After dominating the music world with Slipknot and Stone Sour, Corey Taylor decided to branch out and also find time for his own solo projects. Expectedly, he wasn’t a one-man show who played every instrument on stage, so Taylor recorded music and went on tour with other musicians — such as bassist Jason Christopher.
It wasn’t widely publicized at the time, but Christopher was fired from Taylor’s band in 2021. In 2023, Christopher opened up about what led to his departure on his Facebook page. The musician explained how he informed Taylor in August 2021 that he had COVID-19 and would miss the start of the tour. However, since they had rehearsal the day before, Taylor reacted angrily to the fact Christopher showed up at practice knowingly sick. While Christopher explained that he was vaccinated and he didn’t know he had COVID, he apologized to Taylor, nonetheless.
Afterward, Christopher claimed he was ostracized. “Corey, and his entire camp shut me out.” he wrote. “It wasn’t long after that I started to get wind of some people saying I was a Trump supporter, had a fake vaxx card, and tons of other awesome s*** like that.” Furthermore, Christopher claimed he was blackballed from the music industry, before concluding that most of the music he did with Taylor was “absolute garbage.” In a now-deleted Instagram post (via 105.7 The Point), Taylor’s wife, Alicia, claimed Christopher was fired for failing to respect the testing protocols — not because he had COVID.
