SLIPKNOT Percussionist CLOWN Discusses Label Imprint

March 15, 2005

SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn Crahan, better-known as Clown or #6, has spoken to Billboard.com about his Big Orange Clown Records label imprint, which falls under the Sanctuary Records umbrella.

"I'm always looking for that song — whether it's classical, country, rap, hip-hop, hardcore, metal, whatever — I'm looking for people who dig into their souls and they mean it," he told Billboard.com. "If they do, I'm going to be involved, because they might write that song that will for one minute make the world take a second to think about it and maybe bring on change."

Clown went directly to SLIPKNOT fans to solicit material, and he says thousands of submissions have poured in from around the world. And while artist-run labels don't have the best track record for success, Clown is confident that he knows talent when he sees it, along with what music fans do and don't like.

"I believe I have a Ph.D. [in this], and that's what all those people in the industry need to know, all those punk-ass A&R guys who sit there at their desks and tell me what they think," he says. "I tour eight or nine months a year talking to the kids, listening to the kids, watching them boo or applaud the openers."

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