CHRIS FEHN

'Christopher "Chris" Michael Fehn' was born February 24, 1972 and is one of three percussionists in the metal band Slipknot. Chris uses a Pinocchio style mask, which has been seen in many different colors and styles with the nose of the mask always staying at 7 inches (about 19 cm) long.
Chris was a college football kicker before the start of Slipknot. He does most of the backup vocals together with Shawn "Clown" Crahan, but bassist Paul Gray also performs them in many live songs.
Chris is also a big fan of Norwegian Black Metal music. One of his favorite bands is Dimmu Borgir

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Masks

His rig

Trivia

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Masks

Chris actually owns 5 types of masks which are mostly different colors. His best-known mask is the regular tanned leather mask used during the Iowa tour and videos. Another well known mask is Fehn's red mask used mainly in the Subliminal Verses tour. He briefly used a white mask for the Slipknot album. He is pictured with it on the front cover ''Slipknot'' album.
Chris' mask is most likely based on the masks worn by doctors during the Black Plague, where the nose was filled with herbs to 'protect' the doctor from inhaling the fumes of death.
Another widely discussed influence is the possibly of the mask being based on the mask ''Alex'' wore during the rape scene from the film ''A Clockwork Orange''
A third idea of the origin of the mask also comes from Commedia dell'arte. Italian comedy of the 15th-18th Century. In particular Chris' mask resembles a version of ''Pantalone's'' mask with a phallic nose.
Finally, he may also get his inspiration from Mr Bungle, whom created all kinds of music mixed together and wore masks sometimes, like in "Quote Unquote" and "My ass is on fire".
Chris told a local interviewer backstage at Slipknot's second Ozzfest show: "This mask reflects my comic personality. Plus I chose it for the bondage factor. When you put it on, it takes you to another place. It's very hot, it's very tight, and it hurts — that goes along with the aggression we create."
In a more recent interview in London Fehn claimed that "The smell gets worse, it smells like puke, sweat, and piss."

His rig

Chris uses custom titanium drums that were made by Shawn "Clown" Crahan, a welder and co-member of Slipknot. Chris' drums have the same set-up as Shawn's drums. The only difference between Clown and Chris' sets are that Shawn normally has a scissor lift on his set which goes high into the air. Chris doesn't use the scissor lift because of his fear of heights and Chris uses a different set of drumsticks for a distinguishable sound between the two drummers:

★ 2 Mount toms

★ 1 Floor tom

★ 1 Bass Drum, set up like the floor tom

★ 1 Anheuser-Busch beer keg

★ 1 Baseball bat

★ Vater Hammer sticks or Vic Firth Metal sticks

★ The drums used are manufactured by "Dunnett"

Trivia

★ Chris' second name is pronounced 'Fen' ''not'' Farn.

★ Fehn is a very keen golfer as seen on the DVD, where he is interviewed while playing golf.

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