IT SHOULDN’T HAVE WORKED AT ALL!!! Ray was like the Paul Barker of The Doors. You really should’ve cursed John Densmore if you had to get anyone from The Doors.
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE WORKED AT ALL!!! Ray was like the Paul Barker of The Doors. You really should’ve cursed John Densmore if you had to get anyone from The Doors.
Sorry. It was kind of a rage curse. Just a heat-of-the-moment type of thing. He made a song with Skrillex. Skrillex. So, yeah, I cursed him to death and then he died.
I’m sorry he’s dead, don’t get me wrong. But I think anyone reasonable could understand the mindset I was in. If Densmore had done an interpretive dance number with Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler I’d have had the same reaction. Well, no, not really. That’s not a fair comparison. I mean, that’s not nearly as bad as working with Skrillex.
[reply]IT SHOULDN’T HAVE WORKED AT ALL!!! Ray was like the Paul Barker of The Doors. You really should’ve cursed John Densmore if you had to get anyone from The Doors.
Sorry. It was kind of a rage curse. Just a heat-of-the-moment type of thing. He made a song with Skrillex. Skrillex. So, yeah, I cursed him to death and then he died.
I’m sorry he’s dead, don’t get me wrong. But I think anyone reasonable could understand the mindset I was in. If Densmore had done an interpretive dance number with Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler I’d have had the same reaction. Well, no, not really. That’s not a fair comparison. I mean, that’s not nearly as bad as working with Skrillex.[/reply]
Yeah,I saw some thing on PBS where they were showing Skrillex and The Doors recording the song…it gave me major douche chills…
wow Gwar playing two days before Skinny Puppy in NYC. wanna go. I never got to see Brockie even though I am a fan of Gwar, never saw em live 
or the Dave Brockie Experience for that matter
Sorry. It was kind of a rage curse. Just a heat-of-the-moment type of thing. He made a song with Skrillex. Skrillex. So, yeah, I cursed him to death and then he died.
I’m sorry he’s dead, don’t get me wrong. But I think anyone reasonable could understand the mindset I was in. If Densmore had done an interpretive dance number with Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler I’d have had the same reaction. Well, no, not really. That’s not a fair comparison. I mean, that’s not nearly as bad as working with Skrillex.
As much as I wanna go on the “you should’ve cursed the members of Korn for doing an ALBUM with him” tangent, I understand that a sacrifice had to be made. I may not agree with your decision 100%, but you did what you had to do. To me it’s kinda like George killing Lenny at the end of “Of Mice & Men.”
i was apprehensive as well, until i saw the set from the gwar b q. blothar, their “new” singer is Mike Bishop, who was the original Beefcake the Mighty. He also has the most vocal duties out of any character aside from Oderus. When watching this vid, there parts that sounded almost the same as when with oderus, but in other places it sounded weird, not because bishop is a bad vocalist, but because he sings things in a different style, going up high instead of a low bellow like oderus would do on occasion. also, the storyline of oderus just up and leaving and no one knowing where he went is completely in character and also i bet dave would find that hilarious.
the fact that mike bishop is doing vocals now has really made it easier for me to handle the thought of them continuing on without oderus. when they say they want to get back to more of the older style of live shows with alot of “guest” vocalists, this also seems to make alot of sense to me. the last few gwar albums have had almost exclusively oderus on vox and had hardly any guest appearances. seeing slymenstra and sleazy and sexicutioner during a show again, together, was really fucking cool man. it’s really shitty that it took something like this for it to happen, but that won’t stop me from continuing to support them. I don’t expect them all to get normal jobs after spending the last 30 or so years doing this. look at the writing credits for the records and you will see a more than just one or two names.
Gwar is probably my favorite band. I have a chaos wheel tattoo because of them. Dave laughed and said “awesome” when i showed him. My tattoo guy used to roadie for them, so it was easy to get a wheel in their style. I saw them for the first time in 1995, and saw them at least once a year almost every year since, sometimes twice if they had a summer tour as well. I got to see Dave Brockie Experience twice. I have spent more time and money and effort being into them than any other act. I went to a signing and show, against my mother will at 16 years old, setting off a state of forever-trouble. Gwar was the first band that i realized i could go see them more than once on a tour, and promptly drove to chicago still bloodied from the night before for a second round in the pit.
nothing quite like a gwar pit on a slick concrete or marble type floor. struggling not to break your knee or ankle in your boots. super hot venue, icy cold blood/jizz/piss, elbows and knuckles, and a fucking monster on stage, bellowing incoherently as he eviscerates a space pope or crack addled tyrannosaur, while a valkyrie chick does a fire dance and jerry springer is being fed to a spare faring maggot. It doesn’t get any mroe metal than that, sorry to break it to you guys. ALthough it will never be the same, it can still be amazing.
