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Slipknot's Clown Scared Of New Stage Lifts

06/02/2015
. (TeamRock Radio) Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan has revealed he deliberately designed their new stage lifts so that they'd scare him. The platforms are hydraulic rather than electric, like their previous ones, meaning they move faster and more dangerously.

Clown tells Rolling Stone: "They go 15 feet up in the air, and they can spin around forever because the cables are down the middle. They jerk left and right. They slam up and down. And I designed these things because I'm scared of heights.

"That's total Slipknot mandatory thinking - to create something I'm scared of, because it will bring something out of me. So I just get up there and f***ing cross my fingers and go to a happy place and it's scary."

He adds: "You've got to hold on to your life sometimes. You get dizzy. Your sweat collects by your feet and you can slip. It's something you have to respect because it will sh*t-can you in a moment." Read more here.

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