Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has contributed his foreword Nothin’ But a Good Time, an upcoming book about hard rock music of the ’80s.
On top of “confessing glam metal fanatic” Corey Taylor‘s “passionate” preface, the book by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock is also set to feature over 200 new interviews with members of Van Halen, Motley Crue, Poison, Guns N’ Roses and more when it’s released in March next year.
Described as a “definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal”, Nothin’ But a Good Time not only sees the hair metal years through the eyes of the artists, but also “managers, producers, engineers, label executives, publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists, magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies and hangers-on who lived it.”
The sypnosis continued, “1980s hard rock was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated — and maybe even helped to define — a spectacularly over-the-top decade.”
While Corey Taylor’s passion for ’80s rock has been backed up by his cameo in Steel Panther’s public service announcement informing fans what (fucking) day it was during lockdown, it’s not the only thing Taylor is currently working on based on the legendary decade.
In fact, the rocker is appearing in an upcoming documentary about science fiction movies from the 1980s called In Search of Tomorrow, with the flick currently in the works from the same filmmakers behind Taylor’s 2019 film which looked at ’80s horror flicks, In Search of Darkness.
The news comes hot on the trail of the clearly very, very busy Taylor announcing in May that his first solo album is “done”.
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“I secretly recorded my first solo album. I did with the band I’ve been using for my solo shows for years, and just a bunch of people that I’ve been working with forever,” he said.
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