When you decide to have music as an important part of your life and to live on it, things might get a little awkward due to time and other limits it imposes to your life. Many musicians had weird jobs before their careers took off. Corey Taylor is just one more. Take a look at what he told Let There Be Talk:
“I never really had it pretty good. I grew up poor, I was homeless for a while. Even after I got into my 20s and whatnot – hard keeping jobs and being a musician.”
“I did roofing and siding for a while. But then I was like, ‘This ain’t for me.’ And then I worked in restaurants… The best job I ever had, three and a half years – I was a sales associate at a p*rn shop. And it was the f*cking best gig. I didn’t clean any fluids.”
“Yeah, the Adult Emporium. It’s not there anymore, it got bobbed by another place.”
“Dude, that’s another book I’m gonna write. From the moment I started that gig until the day I left… I wrote all the lyrics for the first Slipknot album [1999’s self-titled] in there. Because I worked from midnight to eight, which is the best time to work.
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!