Pre-Concert Hugs
“I avoid everyone like a fucking disease backstage,” Crahan says. “We say everything we have to say in the huddle. Corey [Taylor] summarizes the day, reminds us of the past, if we had been here before, gives us a couple things to focus on. And then basically it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ and then we come out.
Asked if it’s true the band all said “Fuck New York” before going onstage at Madison Square Garden, Crahan didn’t hold back. “It’s ‘Fuck New York,’ it’s, ‘Fuck Madison Square Garden,’ because if we give in to [a moment], it will take from us in a way that we will not be able to provide what you need, and that’s unacceptable to us. So we can’t think about the pressure of where we are, and I’m certainly not going to compare the New York kids to the Indianapolis…
