Michael Shawn "Clown" Crahan, (born on September 24, 1969), is a percussionist in Slipknot. He uses a set of deeply tuned toms(drums). He has a height of 5'7". According to Slipknot, he was one of the first band members to wear a mask (he had an old clown mask). He found his mask sitting lonely in a shop one day and he decided "it was right" afterwards, the rest of the band's members started wearing masks.