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All the good things come from
up there - in this case it's actually not good but very wet. And I doubt
it, whether this is that good. Got me?! Because there is food colour put
on to it, which stays on your skin for ages. And you are getting all kind
of shades from poison green 'till blood red. A sign at the entrance says, that within this performance, there will be liquid used and spilled on to the audiance within a distance of about 15 feet. But in fact, it then is spilled on to us 'till about 25 feet into the venue and also on me. Beeing pretty frightened, I try at least to protect my baby, while going to shoot some pics of this crazyness. That's why I apologize for the not perfect pic quality here on this review. Because often after taking a pic, I have to turn round within a second to save the camera from getting wet. Photographing under terrible circumstances in any case - this is called. But in the end, the most importatn thing is, my baby stays try and healthy. Me for myself do not worry that much, 'cause water never killed me so far, though in different colours and shades.
Gwar are Americans from
Richmond, Virginia, and they are going now for more than 20 years. And
never ever anybody dares to say, that they are copying Lordi. Because as
the existence already says, they have been on the scene much earlier than
the finnish rockers who probaby adopted GWARs look for themselves. One
thing is for sure, GWAR could never even possibly take part at a similar
contest like the Eurovision Song Contest, because their music is
everything else but surely not commercial and suitable for everybody's
darling. It's not like Lordi's poprock, but rather Hardcore Heavy Metal
with extranged lyrics. Apparently the band has adopted their name from 'God
hat An Awful Racket'. GWAR are: Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie), Balsac
the Jaws of Death (Mike Derks), Flattus Maximus (Cory Smoot), Beefcake the
Mighty (Todd Evans) and Jizmak Da Gusha (Brad Roberts) - former students
from the Virginia Commonwealth University, for whom it all started out as
a musical experiment. Meanwhile GWAR are an institution within the genre,
and they can look back onto seven albums, one EP and one single, and they
even have been nominated for a Grammy award back in 1993.
Hundrets of pints of the
fancy blood are waiting to be spilled onto us. And a GWAR show wouldn't be
a GWAR show without the splatter battle. The true fan even luvs it, put a
white shirt on and stands in front row to get christened and painted.
Afterwards those shirts never get washed again, but beeing collected as
true trophy and a holy relict.
Over all this aprox.
2 hourse splatter show, without supportact by the way here in munich - has
caused many happy and coloured faces, an almost drowned venue and my
jacket, which has got a slight red shade now. And yes, the knowledge, that
Lordi are choirboys compared to the fathers of Horror-Metal, who still
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