![]() Of course, with Slipknot, image is everything – they even look louder than any of their contemporaries. See what we mean about his powers of prediction? You have to consider the things that you absolutely have to do in order to survive.”įor a man whose alter-ego is a nightmarish clown, his survival check-list is a lot less rock’n’roll than one might imagine:ģ) Don’t touch a lot of things in hotels. “You’ve got to be willing to be on the move all the time. “I tell people in this business, you have to be a pirate,” he says down the phone in an instructive, TED Talk tone. ![]() Which, in Slipknot’s case, means their adoring fans, the “maggots”, equal a moshing corona-cluster waiting to happen.īut when we speak, it’s as if Crahan can sense the coming storm. Entering their third decade, the reliably boilersuited Slipknot are still a major concert draw across Europe and the US, with this latest tour running to 19 dates so far.Īfter our interview live music, like everything else, grinds to a halt as coronavirus brings the shutters down on mass gatherings. Twenty-one years on from the release of his band’s eponymous debut album, the 50-year-old has just checked into a hotel in Copenhagen, fresh(ish) from last night’s show in Dortmund. That’s 10 more than the six members who cycled through girl trio Sugababes, and six less than Black Sabbath’s 22 members.Įven given the fact that those masks mean that anybody could be under there, that’s some churn-rate.īut since 2013 percussionist and co-founder Clown – aka Shawn Michael Crahan, aka #6 – has been the last remaining original member. Not that it’s immediately apparent to the casual, non-maggot observer, but masked rockers Slipknot have worked their way through 16 members since their mid-nineties formation in Des Moines, Iowa. ![]()
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