In article <47d631$kt@eri1.erinet.com>, jstorey@erinet.com (Jeff Storey) wrote:
> Ok... I went to see Gwar in Columbus Last night... and it was > everything I expected and more, but I wondered why "Bob" was on the > back of the t-shirts when the Church was nowhere to be seen... > > Hmmmmmm
There was SUPPOSED to be a sign at the box office saying, "THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS WILL NOT BE APPEARING TONIGHT DUE TO THE WRATH OF "BOB"." Sorry. We didn't know until that morning. We were getting paid too much for what the front lines of GWAR fans ended up being able to comprehend, and too little for what health we would have lost if we'd stayed on. Turns out only one hardcore punk thrashdeath fan in a hundred wants to hear anything but hardcore punk thrashdeath. I'll tell you what, though. GWAR fucking RULZZZZ and they deserve a better audience than the maggots and bohabs they sacrifice every night.
I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE GWAR RAGNAROK SHOW TO ALL SUBGENII FROM SIX TO SIXTY unless loud music and total utter onstage perversion and blasphemy bother you.
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Rev. Ivan Stang (i.stang@metronet.com) proclaimed:
: I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE GWAR RAGNAROK SHOW TO ALL SUBGENII FROM SIX
: TO SIXTY unless loud music and total utter onstage perversion and
: blasphemy bother you.
I like the latter two. If you mean as loud as I think you mean by the first, sorry, I've never been fond of it.
As someone who makes part of his living from his ears, as it is I gotta wear earplugs when I go to a lot of live music, over-amplified for the benifit of folks who've already lost 1/3rd of their hearing by their late 20s.
I've always concidered the concept of adding power to music by over amplification instead of content to be pretty damn pink.
I bet lots of people have no fucking knowledge about music that you can feel all through your body like an earthquake, even if it's as quiet as a whisper.
But then again, maybe I have this all wrong. Maybe this hearing-loss amplification is intentional. A brilliant plot to bring people closer to inner spiritual truths by depriving them of their external sences. As this plot progresses, concerts will also feature laser lights brighter than the sun focused directly into the eyes of all attendees. And cups of tongue-searing reduced habanero-pepper extract will be all you can drink at the bar.
And at last, we will be able to focus on the inner light and music.
-- Frater Frogalogus
* Froggy@neosoft.com ** "The Information Super-Frog" [dibs]*
* Headquarters: alt.sex.hello-kitty. ** "Tounge Of Frog" *
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From: i.stang@metronet.com (Rev. Ivan Stang)
In article <482u60$5lb@uuneo.neosoft.com>, froggy@praline.no.NeoSoft.com
(Carlos May) wrote:
> As someone who makes part of his living from his ears, as it is I
> gotta wear earplugs when I go to a lot of live music, over-amplified
> for the benifit of folks who've already lost 1/3rd of their hearing
> by their late 20s.
>
HUH??? SPEAK UP!!!!
> I've always concidered the concept of adding power to music by over
> amplification instead of content to be pretty damn pink.
Yeah but man, Alice Cooper, man, I was standing right at the stage at their concert in Ft. Worth and they had this pillow fight and this wind machine, and the wind machine blew a goose feather right straight into my ear where it curled up like a plug, only I didn't notice it because I was too hypnotized watching Alice get electrocuted, and THREE WEEKS LATER I was driving down the road and my ear itched and I picked at it and OUT UNCURLED THIS 6-INCH LONG FEATHER FROM NOWHERE. I thought I was in the ZONE until I remembered the concert and the pillow feathers, but MAN!!! It was COOL! And now I hear pidgeons gurgling in my right ear ALL THE TIME.
At least they don't SAY anything, they just gurgle. I'm not CRAZY.
>
> I bet lots of people have no fucking knowledge about music that
> you can feel all through your body like an earthquake, even if
> it's as quiet as a whisper.
Well, if you've been to enough rock concerts, ALL music sounds quiet as a whisper.
>
> But then again, maybe I have this all wrong.
> Maybe this hearing-loss amplification is intentional.
> A brilliant plot to bring people closer to inner spiritual truths
> by depriving them of their external sences.
> As this plot progresses, concerts will also feature laser lights
> brighter than the sun focused directly into the eyes of all
> attendees. And cups of tongue-searing reduced habanero-pepper
> extract will be all you can drink at the bar.
>
Jeez, you must not get out much. You just described the average weekend rave party with smart drinks.
Mark Mothersbaugh was working on a machine that would produce a bass note of such a frequency that it would cause the bowels of everyone in the audience to loosen, making them soil themselves uncontrollably. If we could combine that WITH the retina-scorching lasers, the eardrum-knives, the toxic smoke machine AND the go-go dancers, HELL, Drs. for "Bob" could be bigger than fuckin' X-COPS!!!
Stang
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Copyright 1995 by Rev. Ivan Stang / 1st Orthodox Stangian
MegaFisTemple Lodge of People's Covenant Church of the
Wrath of Dobbs Yeti, Resurrected / The SubGenius Foundation,Inc.
PO Box 140306 Dallas TX 75214 / Fax 214-320-1561 / PRABOB
http://www.subgenius.com -- SubSITE of Slack
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Rev, did you EVER get to hear Sam Fitzsimmon's band, The Motor Morons? If you
didn't, they did cut an album once and I can probably -- with maximum effort --
get you a cut of one of their classics: "Push-Button Transmission," or maybe
"I-95." Great stuff, but now defunct (I think).
Lemme know.
