Michael Shawn Crahan (Clown)

And I am going to take these sparks and I'm going to fly sparks over the crowd.

I'm going to do it.

You can't stop me.

I know it's Des Moines, Iowa, and I'm probably going to go to jail, but this is what's happening.

So we were just...

We were, you know, the original singer wore a fur that used to be my aunt's, like the shawl.

It had all these minks and he wore it over long underwear.

And then he'd go get Boonesberry wine and gaff tape it up.

And it was scary.

We were slower and we just...

We had a thing and people couldn't move.

And we would always come in through the front.

So we'd start the sampling and everyone would move.

And then we would come in through the front and a clown would show up.

Push your way through the crowd.

And I'd push some biggest guy could just get my hands on his face and go.

Wow.

And he'd be like, turn around, and then he'd go, oh my God, what is this?

And you know, there he would be.

We get on stage, Corey Taylor was at the first show, comes up to me afterwards and he goes, bro, that just changed my life.