Corey Taylor puhuu Slipknotin mahdollisuudesta soittaa alle 100 hengen keikkoja: ”Olemme suunnitelleet sitä”
Kuten todettu, maailmalla jylläävän koronaviruspandemian myötä moni keikka ja tapahtuma on peruttu kuluvalta keväältä ja kesältä. Moni odottaa keikoille pääsyä loppukesästä tai syksyn aikana, mutta osa myös arvelee keikkojen ja isompien tapahtumien olevan ajankohtaisia ja mahdollisia vasta 2021.
Slipknotista ja Stone Sourista tuttu nokkamies Corey Taylor kertoi Rockfeedille kotikaranteenin keskeltä vaimonsa Alicia Taylorin kanssa antamassaan haastattelussa näkemyksensä yleisötapahtumien paluusta ja nykyisten rajoitusten purkamisesta:
”It all depends on how we open this back up. You almost have to attribute it to the way casinos are opened [in Las Vegas], with a soft opening. They basically do an opening before the grand opening and people wander through and it’s not packed, it’s not huge. It’s just seeing what people are going to be into and seeing if they are into what’s being provided.
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That’s basically what they’re going to do with this industry. There’s going to be a soft opening. There are going to be handful of acts. They are going to be the litmus test to see what the world is ready for. It will probably be in smaller venues. Because people will be fucking scared, man. Or, maybe outdoor venues, where people don’t feel like they’re confined. They don’t feel like they’re too stuck together. There’s going to be a sense of paranoia for a while, even after there is a medicine developed, or a vaccine.
So it’s going to take time. There will be some acts that have to fall on the sword. If we do it right, and build that enthusiasm, probably within a year, maybe a year and a half, we’ll see the same enthusiasm for live shows that we did before. Because, I think that once people realize everything is going to be okay, people are going to realize that they take for granted that they haven’t been to a live show in a long time, and the live concert experience will be something they come back to. They’ll be tired of watching it on YouTube, watching it on their phone. They’re going to want to be in the experience. I think there will be a real renaissance of live entertainment.”
Kysyttäessä Slipknotin mahdollisuudesta soittaa pienemmissä paikoissa satapäiselle yleisölle Taylor kommentoi:
”I don’t know, maybe. It helps when it’s a room that long, where we can get all of our crap in. We have so much crap now, we’d have to go to Guitar Center and start finding shit – like ’Clown, you take that kit and Frankenstein it. We’ll just put it in there. No, you can’t shit on it!,’ It’d be funny, it’d be insane.
We’ve actually talked about doing something like that for years, and doing a throwback show. And doing a throwback show in a way where we wear the old gear as well. But that’s… I mean, I don’t know, few and far between. We’d have to make sure that we could do it in a safe way, obviously. Not just from a coronavirus standpoint, I mean that would be IN – SANITY. But, we’ll see. It would be insane.”
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