Slipknot's Clown talks openly about being nominated for a Grammy alongside Mudvayne:

 

"I lost my father on the last tour, and my wife got really sick and almost died and I had to miss some shows, and there were other members of Slipknot that had their crash and burnout on some tours because of health issues, and we had the roughest two and a half years of touring that any band could comprehend. I mean, most bands can't even fathom thinkin' leavin' home. I've got four children and a wife, been married 13 years, and here I am out on the road for two and a half freakin' years. And yet, people wanna judge us for what is and what isn't, but most of them don't even know what touring is all about. We worked so hard to rebuild our name after the Iowa cycle, and get the trust of promoters and lawyers and agents, and all these people that we pissed off on the Iowa cycle because of past management and bad deals, and things like this.

 

 

We only care about the music and the art, we were able to do it, we went out for two and a half years, and we finalized all our debt and all our problems, got to be friends again, made a great record with Rick Rubin, and we end up winning a Grammy to just show ourselves that you work hard, you get paid hard. That's really what it was. We don't buy into all the $h!t. But, when we won that, it made total sense to me because I just don't know very many bands around us...because we're out in the circuit two-and-a-half years, and I see how long your band tours, and I see what kind of show you're puttin' on, ya know? No one slams harder than the 'Knot, no one puts on a show like the 'Knot, so it's like, get out of our way, and stay out of our way, and don't talk $h!t, because we're the real deal, and you can't take that away from us. It just proves that even in the industry, which is so corrupt, and so political, I mean Mudvayne is a Sony band, or an Epic band, they got all the voters within their own company, and we still won. And it just goes to show that people in this business appreciate hard work and the real deal. We'll get tired of hand feeding all of these bands, not that Mudvayne's that band, 'cuz they're not, they're the real deal. They're a great band. But we deserved it and we won it, and I ain't sharin' it, and I ain't apologizing for it because I lost my dad three weeks before our tour was done. I had three weeks to end a two-and-a-half cycle, I could've seen him, and hung out with him. You know, I'll never see him again, so I don't wanna hear from all the naysayers what it takes to be a pro band, 'cuz I know the sacrifice it takes. I've lived it, I've proved it, I've done it, and I'll do it again. It's nothin' new for the 'KNOT. We're the greatest band in the world, and I've always felt that way."

 

 

Source: Metalhammer.co.uk

 

He may scare me but poor him! Go clowny!

Good on the Clown and good on Slipknot as well. They are a true metal band. All these braindead Black Metallers and Death Metallers who talk sh!t about Slipknot, saying that they're not 'real', that they're not a real metal band are just talking out their arses. They don't seem to realise that if it wasnt for Slipknot opening people up to more extreme music then bands like In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, etc would probably only be selling half the records they are now and playing the dingy toilet venues in the UK instead of places like the Astoria, Forum or Hammersmith Apollo....

 

I find it incredibly interesting that none of the aforementioned bands themselves diss Slipknot....