Corey Taylor is sick of playing Slipknot‘s “Wait and Bleed.” The standout track from the Knot’s 1999 debut has been a staple of their set ever since it was released, and Taylor himself has taken to playing it during his solo shows — most recently during his tour kickoff this past Tuesday night (May 2nd).
However, in a new interview on the podcast All Things Music, Taylor revealed that he’s “fucking tired of playing it” live, and actually vetoed the song during a recent Slipknot tour, which garnered the band a negative show review and convinced him to put it back in the set.
“I’m going on record here,” Taylor said, as transcribed by Metal Injection. “I’m not the one who vetoes these things. I vetoed one song for a half a tour — you’re gonna laugh — ‘Wait and Bleed,’ because I was fucking tired of playing it. I was like, ‘can we do one run where we don’t play it?’
“Listen to this shit. We got a [four out of five stars] review from headlining Download specifically because we didn’t play ‘Wait And Bleed.’ I was like, ‘are you fucking kidding me?’ I was so mad. I purposefully was like, ‘I don’t fucking wanna play this song ever again.’
“Well guess what? I’m the asshole. It’s in my fucking solo set now. So there you go. I can’t escape it. People love that song. It’s not a bad song. It’s just old, man. And I, like everybody else who makes music, I love the fact that we have legacy stuff. But man, I fucking played that [forever].”
Listen to the interview below.