Gwar

[acotts]

Raise your hand if you've been hosed in the face by The Biledriver.

[edoz]

GWAR was my first concert back in high school. I was out of fluid range, however.

[jamesand]

*hand raised* Like Edoz, out of range. I had grunge inspired flannel to protect.

[xjoex]

Merry Xmas from GWAR!

[davids]

As close as I care to get:

[ElvisMerckx]

Both hands raised. Being from VA and a college student from '87 to '93, I must have seen these guys 15 times. I don't recall a 'bile driver,' but I do recall getting sloppy (so to say) at the shows.

[mnoble485]

I used to say if the music was too loud you must be too old. I guess i got old because I don't have a clue about GWAR. Maybe not a bad thing.

Mike

[acotts]

I saw GWAR in DC last Wednesday. Im still stained.

It was the best concert I have been to since I was 15.

It was an effin' war-zone in the pit....err rather a gwar-zone. It makes me happy that a band as awesome as GWAR can still fill out venue and completely kill it for 25 straight years.

[curtisvill]

Saw them at the 9:30 club did ya? I would have gone but I was in Colorado visiting my parents and skiing. They do put on an amazing show.

John

[R.Liverman]

I remember a friend in high school that went to one of their shows. He was still covered in red, white, and blue paint a week later. Impressive that they've been able to maintain that high a level of intensity for so long.

[Yodelinpol]

I saw Gwar with 30 other people at the old little Cat's Cradle in 1987 when I lived there with my brother for one teenaged summer. I was covered in fake blood, guts and spew. The old Cradle was small so everyone got hit. Gwar was traveling down from Richmond in an old school bus.

That summer I saw the Dickies among other acts at the Cradle too. What a summer of music for a teen skate punk.

PS. Yes the Dickies covered Gigantor.

PPS. David, that is one of my favorite lines of a Magnetic Fields song.(one of my fav all time artists) Funny thing:Steve worried us plenty when he picked up our acoustic guitars in the studio. That is a heavy right hand with lots of rings. But he didn't care when we played on his old gear or smoked cigarettes in front of very expensive mics and Abbey Road limiters/compressors so we didn't complain. I remember banging the shit out of an old 6 string bass through a vintage AC30 to get feed back loops going for background noise on a track. He just sat at the controls and laughed. He told me we could go see Ralph Stanley at the Station Inn if we finished the song. Ralph was great that night.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

[davids]

I never understood the appeal of a cartoon band once I finished laughing at the joke, and certainly not the appeal of getting slimed by a cartoon band.

But shit, I never understood stage diving either. I still remember the first time I saw that: Bradford Ballroom, March 12 1983.

[ElvisMerckx]

I never understood the appeal of a cartoon band once I finished laughing at the joke, and certainly not the appeal of getting slimed by a cartoon band.

I never actually purchased any of their music, but somehow I ended up with a Gwar comic book. Anyway, the shows were a lot of fun. I have fond memories of me and my buddies covered in blood roaming the aisles of 7-eleven at 2am. That was the appeal for me.

[Yodelinpol]

I never understood the appeal of a cartoon band once I finished laughing at the joke, and certainly not the appeal of getting slimed by a cartoon band.

But shit, I never understood stage diving either. I still remember the first time I saw that: Bradford Ballroom, March 12 1983.

Tell me you make an exception for The Archies.

[davids]

Tell me you make an exception for The Archies.

Dude.

[wheelhouse]

I think their appeal is from a certain time in your life. I got a fake ID and got into a show at the 9:30 Club in around 1988, I was a sophomore in high school, and had a blast. A band like that seems to fit that time of your life, and in that manner can stick with you. If I had never heard of them, and was introduced to them today, I would think it was silly and a joke. However, as it stands, it was part of my childhood so they hold a certain place with me.

[acotts]

The 80's DC music scene -- I wish I could have been there. Real life changing stuff.

Where you around when Bad Brains went funny and Fugazi alienated their fan base? I love that stuff.

I saw Goverment Issue about 2 weeks ago. They reunited to support a former band member with cancer. I felt like such a poser. I think I was the only person at that entire show who was seeing them for the first time. I was an interloper at a family reunion of sorts.

back to the topic...

Saw GWAR at the 9:30 club 7 days ago.

Its funny, I have been to a lot of concerts in my life. I forgot how much fun a show could be. It was the most fun I have had since I was 16 and at a NOFX or some other suburban punk show.

It just took me back. It also reminded me how lame standing around at shows and how much fun it is to be part of the experience.

-A