Corey McCormick was born on November the 16th in a small town in California called Truckee. He took an early interest in music and art. At the age of 8, Corey and his family moved out of the confines of Truckee and into the colorful, cultured, greater Los Angeles area. Music was all around and Corey began to experiment more with it. In grammar school he took up the trumpet and the piano. The learning process of the instruments came very easily for him, and he eagerly looked for more things to play music on. When he was just thirteen, he picked up a guitar and started teaching himself how to play. Corey would teach himself songs just by listening to them, and quickly began developing his ear. In the middle of his high school career, he studied jazz, and started playing with a couple of his early bands.
Throughout college, he prolifically played in bands and developed his craft. About halfway through school, he picked up an upright bass, and found his musical voice. From that point on, bass guitar became his primary instrument, and a part of his life that would take him all around the world. Over the next six years, Corey and some of his friends from college formed the L.A. based band, The Big Pill. They recorded four records and toured extensively on the warped tour opening up for Ozomatli. At about the same time as the warped tour was winding down, he was working with a D.J. named Joshone on a live hip hop project called Grey Skies. Some songs from the Grey Skies project found there way on to national television on the acclaimed show CSI.
In the early summer of 2003, Corey McCormick graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a degree in classical Bass. That summer proved to be more than interesting for Corey. He began playing with a guitarist named Rafael Moriera (Pink, Rock Star Supernova). They recorded Rafael’s solo debut on Neofusion called Acid Guitar. The pair later formed their own group called Magnetico, witch featured The Big Pill drummer Joey K.
Soon after The Big Pills demise, he started playing bass with a well-known reggae artist named Élan (Interscope Records) and toured throughout Europe and America. Things were starting to get busy. Rock singer Rama Duke (Hollywood) asked Corey to play with him. Then out of the blue at a Magnetico rehearsal, Rafael had received a phone call about an audition with rock legend Chris Cornell. Corey accompanied him on the audition. The years of hard work and dedication paid off, as Corey became Chris Cornell’s Bass Player. This gig has taken him all over the globe, and has allowed him to play in front of Millions of fans. They are about to embark on a summer tour with Linkin Park called Projekt Revolution. Be sure to check them out.
So now Corey has three main projects going on. Magnetico continue to play and write music, and during the off-time with Chris Cornell, they do some touring. There is also a newly formed side band of Chris Cornell’s guitarist Yogi (Chris Cornell, Wallflowers, Buckcherry) drummer Jason Sutter (Chris Cornell, Smash Mouth), and Corey called Run Through The Desert.
Make sure to be on the look out for Corey and the bands he plays with. His style is unique and smooth. His influences range from Miles, to Metallica, Stevie Wonder to Soundgarden, Black Sabbath to Sting and from Bach to Stravinsky.
