GWAR's "Fishfuck"....was that song not genius?!

gwar is fascinating!

GWAR guitarist found dead.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/11/03/breaking-gwar-guitarist-cory-smoot-aka-flattus-maximus-found-dead/

rip smoot

Man, the tweakers that came into the store today rockin GWAR shirts...

The guy had some kind of toothgrinding lockjaw thing happening. And he stank of meth sweat and (according to his girlfriend) a cigar in his pocket. The girl wanted to know if we gave discounts for buying "a lot of CDs" (three, as it turned out) and looked like she was beginning the transformation from 25 years old surfer girl to 300 year old meth lich.

We had gwar in the office for a video thing we did.....out of costume dudes give off a heavy vibe of having been out on the road for way too long, having done and seen bad things

Oh and those costumes....lets just say I don't think they get washed very often, or at all

washing would defeat the theme, i suppose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtGlJ4NtOg

plucking babies heads like daisies

http://www.avclub.com/articles/gwar-covers-kansas,70708/

i feel like oderus urungus wasn't fully committed

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gwar/wartoy.html

http://www.avclub.com/articles/gwar-launches-its-own-bbq-sauce-made-out-of-the-bl,93499/

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-a-k-a-oderus-urungus-reportedly-dead-at-50/

damn.

Dave touched people - sometimes in uncomfortable places. Not like "show me on the doll where he touched you," though he probably would have laughed at that... No. GWAR was (and maybe is, I don't know if they will continue or not) satire set to loud guitars and even louder showmanship, shock rockers who, if you stripped away the show still could play (no, really) and if you stripped away the playing wrote songs that used humor to expose their targets and, sometimes literally, cover them in the blood and shit they deserved.

My first exposure to GWAR was in my parent's house as the band was exposed in one of those video magazines that were all the rage in the pre-internet late '80s-early '90s. I think it was Sheet Metal but it may have been Hard & Heavy.

Saw the band for the first time in 1991, I think, the first show I attended at the Marquee in NYC. I wore a white tee-shirt that was spattered with "blood" that, amazingly enough, was warm and a little salty! Those fucks thought of everything!

To date one of the things I am proudest of was going to Richmond, Virginia where I did an "Unmasked" story on them. I got to talk to them as art school geeks instead of Antarctica aliens, see the compound where they brought their insane ideas to life, and sleep in Slymenstra Hymen's bed.

They were my son Matt's first concert when he was 5 at the Electric Factory in Philly, around Halloween. We stayed towards the back, and when he got upset he couldn't see, we stood him up on a table between us. Thankfully it wasn't the Michael Jackson show, so all we really had to explain was that Hitler was shooting a fire hose at the crowd. A fire hose, yeah! That's the ticket!

That show was such an impact on our family that when I made a mixtape CD for all guests at my wedding a couple years later, it included that favorite at all nuptials, "Sick Of You."

I drank a shot of Maker's Mark even though it is 9 AM and I just took my Vicodin, in honor of Dave. He was creative, insane, brilliant, hilarious and I am glad I got a chance to meet him a few times.

was lucky to see them a couple times...one of the guys i worked with for awhile had been a roadie/member of the slave pit for awhile, when they came through town he got us on the guest list and i got to see my friend get eaten by a giant vagina. great show.

later on we talked to their management and got them to come by on an afternoon before a show and play the game Dance Central, you could tell they were tired as shit but when the camera went on they were totally and and funny...kind of defined them to me, taking time out of their day for no money to come do something silly at a video game magazine...

RIP, it was a hell of a thing you did Dave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHB0xzR8sL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pEgLk3bK9o

Saw the first British tour and had a blast. Ended up covered in so much fake stuff I think I had to trash my clothes the next day. RIP dude.

Well this stinks

http://wtvr.com/2014/06/03/dave-brockie-gwar-lead-singer-died-of-accidental-heroin-overdose/

:/

this sucks

this is kind of touching....GWAR does a surprisingly good version of Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls,then goes into Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" w/verses about their friends and obv Brockie

http://www.avclub.com/video/gwar-covers-pet-shop-boys-211000

That link auto played for me on the bus. Just as a warning to other people who might want to click it. Can't wait to get home to check it out.

GWAR were pretty great Saturday night. The whole setup of the new touring show is perfect.

Finally watched it. Great cover. Thinking about posting it in the Pet Shop Boys thread. Feel like more ilxors would see it there.

I watched this morning...wow both "West End Girls" and "People Who Died" are really great, I kind of got choked up at the end, which is a really weird thing to say about GWAR (unless they were actually physically choking me, which would make more sense)

"Ham on the Bone" fucking rules

i can't really even explain what hte hell Oderus is doing on that chorus, he sounds like a dog barking at a woodpecker

HOW DO YOU HIDE MONEY...FROM A HIPPIE?

PUT IT UNDER THE SOAP!