[reply]Did the lead singer sit in a board room and designate their prospective hair colors for them ala Resevoir Dogs?
“You are Mr Green…”
Definitely!
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Yeah I was trying to figure out what that shirt says also…and how about the guy who is second in from the right…is that some sort of industrial goth Hello Kitty shirt…and don’t forget the oh so edgy Anarchy symbol on his pants…
In-your-face counter-cultural rebellion is pretty much defined in my world by . . . . TRIBAL TATS.
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Yeah, I think everyone was thinking the same thing. It’s such a ridiculous pose. LIke they all gathered around him to listen to the story again about the time he caught a 5 lb trout at Lake Arrowhead.
The only guy in the photo I feel I might be able to connect with is the green haired fella. He looks downright embarrassed to be there and is bored off his mind. You can almost read his thoughts through the computer screen. “Screw this. I think 4-Non-Blondes needs a new drummer. I could be in Laughlin right now.”
The guy on the far right looks to be trying so hard to control the inner rage brought on by a mixture of steroids and homo-erotic suppression…it looks like the singer might be the target of this rage…
I think they all hate the singer (I’m assuming the guy in the chair is the singer).
“Seriously, Brah!?? YOu tell us all to shave the sides of our heads and you come sauntering in looking like Brett-Effing-Michaels with your ‘danna!!! Not cool, Dude!! NOT FRIGGIN’ COOL!!!”
I think they all hate the singer (I’m assuming the guy in the chair is the singer).
“Seriously, Brah!?? YOu tell us all to shave the sides of our heads and you come sauntering in looking like Brett-Effing-Michaels with your ‘danna!!! Not cool, Dude!! NOT FRIGGIN’ COOL!!!”
Gunnar that’s so cruel, that guy is paralysed from the waist down with Bad AIDS
I think they all hate the singer (I’m assuming the guy in the chair is the singer).
“Seriously, Brah!?? YOu tell us all to shave the sides of our heads and you come sauntering in looking like Brett-Effing-Michaels with your ‘danna!!! Not cool, Dude!! NOT FRIGGIN’ COOL!!!”
Hahaha,I love it…the dude’s ‘Know Your Enemy’ t-shirt takes on a whole new meaning…
Bands like that were a dime a dozen in the late '90s early '00s. Colored dreadlocks, eyeliner, piercings, pants and shirts with lots of buckles on them, “shocking” satanic imagery, tuneless industrial/metal. I can almost guarantee their stage set was covered with big metal coils and wires and trash. Every town had at least one, and they never showed up at any shows or club events unless they were actually performing (usually the opener for a touring industrial band like Pigface or KMFDM), and their fanbase consisted only of their close friends and significant others. I remember Alice Cooper making fun of bands like this at the time because they had these crazy looks but none of them knew how to actually write songs. Sometimes they’d try to get press with extreme shock tactics, like the band from Florida that had a fan commit euthanasia at a show.
On the other hand, their girlfriends were always hot and stood right in the front of the stage.
You’re exactly right on that, Rev.
That’s why, although I’m pretty sure I’ve had to have heard this band at some time, I wouldn’t ever be able to distinguish them from Flaw, Godhead, CrazyTown, Cold, Adema, or any of the other 1pm side stage opening acts on Ozzfest 1998-2000. I’d always see them in Guitar World too. Schecter or some company at the time that was scraping the bottom of the barrell for names would have a collage ad showing all these turds and their guitars. Really? I don’t even know who these guys are. Why do I care whose guitar they use. They would always pose really deliberately too. Never actually playing the guitar, but maybe licking the headstock or sitting lotus position with it religiously balanced across their knees like it was the baby Jesus.
All of them looked like they were told the night before that there would be a photo shoot so they ran off to Hot Topic for tight pentagram t-shirts and baggy bondage pants then ran out to get nose and eyebrow piercings to prove their legitimacy.
Oh yeah. I remember them. I think most of them are working at 7-11 now.
I guess this was also around the peak of Limp Bizkit and Mudvayne, so everyone thought they had to wear silly Halloween stuff or at least glow in the dark.
If I didn’t know any better, I would say they were Cleopatra’s newest act. Damn, the key to staying 16 forever is getting a record contract…
The guy on the far right looks to be trying so hard to control the inner rage brought on by a mixture of steroids and homo-erotic suppression…it looks like the singer might be the target of this rage…
Win!
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I guess this was also around the peak of Limp Bizkit and Mudvayne, so everyone thought they had to wear silly Halloween stuff or at least glow in the dark.
Yeah but Bile was actually pretty cool with their halloween shit.
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grmpysmrf
What is up with the Coal Chamber hatred? That’s the only one of them that were any good. And at least their bass players were hot chicks. I don’t see that from Dope or any of the, as Gunnar put it, 1pm second stage Ozzfest acts of the day. Then again, you did have Kittie. I’m embarrassed to say I had their first album when I was 14, although I did meet the singer and got a hug. Maybe it was the Prince inspired velvet shirt I was wearing. 14 til about half way thru 16 were the dark ages for me. Luckily, Black Metal brought me back from the brink. Enter another silly phase of my life. At least I got out of becoming the equivalent of Amlux.
Haha! What, no pics of Lunatic Kandy Kreep?
Also, my fav industrial cover:::
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO5uR3ord-c
What is up with the Coal Chamber hatred?
I don’t hate them. I’m just lumping them in with every other 1998-2001 pile of generic butt bands with all the zippers and vinyl and mesh tops and goofy make up and things that glow and songs that I can’t distinguish from every other band that was around at that time. I don’t hate any of the bands in this thread. How can I hate them when I haven’t the faintest idea who they are or what is supposedly unique about them?
I admit, the two guys in the center of the pic do look kinda generic. But Dez (due on the far left) stood out. At least to me. He doesn’t look like that anymore. He now fronts a band called Devildriver and looks more like a typical metalhead. I’m sure that band would make you miss Coal Chamber. Sad story on how they broke up. One of the few bands torn apart by meth.
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Sweet!! Amlux got a shout out!!!
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grmpysmrf
Sad story on how they broke up. One of the few bands torn apart by meth.
I didn’t know that.
Which of 'em were tweakers?
The only names I remember are Meegs Rascon and Dez Fafara, mainly because the names were unusual and Meegs at the time was BC Rich’s poster bow with all his stupid translucent day-glo Mockingbirds.
I never listened to them but I decided I would never like them when I read an interview with them and Meegs (wearing one of those stupid nose-to-earing chains and looking like a Hot Topic hurricane victim) described their music as SPOOKY-CORE. Seriously? Spooky-core? Uggh!
Spooky Core? Well that made me lose some respect. Mikey “Bug” Cox (drums, left center) and Meegs (guitar, right center) got into meth. Rayna (hot blonde bass player) left after finding God and her replacement Nadja I think joined Meegs and Mikey for the meth craze. I think Jay Gordon from Orgy introduced them all to meth. There was also the infamous fight on stage between Dez and Meegs which was the beginning of the end. I think Meegs went after Dez with his guitar!
Coal Chamber did a mini reunion tour for some australian music festival so I’m guessing they’re all clean. I know Meegs is. He joined Devildriver on stage one night to do Coal Chamber’s breakout hit “Loco.” But that’s the last I heard from them. People used to call them a Korn knockoff. I never got the comparison til I heard Coal Chamber’s last album Dark Days. Sounds like a weaker version of Korn’s album Issues. The only song that didn’t sound like Korn was the first single from the album “Fiend”