Slipknot’s Clown on discussing the late Joey Jordison: “It’s nobody’s fucking business and he’s our brother”
nme.comSlipknot‘s Clown has opened up about why the band rarely discuss the group’s late drummer Joey Jordison.Jordison, who founded the metal band in 1995 alongside Paul Gray and Shawn “Clown” Crahan, was the band’s drummer up until 2013 when he was fired from the group with the band citing personal reasons.
Jordison later revealed that he suffered from the neurological disease transverse myelitis. He passed away in July 2021 at the age of 46.In an interview with Knotfest, Crahan opened up about his relationship with the late drummer and former bandmate. “I don’t know, man, it’s just like something that you had your whole life, that you lost, when we lost Joey,” he told the publication.He continued: “And if everybody thinks about it, we really never talk [about that situation].
You can’t find anything of us explaining all that, because it’s nobody’s fucking business, and he’s our brother. And who knows, man, there might have been a chance in life.
I don’t know the future. There might have been a chance we would have gotten back together. I don’t know.“I can’t tell you yes or no, but there’s a better chance [of] yes [than] not because of friendship and growing older and talking and being able to understand things.
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