Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan reflected on the deaths of Paul Gray and Joey Jordison, noting how sometimes it feels “too much.”
With the death of Paul Gray in 2010, Shawn “Clown” Crahan remained the only founding member of Slipknot still in the band (original vocalist Anders Colsefni left in 1997). Eleven years later, the extended Slipknot family suffered another loss, with the untimely death of beloved and esteemed drummer Joey Jordison, who had previously departed the band in 2013. Crahan admits to Vulture in a new interview that he still misses both of his former bandmates, noting how, sometimes, the pain almost feels too much to bear.
The subject arose as he was asked to name the song that reminds him of Gray and Jordison the most, to which he replied:
“I miss them. You know, it’s too much. I feel bad even doing interviews about our 25th anniversary because most of it lives with them. Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible. Yet here I am. It’s really hard for me. I don’t like that they don’t get to talk. They are the two people you should be talking to right now. Now it’s all memory. And, you know, not that many people try to take Paul from me but a lot of people try to take Joey from me because of the circumstances.”
