Slipknot and Lamb of God will join forces for a pretty massive tour this summer and to promote it both band's respective frontmen, Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe were recently interviewed by Revolver and Corey Taylor revealed the first time he met Blythe:
REVOLVER: Can you think back to when you guys first met each other?
RANDY BLYTHE: Ozzfest.COREY TAYLOR: Yeah, we were both on Ozzfest in 2004. So just running into each other there and hanging out. And Randy would always have his whip [laughs]. It was fucking awesome. I had Grif [Taylor’s son Griffin] out with me, and at the time he was only two. I’d borrow Hatebreed’s four-wheeler and I’d drive Grif out into the parking lot, and I’d see you out in the middle of nowhere, practicing with your whip. I’d be like, “What the hell is going on out there?”
BLYTHE: [Laughs] Our lighting tech was advised for years about working with us: “Don’t do it! Their singer’s a fucking lunatic! He’s got a whip!” He told us, “All I knew about the band, I kept on hearing about you with this fucking whip! I’m not gonna work for someone with a whip!”
TAYLOR: I’m sure every band you’ve toured with was like, “Beware the whip!” But from my point of view I was like, “Well, I’ve gotta get to know this guy…” Probably at first it was more for self-preservation, like, if I make him my friend he won’t come after me with that fucking whip! And I think you swung it at me once. It might have been when we were walking into one of the venues or something. But Randy actually had his whip-maker—and I don’t know if I’m breaking the façade here but, yes, Randy has a whip-maker—made me a tiny one, which I still have.
REVOLVER: So Randy has a great big whip and you have a tiny little whip?
BLYTHE: [Laughs]
TAYLOR: I’m kind of upset that you’d bring that up in such a casual way, sir. And you know, it’s not the size that matters. I don’t want you to go thinking I can’t get that thing to work. I can make it fucking crack!
I have seen first-hand the type of damage Randy does with his whip and you best stay out of his way.
Randy Blythe, a musician, a surfer, a whipper!
