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Name: Joshua \u201cJosh\u201d Brainard Bands:<\/strong> \u201cHe is one of the best guys I have ever met\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Corey Taylor [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name: Joshua \u201cJosh\u201d BrainardNickname:\u00a0Gnar \u2013 Josh used to have a nervous habit of gnawing on his knuckles, so they called him Gnar.Born:\u00a0August 6th, 1974Instrument:\u00a0GuitarMask:\u00a0Originally he wore a black \u2018Executioner\u2019s Mask\u2019. He eventually ended up with a black bondage mask. Bands:1989 \u2013 1991: VeXX1991 \u2013 1993: Inveigh Catharsis1991 \u2013 1994: Modifidious1995 \u2013 1999: Slipknot2001 \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mfkr1.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Nickname:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Gnar \u2013 Josh used to have a nervous habit of gnawing on his knuckles, so they called him Gnar.
Born:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>August 6th, 1974
Instrument:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Guitar
Mask:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Originally he wore a black \u2018Executioner\u2019s Mask\u2019. He eventually ended up with a black bondage mask.<\/p>\n
1989 \u2013 1991: VeXX
1991 \u2013 1993: Inveigh Catharsis
1991 \u2013 1994: Modifidious
1995 \u2013 1999: Slipknot
2001 \u2013 2001: Undone
2003 \u2013 2008: On A Pale Horse
2014 \u2013 present: Deadfront<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the Des Moines\u2019 scene\u2019s guitar legends. He\u2019s been amazing us on guitar since we (me, Paul, and others) were struggling to play \u201cSouth of Heaven\u201d by Slayer. He\u2019s also a really good guy. Very emotional.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Anders Colsefni
Josh joined Slipknot in late August 1995 and left in late January 1999 right after the recording of the band\u2019s self titled album. Josh wrote and recorded all of the songs but Purity on that record but James Root who was his replacement is credited. Josh is pictured on the front cover with his black bondage mask, but the guy inside the booklet is Jim. Josh recorded 3 songs with Vanilla Ice in 2001 for his Bi-Polar album. This also featured Stone Sour\u2019s Roy Mayorga on drums.<\/p>\n