Slipknot are infamous for the wacky shit they got up to in the early days. While they were touring to promote their ground-breaking debut album, The Nine’s antics were just as wild as their music. Stories of members huffing a dead crow before performing and setting one another on fire are well-known – but one more obscure anecdote is when percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan almost lost an eye on-stage.
“Clown slammed his face into a mic stand,” Slipknot singer Corey Taylor told a crowd during a live Q&A in 2012, “and opened up his face. Not his eye, his face. I look over, and he is stumbling towards the back of the stage and shit is just shooting out of his eyeball.” With a wicked grin, the frontman then adds: “We were playing Eyeless, so the irony is not lost on me.”
