The two original guitarists for Slipknot were Donnie Steele and Josh Brainard (Gnar). Both recorded MFKR, but Donnie only did one live show with the original line up, then was replaced by Mick Thomson. Before Slipknot he was in a band named Bodypit, you may have heard of them! He was in that band with Mick Thomson, Paul Gray, and Anders Colsefini. He left the band due to his religious beliefs. Back when Paul died, Donnie came back to the band to fill in for Paul until his replacement Vman joined, but Donnie stood on the side of the stage so nobody could see him out of respect. If you go back and watch live shows after Paul died you can see Donnie at the beginning of the show talking with the band. The tuning he used through MFKR and Crowz was drop c