"The band is different. But, back then, there was nine guys that wanted to be in the same place, and we made it work."

Percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan had high praise for the band's early contributors and admits that Slipknot aren't as close as they were in the early years.

Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan looks back on the band's "impossible" feat getting on Conan, buying a Des Moines bar, ahead of the band's Dallas show.

After lineup changes and the deaths of Joey Jordison and Paul Gray, Clown says Slipknot “will never be like” how it was in the early days

You hesitate to call a member of Slipknot ‘wistful’, but that’s exactly the word you’d use to describe the mood of Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan in a recent interview with Metal Hammer. The percussionist is now the only remaining original member of the crew and he was talking about the state of Slipknot now,