GWAR: Tiny Desk Concert

GWAR really just hasn't been the same without sleazy p, slymenstra hymen, and the sexecutioner

I used to know a woman who was dating one of the band members for awhile. It gets way weirder than that.

i love the idea of gwar, and i love that gwar exists, but i do not love listening to gwar

Phallus In Wonderland was actually nominated for a Grammy 

they chainsawed a Jerry doll in effigy when he passed

fascinating rider for their shows:

30 p.s.i. of water for the duration of the concert to operate their "fluid" machines

they also threw jello biafra dressed as bill graham into thier "meat grinder" at the warfield SF after bill/jello admonished the band for not being able to play as well as garcia

If there’s nothing going on, and people are just chilling, you want to get a picture? Sure, no problem. I’ll do it when it’s the right time. But it really started building up when I went out to the GWARBQ in Richmond- it was the one where everyone was gathering to say goodbye to Dave Brockie. That was a real hard one for me and a lot of people dear to me had been dying. And someone like Dave was so unexpected and so stupid! Such a waste! It’s still one of the ones that is the hardest to get over! He and I went way back to the first time I saw GWAR and he was buddies with Winston Smith and he was very educated about art, so he and Winston had a great time. Winston loved GWAR. Watching Winston get thrown into the GWAR meat grinder was always great fun. Even when I had slightly longer hair then I do now, and it was kind of curly, I went on stage at the Warfield as Bill Graham, and a lot of people actually thought I was Bill Graham, and I had another Bill Graham temper tantrum, “You’re all scum! I’ve got your money now! I think this music is shit! They’ll never play as good as Jerry Garcia!”

The picked “Bill Graham” up and threw him in the meat grinder and the crowd went crazy. It was another one of those great GWAR moments. So, at the GWARBQ, I had been up for twenty four hours, I was famished, and there was one selfie after another and I was like, “there has got to be another way to do this.” So, then we go out to the service, and Lamb of God said something, and I did, and then we marched over to this bluff and to send off Dave, they actually did a Viking tribute- I think Dave had already been cremated in a private family service. But they got a boat that they had made to look like a Viking boat and out an Oderus costume in the boot.

 https://www.punknews.org/article/73516/interviews-the-big-talk-with-jell...

I love Gwar but that tiny desk set is certainly not their best work

OK So the girl I was friends with who was dating one of the band members, they were including her in the stage show giving her a
(fake obvs) abortion. Her mom was visiting, so they invited her to join the stage show and give her daughter the fake abortion. She did it! lol. PS both daughter and her mom were dyed in the wool deadheads.

You're not supposed to take this band seriously, that's literally their whole deal. :D

The only thing I know about GWAR is they're Beavis and Butthead's favorite band. That pretty much tells me all I need to know.

>>>You're not supposed to take this band seriously, that's literally their whole deal. :D
 

willows gets it, awesomely Gwar story about your friend and her mom, thanks for sharing.

one of the biggest live music regrets of my life will always b not getting into them when I lived in Richmond and Brockie was still alive but I was too much of an oblivious California jamband and roots music nerd to give them the time of day.

They r a brilliant, hilarious, unique and hard working art collective. 

One of their former bassists, who is now their current lead vocalist, has a Phd in cultural musicology.

I'd recommend dosing and going to see them anytime, clean white t-shirt preferred attire :)