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It's been 3
years now, that our american shockrockers of GWAR had been over here in
Munich. On the other hand, this ain't that long, when you consider, that
the boys had not been present for many years some while ago. But in any
case, noone ever should come along anymore and say, that Gwar are
copying finnish rocker Lordi, what's up to the visual aspect. Because it
is indeed the other way round. - Our satiric Thrash-Metal, Hardcore-Punk
and Shock Rock band was founded in 1985 by artists and musicians at the
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond,Virginia. And apart from
the costumes and make up, Gwar are as similar to Lordi as Right Said
Fred to Motörhead. - Very amusing is another fact, when Lordi once told
me, that it takes them aprox. 3 hours to slip into their outfits. Oderus
Uringus a.k.a. Dave Brockie just told me, if it's needed, it takes Gwar
5 minutes to be ready to go....
Yeah well that's just one
difference. And thanks to 25 year's of practice and experience, Gwar are
doing better in most ways, then the fin's, who's star goes already
slowly down the drain since their victory at the european Songcontest in
2006. Let's start the magic with Munich's local Metalheads Hell Inc, who are introducing here their debutalbum 'Damnation Offering'. This band consists of very young guys, who's oldest member is just about 23 years of age. There is: Gerdi (Vocals), Dani A (bass), Patrick (Git), Basti (Git) and Michi (Drums). Watching them for a little while gives me the feeling, I've seen them somewhere, sometime before. But right now I haven't got a clue, what occassion that was, sorry about that. Never mind, as this Kids seem pretty selfconfident and are probably very happy themselves to be able to support Gwar tonight. The only bad aspect about their appearance is the fact, that not many people are inside the venue yet to check 'em out.
Most of the audiance is still outside the building enjoying the evening sun and a cigarette. But over all, our Backstage Werk ain't sold out anyway. I guess there are aprox. 5 - 600 fans here. At least - inbetween these people checking Hell Inc out, there is this guy with his grey tshirt and the blonde hair, watching Hell Inc's show while enjoying a cold beer. Yeah well, there is something to it with these costumes and masks. And as mentioned before, just in case - it would only take 5 minutes to change over. For Hell Inc. this show
is another step forwards to collect experience and practice for their
mixture of Heavy Metal varieties. Tourmanager Eddie has also asked fans to go to the merchstand to buy a tourbook, which they get signed personally by the band just before the show. Well this fan
rendevouz is happening a little later than planned at 9.45. And Gwar hit
the stage not at 10 p.m. but 30 minutes later. In the frontrow you can
spot all those die hard fans, dressed in white shirts, which get tainted
during the show in red and green and blue. Later on these clothes get
kept as trophies back home. Compared to these shirts, the kids
themselves have got to wash the colour off again off themselves..-
unfortunately :-))) |
To make it short, there ain't much change within the show since last time. Almost all showelements have stayed, exept the Michael Jackson and George Bush deformation, which have been removed out of understandable reasons, I presume. Though I have the feeling something is missing here. If you have a look at the timetable (see above) you'll notice the rather short stage time of just about one hour. One reason therefore could be, that staying for a long time within these costumes must be murder. But in the end it is a little longer showtime as that. |
so what else
to say? A concert of Gwar is comedy pure and most of it beyond good
taste. There is a lot os splatter like in the best horror movie,
combined with 400 liter coloured water. However,in the end it's only
dangerous for one person - the photographer and that's me. Because as
every child knows, the worst poison for a camera is water or any other
wet stuff. So once again, it's gotta be carefully approached in a
respectful distance.
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Gwar are
surely aware of the fact, that much show or too much show can draw
the attention of people away from the music, so they actually do spare
out the showbits at the most important or new songs, like the titletrack
of the new album 'Lust In Space'.
Apart from that
they've gotta be a little careful with some of their kind of humor, as
here in Germany it could go down the wrong throat, as we say so. The
problem is, that not everybody speaks well enough english to understand
the right sense behind all this. |
But most of
the kids don't care anyway. They are only interested in the water battle
of Waterloo ...eh sorry, the Backstage venue here and dance along to the
rhythm of the irrealistic madness of Gwar. |
Last
but not least they are up there a little longer as said, and we do enjoy
the sparkling showever going for hard and heavy, heads off and bye
bye. You can think about Gwar's music whatever you want, but it wouldn't
be the same without this show, and vice versa. And to check out this all
is certainly one experience more including a lot of surreal amusement -
no more no less.... http:// www.myspace.com/gwarofficial |
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