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 Name: Shawn Crahan
Number: 6
E-Mail: 6@Slipknot2.com, shawn@slipknot1.com
Facts:
*He's the second percussionist, along with Chris.
*He was a welder before joining the group, and he welded his own drums.
*He has a wife, Chantal, and 3 kids.
*He is co- founder of the group, along with Paul.
*He has a drumkit made of titanium.
*He does most of the interviews.
*He runs slipknot2.
*He has a habit of banging his head against walls.
*He has fractured knuckles, split a collarbone, suffered slipped vertebrae, bruised his pelvic bone, dislocated a shoulder, gotten a concussion, partially severed a finger, and smashed his head often enough to require 22 stitches during performances.
*Sometimes he goes on AIM and chats with fans.
*From what I hear, he is by far the craziest member of Slipknot.
*It is confirmed that Shawn will swtch masks for the next album, and it will definitaly be a clown mask.
*He named his mask "Dude".
*He is 30 years old, the oldest of Slipknot
Mask: Shawn found the mask one day on the clearance counter of a store,so he bought it. Shawn was the first in the group to wear a mask. He wore it to practice one day and the group thought it was tight , so they all started wearing them to rehearsal. Shawn wasactually the first member of the band to wear coveralls. Before they all wore identical outfits, Shawn wore white coveralls with paint splattered on them.
Quote: "I've wanted to be a clown because there's something nice about me, and something pretty twisted as well. If someone stares at me on my way to the stage, I don't get up until they look away first."
I am on a world-domination mission. Slipknot isn't just an average band. It's not just music. It's a way of life and it's the real way of life. When I go on-stage, the rock'n'roll cliché can go die. There's no place for that anymore. My whole deal is, when we've reached everyone and everyone understands, I'm gone. I'm out. I've done it." - Shawn Crahan (Clown masked Percussionist and founding father (#6).
The Crow: Shawn found a dead crow in his driveway, and kept it in a big, commercial pickle jar, and carried it around at shows until it turned to mush. During shows Shawn would open the jar, this would cause him to vomit all over the place and also cause fans to start vomiting all over the place. It was (sic), it was kept in the jar with all the bacteria and flesh eating creatures. It started secreting this brown liquid and became a fine sauce. Some kids broke the jar open and played catch with it for a while and now it's disposed. At one radio interview Shawn took it along and freaked out the radio person who was also afraid of clowns.
Beaver Tail "Rumour" A cop gave Shawn a dead beavers tail because the cop didn't know how to get rid of it. Shawn didn't know what to do with it so on stage he and corey squeezed all the juices out of it into their faces and then they ate it. Afterwards they were throwing up like crazy and asking each other why the fuck they did that.
Safari Club: Shawn owned the "The Safari Club" within Des Moines for a short time (he bought it in January 1997), one of the only places to see new rock and punk acts. As Slipknot got huge though, it became too much to manage and had to be shut down, it later re-opened as Hairy Mary's.
Runaway Club: Shawn was a regular attendee to the "Runway" club for which he paid $7 to enter each time. It was where the people who liked proper music gathered. However within this club Shawn was still disgraced at the number of competing cover bands that would out shine other; more original bands. Crahan did however manage to allow "all aged" shows to take place within the club on Sundays. For a while Shawn's discontent was settled with such bands as Modifidious and Body Pit, however these bands all broke up within a very short space of each other and the metal Scene had once again disappeared. Shawn now had to put up with cover bands once again. At this point Shawn knew he had to do something different and one day the concept of Slipknot came to him.
Shawn Questions and Answers:
Do your kids come to Slipknot shows and what do they think of them? (Sarah)
Yes - my oldest thinks it's too loud. My boy loves the band - he really loves Corey. He is the new clown. My youngest is too young to understand.
A lot of kids in the Slipknot chat room said you are making a new mask. Is this true and if so, what's it like? (Kelvin Williams)
It's true - you'll have to wait but don't worry I was born the Clown.
What do you all wear under your boiler suits? (Luisa Penfold)
Most are nude, some wear underwear and T-shirts.
If Slipknot were on MTV's Celebrity Death match, then who would you flip for a punch' with? (Fakeplasticgirl)
We'd prefer not to be on the show.
Do any of the bands have bad habits, if yes, then who and what?! (Anthony Prica)
We're the 'Knot - we are all fucked up.
Is it true that one of Slipknot is English and has family in Portishead here? (Kym Haynes)
0 is English, but doesn't have family there.
What's your personal favourite song on the album and why? (Luke Mitnes)
"Tattered and Torn" - if you understand it, then you understand the Clown.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? (Laura Taylor)
Nothing.
Instrument:
Drums are made from Titianium (space shuttle material)
2 mounted toms
1 floor tom
1 bass drum turned on it's side
1 empty steel beer keg
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