--Jamie
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From: i.stang@metronet.com (Rev. Ivan Stang)
Yeah hell yeah, Sam Fitzsimmons is one of the original Doktors from back in The Day! THE SEVERN INSTITUTE was his handle. The Motor Morons performed at the 3rnd World SubCon in Baltimore in '83 I think it was. Air-guitar to recorded music -- ONLY THE MUSIC IS MADE BY THE MOTOR MORONS USING THEIR VOICES INSTEAD OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. For instance the bass player SINGS, "Dum, dum, dum, be-dum, dum...." And the "drummer" goes, "PAH! Chucka- PAH! chucka-PAH!" and the "lead guitarist" screeches, "DweeeeEEEER-yang-yangyang Buh-WOOOOOooooooo." WHile the onstage band "AIR GUITARS" to it, yes. Quite a spectacle.
Rev. Ivan "Knows Everybody" Stang
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From: sanders@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Keith Sanders)
>
> Mark Mothersbaugh was working on a machine that would produce a bass note
> of such a frequency that it would cause the bowels of everyone in the
> audience to loosen, making them soil themselves uncontrollably. If we
> could combine that WITH the retina-scorching lasers, the eardrum-knives,
> the toxic smoke machine AND the go-go dancers, HELL, Drs. for "Bob" could
> be bigger than fuckin' X-COPS!!!
>
I always liked the idea of the perfect white-noise machine, which you can turn up to full, 150-dB volume (or whatever), and it still sounds like a quiet, faint hiss-- until you try to talk. Then, no matter how loud you yell, your voice is drowned out by the incredibly loud silence.
I think such a device could be used very effectively in the middle of any hardcore industrial type of show-- roaring mechanical noises and blaring electronic buzzes and whirs building to a climax, then suddenly dropping to a complete and utter silence which would be made a million times cooler by the fact that when the inevitable totally-stoned fan went to yell, "WHOOOOOOO!" in excitement over the transition, NOTHING WOULD COME OUT.
This is when Mothersbaugh's bowel-cleansing machine should be activated. Then every light in the building is extinguished, and two minutes later, when the lights come up, the band is already on the way to the next gig. Pure genius.
Keith
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Newsgroups: alt.music.gwar
Date: 13 Nov 1995 20:39:26 GMT
Organization: The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
In article <47te46$mhj@ra.isisnet.com>, aa343@ccn.cs.dal.ca (Joseph
William Dixon) wrote:
> In a fit of madness ScumDog wrote:
> : The word is also thrown around a lot in Gwar, i have counted many
> : references... including the Ragnarok song, Jack the World, Father Bohab
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Eh? What's this? Who's Father Bohab? [something from the movies or
> stage show? Can't find any references in the albums...]
>
> : (of course), Skulhed's song (I think...) and more.. also i've heard it
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Yup. "Inventions of my secret lab / The Homogenizer / It studies the
> species Bohab / Homo Consumator"
....? You mean you guys didn't KNOW? "BOHAB" is GWAR jargon for a DORKY-type GWAR fan. The whiny, needling fanboys who dare PESTER the MASTERS and interrupt their PLEASURES. A GWAR fan who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. A GWAR fan who acts like a Trekkie or whatnot. It's similar to the SubGenius derogatory term for nerdy SubGenius fans, "BOBBIE." We don't like the Bobbies but we endure them because they spend money on our swag. GWAR regards the Bohabs the same way.
A la the line in Ragnarok, "Are ya gonna be a Bohab, when it's your turn to die?"
>
> [oh yeah, anyone know exactly where the quote from Horror Of YG that's
> in my .sig really comes from? I could swear that I'd first run into it
> many years ago (like, during the reign of the glamidiots, back in the
> mid-80's). Would it be Lovecraft? (the song suggests it, of course)]
>
> | Horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and |
> | mortal terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies |
> |----- Joseph W. Dixon ----|---- aa343@ccn.cs.dal.ca ----|---- Gumby -----|
That line is a quote from Marlon Brando playing Col. Kurtz in the Francis Ford Coppola film, APOCALYPSE NOW.
Incidentally, I just posted a .GIF of Slymenstra doing her fire dance at the Milwaukee show on the newsgroup, alt.binaries.slack. I shot buttloads of video at the first 4 shows of the tour, and I'm gonna be posting binaries from that on a.b.s. during the next week. Mostly these are still frames from the video. I plan also to post a full sync sound mpeg movie of Oderus squirting, another of the fire dance and one of Sexy getting his face bitten off while aborting Slymenstra's baby. These video clips however are MASSIVE files (like 2.5 mb each) so BE PREPARED.
Rev. Ivan ("#1 GWAR fan and Proud Bohab") Stang
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Subject: Re: They Stole it all from KISS
From: i.stang@metronet.com (Rev. Ivan Stang)
Newsgroups: alt.music.gwar
In article <4856q9$fq5@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>, savatage@ix.netcom.com
(Daniel D ) wrote:
Kiss's tunes were 10 times better and they achived a level of sucess
> that GWAR could only hope for in their wettest of wet dreams. They are
> lucky if they sell 5000 albums because they are some of the most
> unlistenable crapola going today, or ever really. Sorry, just calling
> em as I see em.
This guy has absolutely GOT to be kidding. This is like a troll or
something. Must be.
But then... you know, there really are people who equate talent with
record sales to hordes of dumb-asses.
And this guy probably thinks GWAR is just a BAND.
Stang
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From: oderusu1@aol.com (ODERUS U 1)
Subject: Re: They Stole it all from KISS
I would like to send out a personal fuck you to anyone who opposes the
almighty Scumdogs;long may they torcher and slaughter us humans.
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"We were born,to this place
Slaughtering race after race
We were part of the
Scumdogs of the universe":::GWAR
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