Mick Thomson is the lead guitarist and #7 in the American heavy metal band, Slipknot. He was born on November 3, 1973. He's been a member of the nine-piece band Slipknot for a while now. I know it may seem strange, but Mick Thomson has a fascination with serial killers. His previous job was teaching guitar lessons at Ye Olde Guitar Shop. He hasn't taught people how to play the guitar since 1999 though. That's because he's been a member of Slipknot for quite some time now, and he's definitely been one of their greatest members of all time. Before Slipknot wore coveralls, Mick Thomson dressed up as Little Bo Peep once. Many fans believe that previous Slipknot member Greg Welts was indeed Mick Thomson but with a different mask, however that has been proven to be untrue. I'm guessing that the rest of the Slipknot members told the whole story of that. Mick Thomson has recently left B.C. Rich and is once again using Ibanez. His current Ibanez guitar has the word Seven in the fret inlays. It's equipped with EMG 60 and 81 pickups and factory tuned to Mick's preference of drop B tuning. His new signature model for 2007 does not feature the "seven" inlay although the word "seven" is prominent on the truss rod cover. Before leaving B.C. Rich, his guitar had the word hate in capitalized letters on the 2-5 frets. Mick Thomson has the word "seven" tattooed on his left arm, which is his number in Slipknot. He's the oldest of the rest of the siblings that are in his family. There are 3 other siblings that are in his family. He had two brothers and one sister. Mick Thomson likes cats and has two of his own. He recently toured doing a guitar workshop on his own. Mick Thomson would like to branch out into other genres in the future, such as jazz. In the Volominal DVD Mick Thomson said he is "a big fan of masturbating. It's therapeutic and keeps the body count low." That's just another random fact of Mick Thomson, which is kind of filthy and disgusting to put on a blog to me, but oh well. Originally, Mick Thomson donned a Jason-style hockey mask and painted a dark pea green type of color onto the mask. This can be seen on the cover of their self titled major label debut, "Slipknot". That was shortly after Mick Thomson wore a dark silver leather mask comprised of separate pieces bound with metal rivets, with a nose opening cutout and vertical slats for his mouth. For Volume 3, he switched to a molded latex mask based on the previous design, which had some updated features added to it.