Hi everyone my name is Corey Taylor. Slipknot, Stone Sour
all that other stuff and this is What's in My Bag.
I'll just start grabbing it at random. We have 'Strange Magic: The Best of E.L.O.'
I came into liking Electric Light Orchestra
a little late. I didn't appreciate them until way later to be honest.
And it just seems like in the last 10 years their music has really kind of permeated everything
to the point where I was going and seeing 'Guardians Volume 2'
right out of the gate it's 'Mr. Blue Sky.' I was like, okay I get it.
Fine, I'm into it.
This is the first album I've ever bought by them.
This is great, it's got so many damn good songs. I mean 'Telephone Line' is gorgeous.
Item two speaks for itself.
I grew up a Rocky Horror kid.
There was a great place in Des Moines, Iowa called Billy Joe's Pitcher Show.
Pitcher as in, there was a bar as well as there was a theater.
So there were tables instead of seats.
There were levels that went down into the front, and then that's where we would do the floor show.
I played Riff Raff quite a few times but I could never get
the the Dairy Queen haircut to stay, no matter how much weirdness we put in my hair.
There was sex under tables, we were smoking, drinking, fucking, like it was insane.
And it was some of the best times of my life. It was not only
pure opulent decadence, but it was also me discovering my people.
So this t-shirt, for me, represents a part of my life that I loved dearly.
I remember with absolute fondness. I still have some scars to show for it, especially up here
and a bittersweet happiness because you can remember them but never go back.
Item #3, 'I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution'
Music history is one of my favorite topics.
We were just talking about this when we were down on the floor.
One of my favorite books is 'Please Kill Me' which is written about the east coast version
for the most part, of the punk movement in the 70s and the early 80s.
And it's written in a way that is almost like interviews, when it's their own words
and that's what this book is as well. So it makes it feel
a little more intimate, a little more conversational.
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Artist: I would watch all day long.
At the time MTV felt like a local low-budget station.
The VJs would make glaring errors or forget to turn off their mics.
I mean, it was horribly produced. I felt like this is television for me.
I was 10 years old when MTV hit
and I can remember going, what is this? And then, being a music fan, I mean, it was fantastic.
Janet Jackson, Artist:
How exciting back then, being a teenager and having something so creative, so fresh, so new.
It was about waiting for your favorite video and not really knowing what hour it would hit.
So you'd have to watch all day long.
#4, one of my musical spirit animals
the late great Frank Zappa.
I am a huge Frank Zappa fan.
The great thing about Frank's music is it was loaded with punk attitude.
It might not have sounded like it, but he was an agitator.
Y'know for people who say or claim that his lyrics are corny or funny or whatever
he himself described it as, look, people only really like to listen to music that has words on it
so I just put words on it. It doesn't matter what the words are. It's more about the music.
Which to me, I mean, in a way pisses me off because I'm a writer
but at the same time makes me love him even more.
He doesn't get nearly enough credit as creative as he truly was.
I mean he was able to marry jazz, classical, rock, metal, prog, punk.
You name another person who's been able to do that.
'Clash on Broadway.' Kids should be issued this.
I know a lot of people have an issue with how pretentious they can be sometimes.
I get it, y'know, it's stuff that you don't really put on if you're looking to have a ton of fun
but it's also, like in retrospect, it's a lot of fun, man.
For every 'London Calling' there's a 'Rudy Can't Fail.'
For every 'White Riot' there's a 'Train in Vain.'
They wrote pop songs, they just happened to be about uber-politics, y'know?
So much of my attitude towards writing songs, or the way that I approach meaning and
taking confluence and using it as influence
comes from my love for this band.
If you're into punk and you've not listened to The Clash, you're not really into punk.
You need to go home and fucking rethink your life and then get this.
You can never have too many Wu-Tang shirts, I'm sorry.
There's actually a version, I don't know if you guys have seen this, the one with the Ric Flair head.
It's just like this, but it's Ric Flair's face going...
so it's WOO-Tang, like it's fucking genius and I'm really mad that I didn't think of it.
Wu-Tang is one of my favorite hip-hop bands.
I love aggressive shit. I love being able to feel a lot of attitude.
That's why I don't listen to a lot of modern hip-hop, because it just feels dead.
So I go back and I listen to the shit that inspired me.
I listen to NWA, I listen to Wu-Tang, I listen to old Run DMC which has a million times more attitude
than half that fucking gold-plated bullshit that's on fucking radio right now.
Figure it the fuck out.
So yeah, Wu-Tang, man, you want to talk about just getting
a bunch of geniuses together and just letting them fucking unleash
I mean it doesn't get much better than that first album
and I still listen to it to this day. I put this album on
when I'm working out like crazy and I just want to feel nuts.
And keep people away from me at the gym.
And that helps, especially when I'm screaming
'Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin' to fuck with.'
People leave me alone.
So yeah, they ain't nothin' to fuck with, and that's why I wear this with pride. With pride!
And that's what's in my bag.