audience. “This is the Q&A portion of the show. Let me  give you the definition of Q&A. You ask questions and I answer them. That  doesn’t mean I’m taking requests. Asking me the meaning behind Snuff is a  question. Asking me to play Snuff is a request.” Taylor admitted that he’d love  to record a 70’s era disco album but only for the shiny suites and bad dancing. While there were funny stories about psychotic fan gifts like rotting pig  hearts, a young woman who wrote her fan letter in blood and wanted Corey to keep  her locked in a cage that Taylor could use and only take her out when he wanted  to play with her and how Corey’s 9 year old son is dealing with his father’s  fame, the touching moment of the evening was Taylor giving us the reasons behind  recording Snuff. “It was all Paul. I brought this song to the table and some of  the guys were like ‘this is a Stone Sour song’ and I’m like, ‘I didn’t write  this for Stone Sour, I wrote this for Slipknot’. Paul was the one who pushed for  us to record Snuff. He was the genious behind Slipknot’s more melodic and mellow  tracks like Vermillion and Snuff. Writing without him won’t be the  same.” Opening the acoustic show with Taylor’s own versions of Stone Sour and  Slipknot songs, we’d grown comfortable with the progress the show was taking.  Taylor started the cover portion of the evening by admiring Bruce Springstein  and, in his best impression, went on to tell us about how much he looked up The  Boss. “I’m a huge huge bruce springteain fan. I’m also a huge fan of the fact  that at like 55 years old he still puts on 6 hour concerts well.” “He still gets  that fucking face on. And he starts talking for like an hour before a song  that’s like 2 minutes. And it’s like the best story you’ve ever heard.” Taylor  then threw us all for a loop and cut into the Scooby Doo theme song while  maintaining his Bruce Springstein voice. The crowd exploded in cheers and  applause. As if that hadn’t lightened the mood, Taylor’s version of  the Spongebob Squarepants theme sure did, proving that he’s not all gruff and  heartless. The saturday morning cartoon montage served as the perfect segue into  Spit It Out. This is the track that first introduced me to Slipknot back in 1996  and a track that I’ve heard Slipknot play live dozens of times. This time around  though was the most fun to hear. Taylor was joined halfway through the set  by Jason Rappise. Rappise has toured with Taylor before, in  both Junk Beer Kidnap band and as Shawn Economaki’s touring replacement in Stone  Sour this past summer. The on stage chemistry between the two of them helped to  enhance the cover songs of the evening. While some of the songs played like  Elvis’ Burning Love and Skid Row’s I Remember You were more humorous, Rappise  and Taylor were spot on the entire night and brought their best with their  covers of Alice in Chains’ Down In A Hole and U2’s With Or Without You. It  was an intimate evening full of laughter, a few tears and some great music.  Sadly though, you could tell who came to the show because they were fans of  Taylor’s music and whom went just to say they saw a solo Corey Taylor. But  that’s how every sold out show is and it leaves a lot of fans out in the cold  who actually deserve to be a part of the evening.
Setlist;
Dying  (Stone Sour cover)
Bother (Stone Sour cover)
Hesitate (Stone Sour  cover)
Zzyzx Rd. (Stone Sour cover)
Through Glass (Stone Sour  cover)
Scooby Doo theme
Sponge Bob Square Pants Theme
Spit It Out  (Slipknot cover)
Snuff (Slipknot cover)
Something I Can Never Have (Nine  Inch Nails cover)
Burning Love (Elvis Presley cover)
Down In A Hole (Alice  in Chains cover)
Psychosocial (snippet)
With Or Without You (U2  cover)
Dead Flowers (The Rolling Stones cover)
Comfortably Numb (Pink  Floyd cover)
Outsider (Ramones cover)
Enocre;
I Remember You (Skid  Row cover)
Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson cover snippet)
Wonderful  Tonight (Eric Clapton cover)
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