During an interview with Rock Antenne, Corey Taylor opened up about Stone Sour’s hiatus. He says it was easier for him to go solo because he “refuse[s] to compromise [his] vision and [his] art because of certain people’s hindrances.”
Taylor said the following when asked if it’s easier to make solo albums:
“In certain ways. I mean, it certainly is with [my solo] band. My solo band is made up of just such clutch dudes.
Obviously, I’ve got Tooch [guitarist Christian Martucci]. Zach Throne [guitar] is incredible. Dustin [Robert], our drummer, is amazing. And now having Eliot [Lorango], the new bass player, who can play anything you throw at him, man — I mean, it’s ridiculous… it’s criminal how good he is.
When you have a great problem like that… That makes the recording stuff easy, because then, when you hit them with the demos, which largely are just me playing the song and going, ‘Okay, I’m hearing stuff here.’ I give them carte blanche to kind of do what they want, but at the same time I have a clear vision. And that’s where the hard work comes in.
Suddenly you don’t have a band that you can just kind of blend in with or delegate or dictate to. It’s all you — it’s all on you. The artwork’s on you. The production’s on you. The songwriting’s on you. The work’s on you. The press is on you. Everything is on you. And I was kind of like that to begin with. So I was, like, ‘Well, why don’t I do this and be really happy with everything?’
It’s not that I don’t miss some of the guys in STONE SOUR; I still talk to them. But at this stage, I refuse to compromise my vision and my art because of certain people’s hindrances. And that’s all I’ll say.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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