In October, when Eddie Van Halen passed away, a huge hole was left permanently in the music industry, and one person who acknowledges this with great sadness is Slipknot , Corey Taylor .
Talk Is Jericho podcast , the artist reveals that he was preparing to celebrate his wedding anniversary when he heard the news, and how the tragedy changed everything for his day, and for his music. “The sad thing about it is that it happened on my wedding anniversary. Alicia were getting ready when out of nowhere, we received the news. And everyone was calling me. So I immediately spoke to everyone I knew who knew Eddie. Because I never met him. But obviously, his music touched all of us.”
“He was incredible. The influence he had not only on shredders , but on rock bands from the 80s, rock bands from the 90s. He influenced 40 years of musicians. Give me the name of another person who is still alive who had that impact, man,” Corey asks.
“Van Halen was so different, and yet they were the inspiration for millions of bands, man,” Taylor states. “I mean, every band I know, even if they don’t like Van Halen’s music, they respected the technique, the diversity, and the complexity that they built. You have to be really good to play a Van Halen song (…) I can’t play a Van Halen song. I get close, I start the riff, and then I start humming with my mouth.”.
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