Name: | Corky Laing |
Occupation: | Drummer |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | January 26, 1948 |
Age: | 72 |
Country: | Canada |
Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius |
Corky Laing
Brief Info
Drummer with the hard rock band Mountain who has collaborated with a variety of artists, including Meat Loaf.
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Before Fame
He started drumming when he was a child. His first band was The Ink Spots.
Biography
Biography Timeline
Getting his break playing drums for vocal group The Ink Spots in 1961, he later played in a group called Energy, who was produced by Cream collaborator and Laing’s future bandmate Felix Pappalardi. Laing left Energy in 1969 to replace drummer N.D. Smart in a hard rock outfit and heavy metal forerunner Mountain, who, with Laing at the drum kit, released three albums and the classic song “Mississippi Queen” between 1970 and 1971.
After the band’s first breakup the following year, Laing and Mountain bandmate Leslie West went on to form blues-rock power trio West, Bruce and Laing with former Cream bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce. West, Bruce and Laing produced two studio albums and a live release before Mountain reformed without Laing in 1974 and released two more albums, Avalanche (with Laing) and the live Twin Peaks (without Laing), only to break up again shortly after. The band would once again reconvene with Laing in 1985 upon the release of Go For Your Life, and Laing has continued with them to this day, most recently working on the band’s 2007 Bob Dylan cover album Masters of War.
In addition to Mountain, he has recorded as the group Cork, with Spin Doctors guitarist/vocalist Eric Schenkman and Noel Redding, formerly bass guitarist of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. In late 1975, he played congas on several tracks on Bo Diddley’s all-star album The 20th Anniversary of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
In late 1977, he recorded an album with John Cale (former Velvet Underground member), Ian Hunter (from Mott the Hoople) and Mick Ronson. This album was not released.
In 1991, he was featured on Men Without Hats’s cover version of The Beatles’s song “I Am the Walrus” on drums. This is available on the Sideways album.
In 2003, Laing and Leslie West authored Nantucket Sleighride and Other Mountain on-the-Road Stories, a chronicle of their time with Mountain in its heyday and their careers in the years following.
In 2007, Laing recorded Stick It!, the audio version of his memoirs with Cory Bruyea in Oakville, Ontario. Laing’s interest in education led him to attend the KoSA Music Camp in Vermont for the summer of 2012.
In 2019, he released his autobiography, Letters to Sarah.
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