Hail Oderus. Hail Gwar.
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Yeah! Everything he said.
Love the part about slipping on the floor, especially!
The show at the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas last year was absolutely bananas. The venue has an already glossy stone or tile type floor but coat it with a billion gallons of GWAR’s jizz-blood and it may as well be the world’s most deadly, giant sperm-n-slide (that’s an inside nod to the faithful).
also, the storyline of oderus just up and leaving and no one knowing where he went is completely in character and also i bet dave would find that hilarious.
The funniest thing is when Sleazy came out and said that he was going to break character because they lost something and wanted everyone to bow their heads. And when they were all looking down he said ‘cause we dropped a huge crack rock, does anyone see it?’
Brilliant and a fitting tribute.
While I probably haven’t seen them as much as you… maybe 8-9 times now… I can’t wait to see what they do when they come here in December.
The fact that something always went wrong at the shows but Oderus would just talk through it and make jokes about the mishaps was one of my favorite parts and really endeared me to them all.
He’d force out some cheesy one-liner which was obviously a cue for them to activate a giant monster or detonate some blood bomb or something and then they’d be kind of staring and waiting for the next thing to happen. Then Oderus would start yammering all frustrated or repeating his cue line in his over-the-top anunciation of everything. Eventually they’d manage to get whatever it was activated or just carry through it or pretend in spite of the failure.
I don’t know why I loved that so much. I thought it was just way cooler than if everything went flawlessly. I guess maybe it made me appreciate their hard work and dedication even more and those little bits of human failure just made me identify with the band on a more personal level than just “oh, weee, blood!”.
I saw Gwar several times…one time was in this weird old hotel that they converted in to a concert hall in Ft Lauderdale…it was by far the strangest and worst place I’d ever seen a show…there was an orchestra pit in the middle of the room and for some reason they had Gwar play down in the pit…so essentially,unless you were in the first 2 rows you couldn’t see anything…and with Gwar being a very visual band this is not good…I remember people(myself included) just walking across the bars trying to get a peak…the bartenders had just abandoned the bars…people were just walking across them and kicking all the shit off the bars…
I’ll never forget Oderus at about two songs in saying “We have played every imaginable shit-hole across the world and this is by far the most fucked up place we have ever played!!”…it was so fucking retarded…I’ve never seen so many people complaining to staff at the end of a show in my life…that place was the stupidest venue I’ve ever been to…luckily I saw the band several other times properly…
That sounds awful, Queer.
Sounds like the place was set up for cock-fighting and not concerts.
That sounds awful, Queer.
Sounds like the place was set up for cock-fighting and not concerts.
Hahaha,it would have been way more suited for such an event…come to think of it I didn’t use the proper wording when I said “front 2 rows”…there were no “rows”…it was just people mashed together circling around this stupid orchestra pit…it was full retard…
HOLY SMOKES!!! How can anyone knock this? GWAR is pulling out all the stops. It’s a full-blown circus of awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQP3Hx3QLAs
No, GWAR will never be the same without Oderus, but I think perhaps all the supporting actors of the Oderus show of late were kind of just leaving everything to Brockie and just along for the ride (and a heckuva ride it was).
There seems to be a new energy and inspiration with everyone now. Perhaps both out of respect and love of their fallen comrade but also out of a need to prove that they can still do it without him, they are really manning up as a full unit.
I’m sad that Oderus is gone, but I’m actually pretty excited to see what this new GWAR will look like once they slither into town.
That was amazing.
Brockie wasn’t near as spastic in later performances.
He’s doing all kinds of crazy pancake flops on stage in this one.
I wish I could have seen some of those early shows.
Pure magic.
http://www.avclub.com/video/gwar-covers-pet-shop-boys-211000
Gwar soldiers on with a new vocalist. After covering Pet Shop Boys, they cover “People Who Died” with new lyrics. Mike Scaccia gets a shout out.
Enjoy!