So if I had a chance to, man, I would totally be down with that."Ģ021 has been as busy as ever for Taylor. I would love to create something cool and dark with him, and just have fun with it. I've known those guys for quite a while, and ALICE IN CHAINS is one of my favorite bands of all time. It's rad to be able to hang out with your favorite band."īack in 2015, Taylor said that he "would love" to collaborate with ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell. And the fact that I know those guys now is just icing on the cake. And there's probably not a day that goes by that I don't listen to ALICE IN CHAINS. But the great thing is that we can listen to their music and it can help us get past our own pain. The pain they dealt with - some of them won, some of them didn't. It's not just Layne, obviously there's so many people that came from that generation of artists. And that's the great tragedy of people like Layne. And even though you're hearing it, it's so light, you're just, like, 'Fuck. But 'Nutshell' is such an outpouring of trying to share with you the darkness that's in his heart.
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My favorite ALICE IN CHAINS song is 'Would?' Full stop. And that's not even my favorite ALICE IN CHAINS song. It's one of the greatest songs ever written. And if you need any more proof of that, all you need to do is listen to 'Nutshell'. To me, that was the greatest baring of the soul that I ever listened to. He just made it look so fucking easy, and he could sing anything, he could write anything, and the shit that he was writing about was killing him, and yet we loved it. Now, that is not a reflection of the demons that he had to fight, obviously, and that's everything to do with his talent. Layne Staley is still one of the greatest fucking singers that ever lived. I mean, full stop, period, the end of sentence. They revolutionized so much musically and they inspired me to change the way I write music. And I don't just mean that from a grunge standpoint or metal or anything like that. ALICE IN CHAINS, to me, is one of the greatest rock bands that ever was. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It has to be ALICE IN CHAINS. During the question-and-answer portion of his December 13 appearance at Jo Ann Davidson Theatre at the Riffe Center in Columbus, Ohio, SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor was asked to name his favorite of the "big four" Seattle grunge bands - SOUNDGARDEN, ALICE IN CHAINS, PEARL JAM and NIRVANA.