Not to date myself, but I recall when half of GWAR was a bunch of guys working on a sci-fi film in the old Milk bottle (sly Richmond in-reference), and the other half was Death Piggy. Used to go to the Milk bottle with Chuck V, drink beer, and watch them work on the props for the movie... mostly paper mache at that point, they got seriously into the molding process later. Chuck would always try and get me to draw gory comic books with them, but I kept turning them down. I even went to the very first Gwar show at the old New Horizons cafe, where the main prop was Joy dishwashing detergent, I recall. Saw them again about a year later at Schaeffer, the first show where they really began to cut loose (missles flying into stage, etc.). After that, I've run into them now and then; the drummer lives down the street from me in quiet Richmond semi-burbs; you can always tell when they're on tour because the grass gets really really long. Last I heard of Chuck, he had left GWAR and was doing moulding in Hollywood. The town, not the cemetary (obscure Richmond reference).

And yeah, Richmond has it's plusses-- mostly that it's really insanely cheap.