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KISS are a guilty pleasure, Destroyer is a great album, but, man, Gene makes it real fucken hard to be a KISS fan.
People don’t understand, that KISS is all about the show. They are not musicians, they are performers. And they’re good at what they do.
“Great for ruining parties and torturing anyone who’s trying to sleep.”
Hotter than Hell is a great album
Edit: not to mention both Alive albums
I have never liked anything about KISS. But I have a friend who’s a huge fan. Sometimes I wonder if kiss were removed from the universe. Would GWAR ever exist? And that hurts me inside. Cuz I love GWAR.
Gwar would probably not exist without kiss
There also wouldn’t be Lordi without Kiss.
Please to explain?
Mr Lordi from Lordi said that without Kiss there wouldn’t be Lordi.
Ooooh. I thought you meant Lorde.
That’s what I was thinking.
What do you like about GWAR? I think they suck but I love them because they’re theatre nerds who do interesting stuff. I like a couple of their songs but not very much. I would enjoy seeing them live.
KISS, and MAN WITH A MISSION are kind of the same thing. The latter is a Japanese band with wolf masks — I don’t think they’ve been photographed without them. Like KISS before the face reveals in the 90s. All these bands are image and show focused. But MWAM is better than both of them. They also make good music.
I’ve been a GWAR fan since the 80s. My reasons for liking them have changed countless times over the decades.
In 2004 I was forced from the west coast to Virginia. Everything sucked. But then one day I saw a marquee. “Tonight GWAR.”
It suddenly occurred to me that I now lived in the home state of GWAR. I could see them all the time. Things were suddenly looking up.
The last time I saw them was the year Dave died. They did “People who died.” Drug needles and pills dancing around on stage in one of the most tasteless and insensitive displays I have ever seen. And it was everything that was GWAR. It was a truly cathartic moment being at a GWAR concert and being moved to tears of joy.
Years before I was at a different show. I see this guy with some weird hairline thing happening. I walk up. “I couldn’t help but notice your hairline. What’s the story?” “You are going to feel so bad about asking.” “[Dude. You are at a GWAR show. That’s not how this works.] I doubt that.” “I’ve had multiple brain tumors. The scars have messed up my hair.” “That’s cool! So many people digging around in your skull and here you are still standing and going out to shows. I hope that you get to keep doing this.”
GWAR hits you with the shock. It lulls you with the music. It’s not a band. It’s not an art group. It’s all the things. 40+ years of everything.
That’s awesome. It sounds like you like them for the reasons I assumed the fans did. I’ve never been to a GWAR show, but I think I’d enjoy it. I may have been thinking it, but what you said about the guy with the hair line, I feel like you can really be yourself at one of their shows, you’re never gonna be as weird as the band, so everyone is accepted.
I have never seen an altercation at a GWAR show. I have a feeling that anyone even attempting to be a jerk would quickly be checked by everyone around them in a decisive way.
