For the past three weeks, HeadbangersBlog.com has been celebrating the art and vision of Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan (a.k.a. Clown) with the ongoing guest photo blog "The Eye of a Clown." In addition to providing us with a previously unpublished shot to run every week, Crahan gives us candid insight about what the images represent to him. The more entries we received, the more we realized that Clown's not only a talented artist and an entertaining character, he's also a deep thinker. So we figured it was high time to do a podcast interview with Crahan about the Knot, his photography and his obsessions with sex and death. We planned to post a single 20 to 30 minute interview, as we do with most acts, but Crahan was so direct, honest and confessional that we felt obligated to run the whole hour-long conversation over the next two weeks.
In part one of our Clown podcast, Crahan talks about how pain inspires great art, the bones that have broken on the road supporting Slipknot's new record All Hope is Gone, why it's not so great to have a number one album and how he has taught his son the ropes on the road. The rock n' roll Sensei also discusses the next "Voliminal"-style DVD he's planning to make for Slipknot, the screenplay he's been writing for five years and how filming his father's ashes after he was cremated changed his life for the better.
Click "more" to stream or download the podcast, and come back next week for part 2: Read more...
