Gwar

[Magnus Sporrano]

Gwar is a metal band that has to be seen to be understood, probaby the 1st shock rock band (excluding Alice Cooper).

Guess you never heard of Iggy Pop & The Stooges, whom Alice borrowed a nice chunk of his shock appeal from. :-)

As for Gwar, well, Wikipedia is your friend. :-)

[mikemisfit]

supposed to be seein gwar in van on sat. am curious how was devil driver?

[Archangel]

Don't want to start a row but Alice is pretty well the originator of it all, going back to mid-sixties. Heavy metal would be introduced by Blue Cheer, copying Alice.

[Buddha]

supposed to be seein gwar in van on sat. am curious how was devil driver?

Devil Driver was the best out of the 3 openers...and they got a GOOD circle pit goin like the good ole days. Reminded me of Anthrax back in the day with Caught in a Mosh

[Buddha]

Guess you never heard of Iggy Pop & The Stooges, whom Alice borrowed a nice chunk of his shock appeal from. :-)

As for Gwar, well, Wikipedia is your friend. :-)

I could agreee with you about Iggy, but if you want to go back even farther, Screamin Lord Sutch could be considered more shock rock and he was around a while before Iggy and the Stooges.

[Archangel]

I could agreee with you about Iggy, but if you want to go back even farther, Screamin Lord Sutch could be considered more shock rock and he was around a while before Iggy and the Stooges.

and also copying Alice...

[NancyMan]

O.K. lads, here's a bit of esoterica fer ya..... Do you know who discovered Alice Cooper? I didna think so. Well you know he comes from the motor city, but he had relocated to L.A. tryin to make a hit. He and his band were playing in an un-named club one evening, when a rock star of some repute wandered in and caught a set. Afterward he approached Alice (Vincent Fournier) and said, "I like what your doing. Why don't you come around to my place about 9 and play a little more for me?" They dutifully showed up at 9 AM and knocked on the door. Our rock star begrudgingly got up and listened to a set. (He'd meant 9PM- they'd got him up in the middle of the night.) He went on to produce their first two albums. (I like em!) But they didn't achieve rock stardom until they moved back to Detroit. Who was that rock star? Frank Zappa!

Cheers
Vincent

[Archangel]

...but even our Vincent, son of missionaries to the Sioux, wouldn't accept being called Alice Cookies.
My pirate buddy just found bootleg footage from that era, scary stuff. Our own Bob Ezrin fixed it up right, though, and made Alice CanCon which boosted his sales.