Slipknot percussionist, creative mastermind and co-leader Shawn 'Clown' Crahan has discussed his relationship with former bandmate Joey Jordison, who passed away in 2021, in a new interview. Jordison, who left the band in 2013, seemingly had a strained relationship with the rest of Slipknot in the years following his departure, but Clown has suggested he could have feasibly rejoined the 'Knot fold had things turned out differently.
“I don't know, man, it's just like something that you had your whole life, that you lost, when we lost Joey,” Clown tells Knotfest. “And if everybody thinks about it, we really never talk [about that situation]. You can't find anything of us explaining all that, because it's nobody's fucking business, and he's our brother. And who knows, man, there might have been a chance in life. I don't know the future. There might have been a chance we would have gotten back together. I don't know. I can't tell you yes or no, but there's a better chance [of] yes [than] not because of friendship and growing older and talking and being able to understand things. So I just want you to know we're having a really good time with our music and with each other. We're all working really hard right now, really hard. As hard as it is to break in new philosophies, to do this setlist, to make new things, to have new people. It's so much work.”
