Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor has penned the foreword to Nothin' But A Good Time, an upcoming book about the hard rock music explosion of the 1980s.
Aside from the intro by “avowed glam metal fanatic” Taylor, the bulk of the hefty 576-page oral history draws on over 200 new interviews with members of Van Halen, Motley Crue, Poison, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row and more. Authored by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock, the “Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion” is due out in March 2021.
A synopsis said that the book “captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians, 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.”
It added, “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.”
Taylor is such a fan of '80s hard rock that he once tried out for — and almost got — the lead singer spot in Velvet Revolver, the band formed by several then ex-members of Guns N' Roses. He told us a while back about the experience: “We did a bunch of stuff, you know. We did a bunch of stuff from the first album, we did a bunch of stuff that we had been kind of demoing back and forth and whatnot, seeing if it would work, you know, just like that, and it was a lot of fun, man. You know, we ended up writing a bunch of stuff as well and just kind of seeing what would happen in that creative sense, you know.”
