I stopped to drop something off to Rattking on my way into work, and got 3 tickets to Gwar on Nov 19th at First Ave.

Score! I didn't even know they were still playing!

Now why isn't it Nov yet?

Great show! If you've never been it's REALLY MESSY - don't wear anything you want to keep clean - or keep for that matter. <shrug>

It's all ages, so I'll be in the upstairs part where they serve the booze... Probably behind a glass wall

i didn't think they still played anymore either. do they still have the X-cops project going to? have fun at the show! I'm seeing steve-o from jackass on sunday.

GWAR makes all of us VCU alums proud. You RVA guys out there know who you are. I believe they are still our most esteemed graduates.

What about the PCMs, the UKOs and the TROs?

I guess we should schedule a coming out party?

indeed
I saw them in 89 or so at Dreamerz here in Chicago. One of the most memorable shows EVER. Pure art and inanity. Glad to see they haven't called it quits.
Enjoy the show HereNT. Screw the glass, experience the true essence of GWAR and get 5' within the stage.

I'll always remember the first time I saw the president porking the pope...or was it the other way around? I forget, they both got beheaded at the end anyway. Back then all my room mates and friends just wanted to sit around listening to the Grateful Dead, smoking pot playing nintendovision. I'm glad i always liked getting out of the house.

does AVAIL still tour?
and it was all about Schafer Court...

Don't know about AVAIL. But I do remember them as mere pups when I was hanging out with the Four Walls Falling boys.

Schafer Court....Chili Peppers in '87. Craziest three song free show ever. Mob rules.

Holy sh|t, I forgot about Four Walls Falling.

I missed the Chili Peppers show at VCU, but I did catch one of the free show at George Mason during what I assume was the same week.

Is the Boathouse still a venue?

oh, gwar - i remember seeing those guys in cleveland back in '93 maybe, and the funniest part was grabbing some food with friends of mine after the show. lots of blue hair, tats, and piercings, and covered head to toe in gwar-goo. we got a few looks at the Country Kitchen, hehe.

Hope you saved one of those tickets for me, or else I am gonna have to disown you as my brother again.

Phil

Avail is alive and kicking, they're playing Alley Katz on 10/02

It looks like gwar has a new album out in october "War Party" as i see on there website
i am really glad to see they are still around and makeing albums
although i hear slymenstra hymen isnt with them anymore.. thats kinda sad cause i really enjoyed her scantly clad fire dance WOO HOO!!

sadly, no. she was knocked down a couple of years ago in favor of more parking for that goddamn ballpark. saw my first show there, Ramones in '89. oh, and thanks for bringing up four walls falling, i used to go see them at the king's head back in the day.

aww hell yes, my favorite kind of thread...richmond pride hahahaha
for as much abuse as this city gets from its residents and its past inhabitants, its not too bad...rent is cheap, pbr is in every bar, there's some nice hills to crush your self esteem, and let's not forget how much fun it is to bomb the main street hill heading east towards downtown...that s turn at 9th or 10th and main (where main ends and meets the capital building) is still my favorite place to ride.

but yes avail is still alive and kicking, they just left for tour today with Jericho for a 10 day stint, i'm not sure if they continue after those 10 days or not. Picked up a copy of "front porch stories" last week and its amazing, i still love these guys after all this time.
https://www.fatwreck.com/junk/avail.html

Of course!

Now what should I do with the other one?

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.

ahh yes obscure richmond references are great! I know both of the places you referenced very well... I had a friend two years ago who actually rented an apartment in the dairy lofts and his bedroom window was inside the milk bottle!
Hollywood cemetary is an amazingly beautiful place to go...too bad all those hills are murder on a fixie, but worth it

Not as obscure, but Rockitz, when the main stage was still downstairs and Mark was managing the joint, is still one of my favorite clubs, ever. At least that's the way it seems twenty years later. Holy ****....has it really been that long? Where's my walker?

how long have you been in DC, Schiek?

Little over two years, worked and lived in Minneapolis before that.

right on. I was going to ask if you remembered the Crow Bar, but it was gone by the time you got here. I went to school in Minneapolis, and grew up 15 miles from Rochester.