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Don't use your cellphone at a Slipknot show or their singer will dump water on you
by Tyler Munro
November 21, 2014
Slipknot might have had their dreams squashed when local lawmakers told them they weren’t allowed to burn oil drums filled with camel shit at their annual Knotfest festival, but that doesn’t mean they’re about to stop trying to dictate how fans enjoy their live show. While it’s not as overbearing as forcing them to smell like burnt feces, Corey Taylor has said in a new interview that he deliberately dumps entire bottles of water on any fan he spots glued to their cell phones mid-set.
“I empty whole water bottles into people as soon as I see them staring at their phone or tweeting or whatever,” he told Detroit’s WRIF radio station.
He says fans have caught on and don’t use their phones as much anymore, because, as he puts it, “I’ve made the statement that I will ruin your phone if you do that in front of my show.”
There was this one poor girl, and god bless her, she was a fan, but at the same time, she wasn’t being very covert about it. So I emptied four bottles into her, and oh my God, it had to have broken her phone. And then she was just bummed for the rest of the night, and I just kept shrugging at her, going, ‘Hey, it’s a live show. Pay attention, or don’t be here.
And because he’s Corey Taylor, lead singer of Slipknot, he took that as a natural segue to complain about the “zombies” of today glued to their social media accounts.
“People need to unplug and realize that they’re missing their lives, dude. It’s sad,” he reiterated. “And that may be me just being an old jerk, but I don’t care. I don’t care. Truth is truth; it doesn’t matter what age you’re at.”
So keep that in mind, maggots—use your phones at a Slipknot show and risk being doused in water by walking Onion article Corey Taylor. [h/t Metal Injection]
