Quote Originally Posted by Magnus Sporrano
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.