{"id":806630,"date":"2020-04-21T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=987698"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:05:48","slug":"social-distancing-with-clown-from-slipknot-poison-ivy-blue-jays-and-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/social-distancing-with-clown-from-slipknot-poison-ivy-blue-jays-and-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing With Clown From Slipknot: Poison Ivy, Blue Jays and Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions<\/a> about these unprecedented times. Slipknot<\/a>\u2019s Clown is currently self-isolating at his home in Iowa as the band promotes their new whiskey, Slipknot No. 9 Iowa Whiskey Reserve, and takes a break from the road. Here\u2019s what he had to say in between cutting brush and building bird feeders.<\/p>\n

What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?<\/strong>
I think I\u2019m going inward more than anything. I have several pet peeves: one of them is wasting food and another one is litter. I spend a lot of time thinking about the humans who are cold, hungry and have nowhere to live. We see it all the time, but now it\u2019s on another level. Yeah. So, I\u2019m spending a lot of time trying to go inward, trying to remember how blessed I am. I have a great family. You couldn\u2019t ask for more than that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to feel the heartbeat and pay attention. \u2026 So I\u2019m trying to be manual. I\u2019m doing nothing but manual work. \u2026 I\u2019ve been reflecting on my daughter\u2019s [Gabrielle Crahan\u2019s] death\u2026 I\u2019ve had a lot of deaths in a short amount of time and my therapist and I agree that I\u2019ve never really had any time to really grieve these people that mean so much to me.<\/p>\n

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I lost my daughter less than a year ago. It\u2019s coming up on a year anniversary. Sorry to bring it up, but it\u2019s real. And the only way that I can get through it is to speak about it now. I haven\u2019t been, but the anniversary of it is next month. And quite honestly, I\u2019m preparing myself. I\u2019m out here with survival gear. I think everybody would laugh at the Clown \u2014 be like, \u2018Look at this guy.\u2019 You know, I FaceTimed my manager one day and he was like, \u2018What the hell?\u2019<\/p>\n

You know, I saw Castaway<\/em> about right when it came out and it changed my whole life. I worry about stuff like that. It doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be an island, man. You could be stuck in Queens for a night or some weird obscure town in Iowa. You just would freak out. I made fire five days ago for the first time in my life [with a knife and kindling]. It was a challenge. It was not easy. \u2026 It\u2019s like the beginning steps of survival, which I\u2019m very interested in. Not because of what we\u2019re going through, but more of a personal journey of understanding.<\/p>\n

Instead of being in a house and in an office, on a plane, on a stage in a bus, blah, blah, blah, blah, right now I\u2019m watching a blue jay get into some peanut butter. [I put together a bird feeder the other day.] For me, it\u2019s all about opening the box and reading the directions, following through and actually succeeding. And right now I\u2019m watching a bird. I hauled the merchandise, I put it together, I hung it, I read it, and now there is a bird and I\u2019m just like, \u2018Oh, my God.\u2019 It\u2019s pretty cool, you know? Hopefully everyone\u2019s got stuff like that.<\/p>\n

What music do you turn to in times of crisis for solace and comfort, and why?<\/strong>
I have always explained to people that music is the only God that I\u2019ve really experienced. It\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s always been there. Never asked questions, never denied me. I don\u2019t even need to hear it to have it. It\u2019s in my head. I hear it in birds, insects.<\/p>\n

So since this all started, I have spent half a day outside with no music and I listened to the Earth\u2019s music \u2014 because there\u2019s a lot of it. And then it gets interrupted with sirens and a bunch of bullshit and you know, then, well, it\u2019s time for some music. So I\u2019ve been starting at the beginning of an artist\u2019s catalog. So the other day, I went to the Who, which is a band that I\u2019ve loved since I was a young man.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to learn more about classical; it finally hit me about five years ago. So I\u2019m really trying to understand the movements and trying to educate myself more on jazz as well. I\u2019ve been playing jazz personally since college, so I\u2019m having more of a grip on that. I\u2019m not like some profound jazz player or anything like that, but I dabble because I love it and it\u2019s a good time. And then John Carpenter \u2014 I\u2019ve been going through his scores while cutting down honeysuckle because it\u2019s trying to choke out my maple.<\/p>\n

Anything else you want to say to your fans right now?<\/strong>
Hey, everybody; I love you. You know, I love each and every one of you as I\u2019m sure you love me. \u2026 Obviously it\u2019s being said, we have to be safe. So knowledge is a gift. It\u2019s something you give, and that\u2019s something that\u2019s being given to us. So you must take it seriously.<\/p>\n

But we also must remember that there are plenty of crazy things from influenza to malaria to random acts of circumstantial events that take people\u2019s lives every day. So with that said, it just means we use those skills that hopefully our parents and the people around us gave us when we were young. You know, wash your hands, don\u2019t wipe your nose, blow your nose, take out the trash, wash your hands again. Don\u2019t make out with this girl \u2014 she\u2019s got a cold.<\/p>\n

There are the tragedies, you know, and, I guess I want to spend more time talking about the positive potential in our world. And that\u2019s why I say: I just love everyone. Hope everyone\u2019s cool. We\u2019re going to get through this.<\/p>\n

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