#6 Shawn Crahan

Full Name: Michael Shawn Crahan
Date of Birth: September 24, 1969
Nickname: Clown (previously "Kong")
Equipment:
One 5 piece set of mirror chrome finish timpiniÕs
Empty Beer Keg
Vic Firth American Classic 2B drumsticks

Mask: The original mask was a clown mask, he found it just about 20 years ago, and his meaning for it is "I'm going to fucking kill every motherfucker here! What was the question? The mask? IT represents my death.", in the IOWA era he changed it, it became dark and sinister and is engraved with an upside down pentagram. On the forhead is carved the number 6, which is shawns number in the band, it also features to metal spikes as "horns" and part of the head ripped off reveiling the brain which shawn would cover with blood before he went on stage. He had many variations of this mask. For Vol 3, he has a latest mask, wrapped in medical tape, with smeared blood, reveiling a bloody tumor on the top and of course, the trade mark clown nose. Currently clown has removed the top part of the mask, and now lets his hair hang out.

Side Project: None

About: "I'm a perfect father and a fucking psychopath, ok? No contradiction", perfect line to start off talking about shawn. Shawn is the msot insane person in the band, his hobbies are starting fights with sid on stage, smashing his head through walls, and injuring himself on stage, for a list of his injuries see below. Shawn is married to a women named Chantal, and he has 3 kids. He also used to run slipknot2.com which no longer exists. Shawn likes to weld and actually built his drum set as well as chris's.

Shawns Mom on Shawn: Anders: "She watched a videotape of one of our practices in my basement and had this to say: "Anders looks like a Timber wolf, ready to attack. Shawn, you look like a Silver-back Gorilla. The whole band looks like what I envision to be the band that entices a caveman hunting party into a frenzy before going out to bring down a Mammoth.""

Injuries: 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

Ex-bands/side projects: Not in many bands, mainly occupied with welding and family life.
Heads on the wall :93 - 95 Shawn - Drums Quan - Guitar: This band played four shows with Joey's band, Modifidious.
Slipknot: 1995 - CURRENT