Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Slipknot, and welcome to my nightmare... at #Aftershock

Slipknot
Slipknot, Aftershock, 2015
Earlier in the day, we'd watched Corey Taylor signing stuff for an anaconda-long line of fans: a face, a book, arms, a pillow, t-shirts, a couple of necks, two or three face masks, an artificial leg, and probably a million printed photos, which ran out before the end of the very-long snake did, and then he was signing tickets and laminates and whatever the fan had handy. And being so friendly, kind, and genuine to each and every person who arrived before him at the table in Crazy Dave's Music Experience tent at Aftershock in Elverta, California. There were a lot of happy faces!

A few hours later, and this happens:

Corey Taylor, vocals, Slipknot
Corey Taylor, Slipknot, Aftershock 2015

Corey Taylor, vocals, Slipknot

Slipknot, live, are made of nightmares. From Corey's torn-and-repaired face to the manic clown and Mr Long Nose spinning round and round at their high-rise drumkits, to the nippy masked-and-beaked guy who runs around and jumps up when least expected, to the guy-at-the-back with long spikes all over his head, to everything about the visual Slipknot show: welcome to your nightmare, far more than anything Alice ever did.

Slipknot
Slipknot, Aftershock, 2015
And, of course, the music. That's scary too. But we love it.

Slipknot
Slipknot, Aftershock, 2015
What a way to finish the first day of this year's Aftershock!!!

Slipknot
Slipknot, Aftershock, 2015
(Next year: Stone Sour too please?)

Many more photos from the show in the Slipknot photo gallery.

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