Michael Shawn Crahan (Clown)

So I always loved the kids who had the guts to wear the Metallica shirt underneath.

I was too scared of getting beat and I had a mouth and I just had to be good as much as I could.

But man, I'd be like, underneath that Oxford, there's a freaking Metallica shirt and a creeping death.

Here we go.

That's who I wanted maggots to be.

I wanted to make music for the people that absolutely needed it if they were put in a situation they didn't care for.

And that meant it was their life, and that's who I wanted to be.

So for instance, we played Iowa State Fairground.

It used to be the biggest fair, one of the biggest fairs in the world.

We finally played there after all my years, and the city of Des Moines so worried that all the black shirts were gonna come to the fair.

And oh no, what's going to happen with this devil music or this heavy, whatever they think it is, okay?

Well, guess what?

The black shirts come in.

They do an aerial.

You can see it filtering in the hog house, moving over to the chicken coop over here by A&W Root Beer.

Look at it.

It's just insane.

just taken over the grounds.

Not one arrest, not one fight, not one death, no one's hurt, nothing, zero.

No cops, nothing.