{"id":806852,"date":"2020-04-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=990513"},"modified":"2020-04-27T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:00:00","slug":"slipknots-corey-taylor-to-auction-off-guitars-for-covid-19-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/slipknots-corey-taylor-to-auction-off-guitars-for-covid-19-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot\u2019s Corey Taylor to Auction Off Guitars for COVID-19 Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/corey-taylor-slipknot-guitar-auction.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/slipknot\/\" id=\"auto-tag_slipknot\" data-tag=\"slipknot\">Slipknot<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/corey-taylor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_corey-taylor\" data-tag=\"corey-taylor\">Corey Taylor<\/a> is auctioning off 13 guitars from his personal collection to raise money for Direct Relief\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\" id=\"auto-tag_covid-19\" data-tag=\"covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> response efforts. The sale is live now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/e\/charity\/corey-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">eBay<\/a> and will run through May 7th at 7 p.m. ET\/4 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The auction will feature a mix of electric guitars, acoustic guitars and bass guitars, all of which Taylor has signed. Highlights include a gold metallic Gibson Memphis Dave Grohl DG-335 (one of just 400 in the world), a Gold Top Gibson Classic Les Paul, a tan Fender acoustic guitar, a pearl blue Gibson Dave Grohl Signature (one of just 200) and a black SDGR bass. Each instrument will come with a case and a certificate of authenticity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with all proceeds from the auction benefiting Direct Relief\u2019s COVID-19 response efforts, eBay will provide a matching donation of up to $1 million to the organization. Direct Relief is a non-profit aiding the delivery of personal protective equipment and other essential items to healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Slipknot released their most recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/slipknot-we-are-not-your-kind-review-867704\/\"><i>We Are Not Your Kind<\/i><\/a>, last August. In March, the group was forced to cancel its Asian tour because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coronavirus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coronavirus\" data-tag=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic. As of now, the band\u2019s Knotfest Roadshow tour is still scheduled to launch May 30th in Syracuse, New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/slipknot-corey-taylor-auction-guitar-covid-19-relief-990513\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slipknot\u2019s Corey Taylor is auctioning off 13 guitars from his personal collection to raise money for Direct Relief\u2019s COVID-19 response efforts. The sale is live now on eBay and will run through May 7th at 7 p.m. ET\/4 p.m. PT. The auction will feature a mix of electric guitars, acoustic guitars and bass guitars, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 21:11:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}