Stone Sour/Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has relaxed his stance on smartphone obsessed fans at shows since slapping a phone out of a fans hand at a Slipknot show last year. But that’s still not to say that he backs the disconnect and lack of engagement. Speaking recently with Loudwire, he offered:
“I’ve seen people mosh to Stone Sour‘s ‘Bother‘ before, it’s very off putting. Listen, if you’re out there, you need fucking help. You don’t mosh to ‘Bother.’ You hold your phone up. You used to hold your lighter up. Now we hold our phones up, or we stare into it while we’re watching real life on your screen. Knock that shit off, too. Stop it.”
He continued:
“It’s tricky for me ’cause I am the dude who knocked a phone out of someone’s hand and then caught hell for it. My thing has always been… It’s fine. Bring your phone, take pictures, do whatever you want.
But why? You’re there. Take pictures, it’s fine. But why are you filming it? It’s one thing to film it, it’s another thing to just be staring at your screen while you’re filming it.
It’s right there! Are you so terrified of real life that you can’t do anything unless it’s on that little four-by-four screen? Ugggh. It’s very weird.”
